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To designate a default printer, choose Start > Control Panel > Printers and Faxes. Right-click the printer, and then choose Set as Default Printer. To limit printing to only black and white, choose Start > Control Panel > Printer and Faxes. Right-click the printer, and then choose Printing Preferences. Choose the Color tab. Check Print In Grayscale and choose the Black Print Cartridge Only radio button, Click OK. To change the printer settings, keep the document open and select File > Page Setup. The default settings are displayed. You can alter the colors, print quality, paper direction, and margin size for the document that you are printing without changing the default settings.

Printer Test There are several ways to print a test page: Use the Print Test Page option from the printer Use the Print Test Page option from Windows Use the print function of an application Send a file directly to a parallel port printer using the command line To test a printer, first print a test page from the printer, and then print from the computer properties function or from an application. This ensures that the printer is working properly, the driver software is installed and working, and the printer and computer are communicating. Scanner Test Test the scanner by scanning a document. Use the buttons on the device for automatic scanning. Next, initiate scans from the scanner software and make sure that the software opens automatic scan. If the scanned images appear to be the same as the image on the screen, you have successfully completed the installation.

14.3 In the Printers folder, right-click the printer to share, select Properties, and click the Sharing tab. Select Share this printer option and assign the printer a name.

Network print server devices allow many users on a network to access a single printer. A network print server device can manage network printing through either wired or wireless connections. You should consider the advantages and disadvantages of a dedicated PC print server before you install one: An advantage of using a network print server is that the server accepts incoming print jobs from computers, and then frees the computers for other tasks. The print server is always available to the users, unlike a printer shared from a user's computer. A disadvantage of a network print server is that it may not be able to use all of the functions of an all-in-one device.