New printers around my organization mean different default settings than what people are used to. On the Mac side, I had to look into saving Presets and changing the default behavior to make people happy. Duplexing (printing on both sides) by default seems like a great way to save paper but many people don’t care for it or it doesn’t work for professional printing. The copiers also have PIN codes on them to track printing by department. Having to enter this PIN at each print can be quite annoying when the copiers cancel any job that doesn’t include a PIN by default.
To configure the print settings, you start by looking from a print job, not under system preferences. In my example, I opened Safari and went to File, Print… This brings up the quick print screen you see below.
Versions of Microsoft Word, the default paper size is 8.5 by 11 inches. While you probably print most of your letters, reports, and other documents on this size paper, at some point in time you may want to change the page size in Word to use a different size paper. When I go to the Control Panel and hit the Settings button, the paper size is always set at 4x6. It won't allow me to change the paper size to 8x11 What is the problem. I moved the paper size on back of the printer and even reloaded the printer software.
By clicking the down arrow at the end of the printer drop-down, it expands to the full list of options in the print dialog window.
You can see some common printer settings now but a lot more customization is in the bottom drop-down, in this case labeled Safari. Clicking that gives a lot of options to choose from where multiple settings can be configured. The big settings that I have been asked about are printing to only one side instead of both sides by default and including a PIN code with a print job.
To change the 2-sided printing, you’ll find the settings under Printer Features, which will likely be different for each driver. In this case, another drop-down will be listed below and we’ll select Layout. There, we can change Print Type from 2-Sided to 1-Sided.
The next setting for this Konica Minolta is found under Security. I checked the box for Account Track and entered the department’s PIN code. Now to save these two settings that I have configured, I went to the Presets drop-down and chose Save As… (You can’t save over the Standard settings.).
After clicking Save As, a Save Preset As dialog will popup asking you to give the preset a name and whether it should be available on all printers or only this printer.
Now that you have a preset configured with the settings you want, you can choose it from near the top of the print dialog box. Unfortunately, you will have to choose it every time over the Standard settings. If you want a setting to be the new default hold down the Option key when you hit print to set this new preset as the default preset for future print jobs.
In my instance, the preset didn’t quite do the trick for me. Selecting the preset remembered that I only wanted to print one sided and it remembered the PIN code but it didn’t remember the checkbox to use the PIN code.
To fix that problem, I had to access the Mac’s CUPS web interface. To do that, I used Safari and went to http://localhost:631 On the page that comes up, I clicked on the Printers tab and selected the link to my printer. On the right drop-down, I chose the Set Default Options from the menu.
That took me to an Administration tab. Clicking on the Security link, it gave me roughly the same options I saw through the print dialog interface. I switch the Account Track radio button to On and hit the ‘Set Default Options’ button. This prompted for the Mac’s administrator account and password. Upon entering the credentials, the defaults were updated.
Now, when the user goes to print, the dialog defaults to the 1-sided preset that I created and the Account Track checkbox is checked by default. Everything is now working how they want it.
If it was only a matter of wanting to print 1-Sided instead of 2-Sided, I could skip the Presets step altogether and jump into CUPS. From there, I can configure the printer under the Layout tab and set the default to be single sided printing as the default option and this would affect the Standard preset that was previously available in the account.
Sometimes, it's confusing which is the short bond paper size in Microsoft Word? Microsoft Word has many default paper sizes to choose from. It has A4, A5, A6, the legal size which is 8' x 14', etc.. You can even choose or set the paper size you want. You can set it in any sizes. If you're having difficulty which is the actual short bond paper size, it's size is shown in the photo screenshot below.What's the size of short bond paper in Microsoft Word?
The actual short bond paper size in Microsoft Word is 8.5' (inches) x 11' (inches):- 8.5' (inches) is the width - equivalent to 21.59 cm
- 11' (inches) is the height - equivalent to 27.94 cm
How to Choose or Set the 8.5' x 11' as your paper size in Microsoft Word?
Open your Microsoft Word. Go to PAGE LAYOUT -->
Size --> Choose Cant Set Default Layout To 8.5 X 11 In Word For Mac Download
Letter 8 1/2 x 11 in as what you can see in the screenshot below:What if the 8 1/2 x 11 in is not provided in your Microsoft Word?
You can set-up the paper size you want by clicking the More Paper Sizes -->
Paper and then choose Custom Size and change the width (
8.5') and the height (11'