Questions tagged [printing]
Printing is a process for reproducing text and image, typically with ink on paper, using a printer or a printing press.
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How can I visualize the file system usage on Windows?
How can I visualize which folders and files are taking up all of the space on my hard drive?
I'm getting some conflicting reports on the size of hard drive contents. Namely what is and isn't there ...
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How to convert a PDF document to PNG?
Is there a free way to convert a PDF document to a PNG image?
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How to get WYSIWYP (print what you see) in a web browser?
When I print a web page from my browser, I expect to get on paper exactly the content I'm seeing in the browser.
To be precise: I expect the browser to render the same page contents the same way, ...
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How to list printer names acceptable for use with lpr?
The lpr man page says a destination printer can be specified with the -P flag.
-P destination[/instance]
Prints files to the named printer.
I have 'added' various printers on local Samba shares ...
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How do I print with the screen stylesheet?
A number of websites that I use have really bad stylesheets for the print media, but their screen stylesheets are quite good.
Is there any way to tell my browser to ignore the print stylesheet and ...
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How is it that laser printers can print so fast nowadays (no warmup time)?
Years ago, I remember printing on a laser printer for the first time in the day took a long time because the fuser had to heat up, but I got a new laser printer recently and it can print in a few ...
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How to convert a webpage to PDF with preserving its look (exactly as on web browser) and text/links?
I'm looking for a way to convert a webpage to PDF, but preserving the webpage's look. Also preserving webpage's text (being selectable), searchable [Generating image screenshot for the webpage would ...
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Can a printer print white color?
I was reading about different color models, when this question hit my mind.
Can the CMYK color model generate white color?
Printers use CMYK color mode. What will happen if I try to print a white ...
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How to resume CUPS printer from command line?
I have printer in CUPS that due to driver problems (HP 1010) from time to time goes into pause.
I would like to write a shell script that will execute once per hour to resume a printer in CUPS. But ...
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Could I save printer's ink/toner by changing the font?
I'm developing a Microsoft Word document that reached more than 200 pages and I want to print it using my Laserjet or my father's Inkjet printer.
I can save paper using both sides of each sheet, ...
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Is it possible to view a page in Firefox using "print" media type?
I'm not talking of the Print Preview - I mean to view the webpage in Firefox "normally", with access to e.g. the F12 Developer Tools, but I want the layout to be the same as if I was printing the page ...
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How can I print out a PDF substituting pixels for blue pixels?
I have no more black ink in my Canon MP560 printer.
All other colors print fine.
I need to print out an online train ticket.
When I print it out, I can't see any of the page that is in black (most ...
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Opening a PDF brings up the Print dialog
I have some PDF's which, when I double-click to open, automatically bring up the Print dialog box in Adobe Reader X. I'm on Windows XP. I think this is because of some code within the PDF itself. Is ...
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How can I print one page enlarged to multiple pages?
Is there a way using Adobe's Reader software to print a single PDF file page enlarged onto several physical pages?
I know there are special "poster" printing packages, and that sometimes a printer ...
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How can I automatically convert all source code files in a folder (recursively) to a single PDF with syntax highlighting?
I would like to convert source code of a few projects to one printable file to save on a usb and print out easily later. How can I do that?
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How to print documents to pictures (gif, bmp etc.) on windows
What is the easiest way to capture the printout of a document in a picture (i.e. GIF, BMP etc.)? Making a screenshot does not help, since the printout is different and larger than the screen. Is there ...
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How can I make Word print a one-page document multiple times on one single sheet?
Office 2007 and 2010 have a setting in the print dialog that allows you to print multiple pages per sheet:
However, when I try to print 4 copies of a single page with 4 pages per sheet, I get 4 pages ...
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lp vs lpr. What to use in case of CUPS and what historical difference?
My Debian distro provide the lp and lpr commands for printing from CUPS.
I am a noob to printing in UNIX but have other tech skills.
I tried to find a difference in man lp and man lpr. It seems that ...
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How to distill / rasterize a PDF in Linux
We have a printer at our office that prints PDF files from a USB stick. It prints most files okay, but it has problems with some, especially ones generated with Latex. Some PDFs it simply refuses to ...
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Is there a simple way to print multiple images on the same page in Mac OS X?
I'm looking for a simple way to print multiple images on the same page. The default image printing function in Windows lets me select how many images I want on each page. How do I do this on the Mac?
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Possible to print to PDF from Mac terminal?
Is it possible to take a file and print it to a PDF using nothing but terminal commands? I am guessing you would somehow make use of the lpr command, but I have yet to discover the correct syntax.
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How can I make Chrome shrink to fit on printing?
I'd like to print a web document on a single page, but Chrome famously doesn't have this feature normally called fit to page or shrink to fit.
Is there a workaround?
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How can I print a textfile on the command prompt in Windows?
How can I print the content of a textfile on the command prompt in Windows?
In Linux I can do this with less textfile.txt, more textfile.txt or cat textfile.txt
What is the command for this in ...
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Two-page view in Word, shouldn't the first page be on the right?
Greetings Superusers,
I'm putting together a lengthy document in Word, and it's going to be printed and bound duplex.
I've put page-numbers "outside" etc, and all is pretty.
The problem is, in the "...
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How to change the Google Chrome default print margins
In Chrome, the default print margins are narrow. I would like the default to be wider.
Is there a way to make them wider?
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How could I save on ink when printing this map?
I need a map of the SMC campus, but I'm really sick of running out of ink after printing one thing and then having to pay ridiculous sums of money to buy more ink.
The map is here:
I would print ...
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Print PDF file without background
Sometimes I need to print a pdf file that has a black background or some heavy
background images, and that sucks up a lot of ink. Is there any
method to remove the background from PDF files before ...
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Split image to multiple pages
I have a large image (80cmx40cm) that I want to print on multiple pages of A4 paper (29,7x21 cm).
Usually I use Gimp as my image processor and I could manually chunk the image, but that would be ...
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Is it possible to invert text and background colors in a PDF when printing?
I have an existing PDF with a totally black background and all text is white.
Is there a way to get the text to print black and the black background to not print at all?
I have Bluebeam and Adobe ...
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Printing an A3 (Word) document on an A4 printer
Is there a way to print an A3 sized document on an A4 printer? So I want 2 A4 sheets per A3/Word page. I can export to pdf / something else if Word can't do this.
(For anyone unfamiliar with A3 and ...
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Print a huge SVG
I use Google Chrome to view a 1178x5408 .svg file. It includes a lot of small "subgraphics" (screenshots of dialogs, connected by arrows .. think "wizard"), the whole thing is created by graphviz.
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How to prevent cells from printing in Excel
How can I prevent the contents of specific cells (or entire row or column) from printing in Excel, while keeping them visible on the screen when I'm editing the file? Ideally I should be able to do ...
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Notepad++ Display Printing Page Count
I have a rather large document i want to print via Notepad++, but i can't get the page count before printing. Is there a way to do it? (Assume standard 8.5"x11" paper)
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How to print (PDF) for book-like binding?
How to print (PDF) for book-like binding?
This means, that pages should be reordered complex way and located on sheets appropriately, according to folding and gathering (into sections or quires)?
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Can you make MS Word display a black background with white text, but print the inverse?
I am documenting some software in MS Word. I want white text on black background when viewing on the computer (it saves eyes and power), but I want black text on white background to save ink in case ...
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Show whitespace characters in printout
I need to render an ASCII file for printing in a way that removes ambiguity if (very unlikely) one decides to type it in and validate the signatures.
I am giving the 8-bit symbol-set QR code as an ...
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How do I print a large page on multiple smaller pages?
How can I print a larger page (A3) on multiple (two) smaller pages (A4)?
This is sometimes called "poster printing", since the objective is to join the smaller printed pages together to form a larger ...
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How can you invert the colors of a PDF?
I need to invert all the colors of a PDF document (background, text, graphics, and images). I want it persistent in the file so the inverted viewing options, that some viewers offer, won't help.
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How to print in black and white when a color ink cartridge is out of ink
I'm getting the following error message in HP Photosmart C7200 series print dialog:
The printer is out of ink.
The following ink cartridges are empty: Magenta. Replace these ink
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VMware Printing vs Hyper-V Printing
In VMware once you connect to your virtual machine, you can access the printers from your host machine. This is a very nice feature, you don't have to setup the printer for your virtual machine. I was ...
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How to print in Grayscale from 'Preview' on MAC OSX?
I can't for my life figure this out?! The accepted answer here isn't helping me.
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Printing large images as multiple A4 sheets using IrfanView?
I have a massive image about 980px wide and 3000+px high. I want to print this on multiple A4 sheets of paper, how can I do this?
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how to print 2 landscape pages on 1 portrait sheet in word 2010?
I have a document that is formatted in landscape, however I would like to save some space by printing 2 landscape sheets per portrait page. Whenever I set 2 pages per sheet option, though, whether I ...
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Poor quality PNG image when printing to PDF in Word 2010
I have a transparent PNG:
The PNG file above was created from an EPS file to a high-resolution PNG, then resized using Photoshop.
I am placing this image into a Word file on a cover page. The cover ...
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Converting a PDF to one with multiple pages per sheet through the command line
Let us say I want slides.pdf to contain 4 slides per page.
I can open a slides.pdf document under evince (the default Ubuntu document viewer)
evince slides.pdf-->Print-->Page Setup--> Pages per ...
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Printing a Microsoft Word document in outline format
I'm currently typing up notes in Microsoft Word using the outline mode, but when I try to print this document it loses the outlining format and reverts to the original document:
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Multi-Page PDF Banner/Poster from PDF [closed]
I'm looking for a utility that will take one large sized PDF, and split it into smaller PDFs for banner/poster printing. Looking for a linux or multi-platform solution.
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My goal is ...
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How to generate a PDF from a series of images?
I have a series of images (a scanned book, actually) that I want to make into a PDF in A4 format.
Why I'm doing this: I'm helping a less computer savvy person in a different country to get a printed ...
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How to correct margins when printing a PDF?
I need to print some mathematical articles. But the margin is too large, so I want to edit it to solve this problem.
One way is converting it to Microsoft Word (I think). But I tried some programs ...
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How to increase image resolution?
I need to obtain a print quality image from an existing image.
The image dimensions are 1024 x 768 pixels, and the print size is 12 inches x 8 inches.
The current resolution is 64 x 64 pixels per ...
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