To print pages, the printer to be used is selected from a drop-down list on the EscapeE 'eE' iconEscapeE Printing dialog. When the Printing dialog opens, the Printer initially displays the name of the default printer.

Click to expand/collapse hidden textTo change the default printer
1.Choose Printer Setup... from the 'File' menu
or
if you are about to print and have the Printing dialog open already, click Setup... button.
2.The standard Windows 'Print Setup' dialog opens. Select the printer to be used by default: you may either
oChoose a Name from the drop-down list of printers which may be attached to your computer or
oClick the Network... button then navigate to a printer on your network.
3.The other parameters and options presented in the dialog (for example, paper size, source and orientation) depend on the printer chosen. Set these up as appropriate.
4.Click OK.

Further options may be set up in the 'Printer' page of the 'Configuration' dialog: see Configuring the printer defaults.

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Some of the parameters which a printer is to use on a print-run can be set up in more than one place. They may occur, for example, in the original input (e.g. PCL, PS) file, in the 'Printing' and 'Print Setup' dialogs and the 'Printer' Configuration.

Open blue diamond bullet Most (well-behaved) printer-drivers take in-file printer instructions in their stride. Consequently, the following printing parameters are normally taken from the input-files, not the 'Print Setup' dialog:

Paper

Orientation

Input tray

Output bin

Simplex/Duplex

You may, however, override these input-file specified parameters in the Printer configuration:

Input tray

Output bin

Simplex/Duplex

In addition, these input-file specified parameters:

Paper

Orientation

Simplex/Duplex

may be overridden in the Printing dialog (tick 'Use printer parameters for paper and orientation').

These parameters are also taken from the Printing dialog:

From/To page numbers

Copies

Collation

(The number of 'Copies' may be specified on the command line instead, using the /COPIES option).

When the following parameters are not specified in the input file, they are supplied with the default values set up in the Printer configuration:

Paper type

Orientation

Open blue diamond bullet Some printer-drivers, however, are not so well-behaved. Consequently the paper type, duplexing and bin selection that you have applied in the Printer Setup dialog will be used throughout the print-run. If the original input file redefines these parameters during the print-run then the printer-driver ignores them. The command-line option for this is /DRIVERDEFAULTS.
If your printer supports PCL, PDF, Postscript or XPS formats you may avoid such printer-driver problems by using the EscapeE Direct printing option.

Links

Printing

Configuring the printer defaults