Printing
PSU CC Provide Network printers in each department and some personal printers to its staff, faculties and students for educational purpose and the print is monitored and a print quota allotted to users to control the print

Good Printing Habits

Introduction
Good printing habits are not only good for you but good for the environment as well:
• Learning to be careful about how and what you print can save you time and aggravation: fewer trips to and shorter waits at the printer, and less time spent having to sort through stacks of paper you discover you really didn't need.
• Responsible printing means saving dollars lost in paper and toner when print jobs are abandoned, less wear and tear on printers, and fewer staff hours devoted to printer maintenance.
• Printing only what you need makes PSU saving vital resources.

This document contains general tips as well as those specific to commonly used software applications. If you have discovered other ideas you'd like to share, please send them to admin@psu.edu.sa so they can be added to this article.

General Tips
Here's a good place to start. Following this list of a few simple changes in study and work habits came make a difference.

• Read as much online as possible.
• Don't print until all of your edits are done.
• Use "Print Preview" to see how something will print out.
• Use "Print Preview" to help see how many pages are going to print.
• Use "Print Preview" to select an individual page (or frame, if a browser) to print or identify pages not to print.
• Don't print multiple copies, or to multiple printers.
• Check the print "Queue" before reprinting.
• Check the print "Queue" to know when your item is ready to print and be ready to pick it up.
• When printing more than a couple items, pick them up AS they print, not after several items have been sent.
• Know which printer your item is printing to.
• Print only what you need and use what you print out.
• If you have a problem printing in a public cluster, ask a lab consultant or library staff for assistance.
• Let faculty know when there are problems or issues with their electronic materials.
• Let the Computer Center know when there are problems or issues with their electronic materials.
• Use the printers as an important research/academic tool.


PowerPoint
PowerPoint provides an easy way to make colorful, graphic-laden slide shows that look great projected or viewed on the web. But if you need to print out a PowerPoint presentation, you probably are more interested in the content that flashy backgrounds and colors. Setting the printer configurations properly will not only save paper and toner, but will speed your print job along if its not weighed down with MB of images. For optimum printing, follow these steps next time:
Windows

1. Select File > Print
2. On the Print dialog box, click on Preview. This shows your changes as you select the print settings.
3. Along the toolbar (top of screen), click on the Print What pull-down menu and select "Handouts...". If there is little text on each slide, choose "6 slides per page"; if a bit more, select "3 slides per page" (this allows you to add your comments alongside each slide).
4. Next, click on the Options pull-down menu and choose the Color/Grayscale option. Select Pure Black and White.

Excel
At times, you may only need to print a portion of a spreadsheet. To do so:

1. With your mouse, select the cells you wish to print
2. From the File menu, select Print Area > Set Print Area
3. To check your selection, click on File > Print Preview


Acrobat PDFs
Though PDF documents are often lengthy, there is no need to print the entire thing if you only need a page. Make sure to use the Print Options, selecting Page From/To, allowing you to print the specified page or range of pages. You can also shrink pages to fit.

Another option is to email a document to yourself so that you can read it when and where you need to (using OWA), and not to print it at all. To do this:

1. Open the document you want to attach to an e-mail message
2. Choose File > Send Mail
3. Do one of the following:
• If you’re asked if you want to save changes to the file, click Yes to save the file and send it, or click No to send the original version of the PDF document.
• If you’re notified that the document does not allow changes, click OK to send the original version of the PDF document.
4. If your e-mail application is not open, Acrobat Reader opens it automatically or prompts you to open it. Write your e-mail message in the new message window, and then click Send. Your PDF document is attached automatically to the e-mail that you send.
5. If you really need to print the document, Print as Image. This will Print all mathematical symbols and pictures correctly.

Browsers
Depending on what you are viewing with a browser, it may not be readily apparent how to print only what you want: what you see and what you get may not be the same. Here are a couple of tips when printing with a browser

• If you're interested in only some of the text that you're browsing, don't print it immediately. Consider copying and pasting it into a "holding document", such as a Notepad text file, a Word doc or an email message to yourself. When you've finally collected everything you want, save the file and then print it (if you even need to) in our own "printer-friendly version".
• When browsing, look for "printer-friendly versions" of the web pages, which are becoming more common. These will save time and toner.
• For pages that are done with frames, try this method for Windows/Internet Explorer to print only the frame you want:

1. Place your cursor in the text you want to print
2. Select File > Print Preview
3. On the Print tool bar, a drop-down menu offers the choices: "As laid out on the screen" (WYSISYG), "Only selected frame", and "All frames individually". Select the second option. Only the desired frame should now be displayed.