Printing

For information about printing to South Hill printers, see South Hill printers. March, 2014:  After installing “SH-Printing” it is then available as any other printing on your computer. To print to the new printing system you just send your print jobs to the “SH-Printing” printer.   The new printer installs with 2-sided printing enabled in the default setting. Follow the directions below to change different printing and finishing options and then saved them. This is how you can send print jobs with stapling and other features.   Mac Printing defaults      In OS X, a group of printing options can be saved as a “preset”. Both one-sided printing and finishing options can be configured for repeated use with pre-sets.  <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Segoe UI',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;"> http://support.apple.com/kb/PH10768   <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Segoe UI',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;">  <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Segoe UI',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;"> • Open a document and click print. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Segoe UI',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;"> • Select “SH-Printing”. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Segoe UI',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;"> • Click “Show Details” if needed. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Segoe UI',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;"> • Click the drop-down menu (usually the name of the program being printed from) to reveal different sets of options. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Segoe UI',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;"> • Select “Layout/Finish”. You can select 1 or 2-sided on the layout pane and stapling options on the finish pane. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Segoe UI',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;"> • Investigate “Paper Tray/Output Tray” for paper tray options. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Segoe UI',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;"> • Once you’ve configured all the settings, click the button next to the word “presets” which is usually called “Default Settings” and select “Save Current Settings as Preset”. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Segoe UI',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;"> • Choose a name for your preset and save the preset “only for this printer.”  <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Segoe UI',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;">  <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Segoe UI',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;"> PC Printing defaults   <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Segoe UI',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;">  <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Segoe UI',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;"> • Click the start menu and then click “devices and printers”. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Segoe UI',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;"> • Right-click on “SH-Printing” and select “printing preferences”. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Segoe UI',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;"> • If you would like to create multiple groups of settings, use the ADD button to the right of the “Favorite Setting” label. Otherwise just make changes to the default settings by continuing below. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Segoe UI',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;"> • On the “Layout” tab, you can change “Print Type” from 2-sided to 1-sided. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Segoe UI',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;"> • On the “Finish” tab, you can select stapling and other finishing options. Firefox - printing PDFs problem The 2013 update to Firefox has a glitch. You need to make the following adjustment to be able to print PDF files from your Mac:

You can disable the Adobe Reader plugin in Firefox and use the Adobe Reader program or Preview instead.
 * Firefox > Preferences > Applications > Adobe PDF document : Use Adobe Reader