Re: Canon iP4200

On Wed, 18 Mar 2009 07:58:53 +0000, peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Peter
Ceresole) wrote:

T i m <news@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

So, doing it the Mac way, would any settings done_at_print_time become
the default

Looking with the ancient Epson SC740 I have plugged right now...

Ok .. (I initially thought it may have been a 'Canon / Mac support'
thing but it turns out it wasn't).

In that print dialogue box, there's a 'settings' drop-down which has all
the usual headings.

Yes, as you mentioned and I have now found and tested, thanks.

After you've made your selections, there's a 'save'
option. Which is where you can set your default.

Ah, didn't spot that but it makes sense (once you have found those
fields).

Alternatively you can
just print with your new settings, and it will revert to your previous
defaults the next time you print.

Ok.

I don't remember using this before, but it's an asbsolute piece of cake
to find this stuff, just noodling around.

Maybe. I was trying to help Lynn (especially as I have a similar Canon
printer in the 4000) so re-booted into OSX (for the first time in a
couple of months) to do so. [1]

It's the Mac way; simple and
logical.

Well not to me (us) it obviously isn't?

I'll try to explain the logic here...

As you say, if I actually had actually wanted to print I may well have
found the options I was looking for but I didn't want to print. I
wanted to help Lynn find the options so I did what I (we?) did and
went into the equiv of Control Panel, found the nearly identical Icon
in Printers and Faxes, found the printer but then couldn't find how to
change the PREFERENCES for the printer when in the PREFERENCES area?

Can you see how that might not actually be logical unless you were
used to the (peculiar) 'Mac way'?

And if you never use Cmd-P to print (why ever not?)

Because *I* don't use keyboard shortcuts. Luckily, I don't use or have
to use a computer for work. I have no interest in workflow or
prettyness of the OS itself, I just want to use my computer(s) for the
things I want. That includes games [2], loads of obscure and possibly
obsolete (in the eyes of many here) kit that just happens to still
work and work well (under a different OS). I also (sometimes) like to
play with different OS's (OSX / Linux atm) and so don't really have
the memory to remember all the shortcuts and foibles of all of them.
Finally, as a support Engineer I have probably spent more time
building, upgrading and repairing computers than I have actually using
them for much other than as Web / diagnostic terminals (outside
playing games that is but I don't count that as 'computer use'
per-se).

File->Print gets you to the same place- choices; that's also the Mac
way.

And that's what I resort to if there isn't an obvious print icon on
the app itself (I was in Textedit for this exercise but can't say I
looked for said icon).

HTH. Cheers, T i m ;-)

[1] Which prompted my question about a Desktop access into Bootcamp.
In XP I have an icon on the system tray that lets me easily reboot
into OSX. The nearest equiv I have so far to do the same in reverse is
a poorly named large icon on the desktop (but thanks to Paul R for the
terminal solution).

[2] And always has done, hence why I have a large legacy in both PC
hardware and PC game software I'm not willing to abandon.
.

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