Browser Basics:
Let's Print

Step-by-Step:Printing

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What you will learn:

to change the page setup to print a page or range of pages to print a framed page as shown to print frames separately

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  Start with:   

Before you can print:

1. Check your printer. Does it have paper? Does it have ink/toner? Is it turned on and connected to the computer?

2. Know which printer to choose from the list of printers.
    
3. Display the page My Home Page from your resource files or http://www.jegsworks.com/Lessons/web/start/index.html

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Page Setup

1. With the browser open, from the menu select  File  |  Page Setup... . The Page Setup dialog opens.
    
2. Make changes, if necessary, to match the settings below. (Use your own name where it says Name!)

   Size and Source - for the paper you are using, probably Letter (or A4 in the majority of the world outside the USA).

   Header - &w&bName&bPage &p of &P

   Footer - &u&b&d

   Orientation - Portrait/Vertical

   Margins - 0.75 in. (or 19.05 mm) for all margins (Find out if you can use smaller margins than this and still stay out of the no-print area. Check with your instructor or with your printer's manual.)
    

3. Click on OK. Your settings here will be remembered whenever you print from the browser.

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 Print Preview

1. If you are using IE5.5 or later, from the menu choose  File  |  Print Preview . You can see in the toolbar at the top how many pages it takes to print the whole document.

   

2. Close the preview window by clicking on the Close button.

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Print a whole web page

1. From the menu choose  File  |  Print... . The Print dialog opens.
    
2. Make the following selections:

   Print Range = All

   Copies = 1

   Boxes at bottom are not checked.
    

3. Select a printer from the drop list at the top. The computer in the illustrations has two physical printers installed - a HP DeskJet and a Compaq.

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Printer Properties

1. Click on the Properties button at the upper right of the Print dialog. The dialog for your printer opens.
   
   Your dialog probably looks different from the example here. Each company provides their own dialog for managing their printers.
   
   The Orientation and Media Size should agree with what you set in Page Setup.

     
   

2. Print Quality: For this exercise Draft/Fast is fine.
    
3. Color type: Automatic will print in color if there are colors anywhere on the page.
   
   If you don't wish to print in color, check Black text. Use Grayscale if there are photos on the page but you don't want to print in color. 
    
4. Media: Be sure that your printer is set appropriately for your paper type. 
    
5. Click on OK to return to the Print dialog.
    
6.  Click on the button OK in the Print dialog to print the web page. Two pages will print. Both use the header and footer you set above. The background does not print since we are using the default settings.

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Print range of pages

1. From the menu select  File  |  Print... 
    
2. Choose under Print range to print from 1 to 1:
       
    
3. Click on OK to print. Only the first page should be printed.
    

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Print selection

1. On the page My Home Page, drag from "Types of Places..." down to "Yahoo" to select these lines.
    
2. From the menu select  File  |  Print...  
    
3.  Choose Selection under  Print Range .
    
4.  Click on the OK button to print just the selected material. The same settings for header and footer, color, paper size, etc. are used as before.
   
   Notice that the total number of pages shown in the header refers to the print job rather than the original document.

If you make your selection and then look at Print Preview, you will still see the whole document in the preview window.

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Print framed pages as shown

1. Click on the link World Travel Inc to open a framed page.
    
2. Check Page Setup. Are the settings the same you set above?
    
3. From the menu select  File  |  Print...  and then Properties. Make changes if necessary. This is a new document. You must check the settings for every web page you print, or risk unhappy surprises!
    
   
4. Close the printer dialog and return to the Print dialog. It shows the choices for framed pages in color rather than grayed out since you are now on a framed page. Makes sense!
   
    
5. Choose to print All and As laid out on screen.
    
6. Click on the OK button to print. One page will print.
   
   

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Print framed pages separately

1. Again select  File  |  Print... . Choose to print All and All frames individually to print each frame separately.
    
2. Click on the OK button to print.
   

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Print one frame

1. Click on the link Prices and Packages in the navigation frame to open that page in the frame on the right.
    
2. Click in the frame on the right that now contains the page Prices and Packages. (Don't click on a link on the page!)
    
3. From the menu select  File  |  Print... 
    
4. Choose to print All and only the selected frame. This choice is not available unless you have clicked somewhere on the framed page. It's not selected otherwise!

    You can also print a single frame by right clicking in the frame and choosing Print from the popup menu.
    

5.  Print by clicking the button OK. The document in the frame is printed by itself.