Monday, October 15, 2007

Print quality cheat sheet

Quick tip for writers, create a print quality sheet to affix to your printer.

If you read my last post about the Dell All-In-One printer, then you know I made a small page to test out the print quality of the printer when printing text. I decided that was too good of a deal not to keep around, so I snipped it out and used a little bit of glue to affix it by the printer's screen.



This way I can see when I need to what draft vs normal print quality will look like so I can decide on a document by document basis if draft is good enough or if I would really rather have it printed in normal quality printing.

To make this little quality test sheet was easy enough. I just printed out a sheet of paper at draft quality with the first line of text on it.

Writing the second line two spaces down from the first, I erased the first line and put the paper back into the printer. When I printed the second line at normal print it showed up just below the first line.

This printer has photo quality printing as well, so I repeated the above step to write the third line of text and printed it again using the photo quality setting.

This is the best way I know of to compare print quality settings for a printer, and by affixing it to the printer in an easy to see location you will know at a glance what quality you need to be printing something out at.

0 comments: