 | Senior Member with 642 posts. | | Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Ottawa, Canada | | Best tip I have heard of in awhile... I use a colour photo inkjet printer for various tasks.
Instead of constantly changing the settings from printing photos to doing simple draft text, I came across a great idea.
I have installed 5 different printers on my system, all using the same printer driver. But, each printer has its own settings. For example I have:
Epson 750 Photo(draft-black)
Epson 750 Photo(fine-black)
Epson 750 Photo(normal-color)
Epson 750 Photo(fine-color-matte paper)
Epson 750 Photo(photo)
So now, when I print something, I simply select from the above list and don't have to dig into the settings of the printer.
And as another hint, my printer driver software is on a CD. To avoid loading the CD five times, I simply created new printers with basic drivers that came with Win98 and then went into the printers properties and changed the name and the driver while finalizing the settings as well.
Nothing like saving time and energy. | | Distinguished Member with 3,459 posts. | | | | Uh? Do I understand this correctly.......are you saying you have five printers connected to your system??? How are they connected? | | Senior Member with 679 posts. | | Join Date: Jul 1999 Location: Robins AFB, GA Experience: Advanced | | No they are all the same printer. The profiles are just different. That way if he wants to print only black and white, he just has to change the printer selected instead of digging through the setup properties. | | Junior Member with 2 posts. | | Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Alabama | | What a great tip! Now why didn't <b><i>I</i></b> think of that? I am constantly resetting from black text to color, and vice versa. Thanks. | | Senior Member with 1,231 posts. | | Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Weston-super-Mare, England | | damn good idea (excuse my french) | | Guest with n/a posts. | | | | Yea, but wouldn't windows want to install the "different" printers on different ports? Yea, it is cool. You're a frieking genius! I don't use a printer, though, but it's still cool! | | Senior Member with 642 posts. | | Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Ottawa, Canada | | You can install as many printers as you like. And they can all point to LPT1:.
I didn't come up with this idea, but that doesn't mean I'm not a genius. | | Distinguished Member with 8,753 posts. | | Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Not by the sea | | Your all mad.
I've got 26 keyboards(1 for each letter) 5 scanners (photos, inkjet, newspapers, magazine print, other artwork), 2 boxes (one is closer to reach so turns the one I can't reach on) 59 speakers (why not), 2 mice (even right clicks feel right) and 124,000 modems, one for each site I visit.
Methinks monstrous reads too many viz top tips. | | Senior Member with 1,221 posts. | | Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: DC area | | Moby, I can see having two mice, one for each hand. But, 26 keyboards? yr silly!
Yeah, this is a Tips and Tricks post, a quicker way to surf. Use two mouses! | | Senior Member with 315 posts. | | Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: England |
21-Sep-2002, 01:23 PM
#10 | hmmmmm 25 keyboards is too many!
I got 10, one for each finger :P |  THIS THREAD HAS EXPIRED.
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