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Printing Secrets, Part II

Last week we talked about using Print Preview to conserve paper. This week, we’ll talk about a huge paper-waster…Microsoft Excel. I wonder how many trees have given their noble lives for the 2,000 attempts to get a spreadsheet all on one page. There’s no need for the print-and-see approach, however, because Microsoft Excel has a [...]

Printing Secrets

Paper isn’t free and ink ain’t cheap so why print something before you know what it’s going to look like on the printed page? I wonder how many pieces of printer paper get thrown away straight from the printer’s output tray simply because the printer didn’t do what was expected. Hmmm. There’s an easy fix [...]

Images – Screen Quality or Print Quality?

Screen Quality vs. Print Quality, is there a difference? Absolutely! Screen quality is 72dpi (dots per inch) whereas print quality is 300dpi. The higher the number, the sharper the image. When you see pictures that seem to be made up of a lot of squares, that’s called pixelated and is the result of increasing an [...]