XP-Canon i9100-PS7 combination

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Lewis_Rosenfeld
Nov 19, 2003
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Lewis_Rosenfeld
Nov 19, 2003
Some of the printer driver options are not available through PS7 but are available through the printer set-up page. Canon thinks this is a PS7 problem. I did not have this problem with W98SE on a previous machine. Has anyone had a similar experience?
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Robert_Barnett
Nov 19, 2003
In general most programs do not offer the options available for your printer in their own printer setup dialog box. There are way too many printers with too many options to do this. This is why they allow you access to some basic things that are available with every printer on the market like setting page orientation, etc. For the more printer specific things you have to access the printers printer drive and set them there.

If you do this from inside a program the changes only apply temporarily. That is until you exit the program. Then the settings revert to their defaults.

If you want settings changes to become the default so you don’t have to fool with it each time you print from each program then go in to the printer driver from Windows Control Panel and make the changes there. Then they become the defaults for all programs.

You don’t have a problem. Just get used to it. As for older versions of Windows, was this Windows 98SE with this printer or another printer? I am sure the maker has some say in how things work too. In general however you do have to access the printer driver itself to make changes.

Robert
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Lewis_Rosenfeld
Nov 20, 2003
Robert, Canon did not see it that way! They said that there was a problem with PS7. To respond to your questions: it was W98SE with this very same printer. In the long run, your philosophical response (make the change from the printer/fax page) is probably the most practical since, certainly, I have no intention of changing the settings (mainly, auto on/off) for every use of the printer or with any other program. Thanks, Robert, for your interest and support.

LEW
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Robert_Barnett
Nov 20, 2003
The changes in the Printer/Fax Control panel option isn’t the only way you can go. You can do it from inside Photoshop. Just pop-up the printer settings dialog box from the file menu and then click on the button up next to the printer name in the drop down box. The printer drive controls will come up for the printer listed in the drop down.

I have not recently seen any program that offer access to the printer specific controls through the programs printer setup dialog box without clicking on the button I mentioned above.

As I said there are just way too many hardware specific options for Adobe to do this. You won’t want Adobe to list an option that isn’t supported by your printer. I suspect this is why there is direct access to the printer drive settings themselves from with the applications printer setup dialog box. Adobe and others do allow you to set things like which printer you going to use, paper orientation, paper size and a few other things. But, print resolution, edge to edge printing and things like that no.

BTW I do have this printer and like it very much.

As for what Canon told you…well the chanced are they don’t know what they are talking about or they miss understood. As for Windows 98SE it is possible that they just by passed the applications printer setup dialog box and went straight to the printers setup dialog box. I suspect if that is what happened that it is more a bug than a feature. Microsoft with Windows 9x OSes was very sloppy.

Robert

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