COMPUTER INTRODUCTORY CLASS

SESSION 4

1.  To set up a printer (There are at least five ways to setup printers, this is one way)

	1.1.  Click Start, point to Settings, select Printers, and then double-click Add Printer.
	1.2.  You will get the Printer Wizard dialog box then click next.
	1.3.  In the next dialog Printer Wizard box it will ask local or network printer. Unless you connected to a network you should choose Local.
	1.4.  In the next dialog Printer Wizard box it shows a list of Manufacturers and for each manufacturer a list of printers. If your printer is there select it.
	1.5.  In the next dialog Printer Wizard box it asks you to select a printer port, and highlights LPT1 Printer Port you should select the LPT1 port for a parallel connection.
	1.6.  The next question asks you if you want your Windows based programs to use this printer as your default printer. If this is the primary printer you want to use when you select Print in any application program, you answer yes.
	1.7.  The last panel of the wizard asks if you want to print a test page. You should say yes to test to see if you added the printer correctly.

2.  To Test your Printer

	2.1.  Double Click on My Computer.
	2.2.  Double Click on Printers Icon.
	2.3.  Right Click on the default printer (in Windows 98, the one with the checkmark).
	2.4.  Click on the Print Test Page button in the Properties box. When the system asks if the Test Page printed OK, say yes. If you say no, the system will take you through a series of troubleshooting steps.

If the printer is properly connected, the Test Page should print. The Test Page is the Windows Logo with information about the software driver about your specific printer.

3.  Question: How do you stop printing a long document if it has already started printing?

	3.1.  Double click on the printer icon in the Task Bar. This will open the Printer dialog box showing the documents in the printer queue.
	3.2.  Right click on the document you want to stop printing. This will bring up a pull down menu where you can either Pause or Cancel the printing of the document you selected.
	3.3.  Remember the process of printing transfers all or a portion of the document at the top of the queue to the printer. s memory. So, the only printing that you can cancel is that portion of the document that has not transferred from the computer to the printer. s memory. If you want to stop the printing immediately, you need to turn off the printer. Some new printers have a cancel button on their console.

4.  Hardware Cabling of the Printer.

Most printers are connected directly to the parallel port (LPT1) on the computer. However, some scanners use the parallel port connection, and have a parallel plug on the scanner for the printer to be connected in series with the scanner.

5.  Using the scanner.

	Most scanners are bundled with programs that read the scanner, manage the scanned files, and allow for cropping, modifying, and converting the scanned images. The program demonstrated was PaperPort, which was bundled with the Visioneer Scanner.
	5.1.  The first thing that you do to connect the scanner to the PaperPort software is to select the source. Clicking on File on the Tool Bar, and selecting Select Source does this.
	5.2.  This will bring up the Select Source dialog box.
	5.3.  You should highlight the scanner (other imaging devices like a digital camera might be in the list), and click the Select button.
	Now you are ready to scan input from the device you selected.
	5.4.  Next you can either click on the Twain icon in PaperPort or click File and select Acquire.
	5.5.  This will bring up the Visioneer Scan Manager where you can select resolution, color, black/white, and size. You can also Scan Page For Faxing and Editing Text OCR (Optical Character Recognition). If you click on the Scan button the scanner should scan the page.
	5.6.  When the scanner is done scanning, close the Visioneer Scan Manager, and you will see a small image bordered in red on the PaperPort desktop.
	5.7.  Now you can save, crop, print, or link to an editor to OCR the image.

	5.7.1.  To save the image, you click on the image you want to save on the PaperPort desktop to select it (give it a red border), click on File and select Export. This will bring up an Export As dialog box, where you can select a name, type of file and a directory to save a copy of the image.
	5.7.2.  To crop the image, you double click on the image this will select the image for editing. To crop go to the dotted rectangle on the left side, click on it, and your cursor should change to crosshairs. Go back to the image, place the crosshairs on the upper left of the portion of the image you want to crop, click and hold and drag the cursor to the bottom right of the portion of the image you want to crop. Release the cursor. A dotted line should outline the area to crop. Click on Edit and select Crop. The portion selected should be the new image.
	5.7.3.  To print, select the image by clicking once on it, click File on the tool Bar and select Print. This should bring up the Print dialog box, where you can print the image.
	5.7.4.  To OCR the image if it is a recipe or a news article, click and hold and drag the image to the MS Word icon at the bottom, and release it. This will convert the scanned text to keystrokes in the MS Word program. Edit the Word document, and file.