Set the type of paper in printers

Here you will see all the steps to set the type of paper you use in the printer, if you have any questions write a comment.

Before printing it is necessary to tell the printer what kind of paper to print, so avoid jamming the printer paper and retain it for longer printer.

There are different types of paper, and the printer needs to know what the role is set for printing, so you change the way you print to prevent damaging the paper and in turn damage the printer.

type of paper

All printer settings before printing, you can say what role they will print, simple and above all encourage you to read the product documentation, you can be found in the specifications on how to make configuration easier.

Then we explain the more normal access this setting does not mean that all printers can select the type of paper in the same way, but if such.

The first step is to go to the printer, print devices or printers and faxes. Easily we get this option in configuration computer or start our computer.

printers devices

In this screen we find a way to get to the properties of the printer you want to configure the paper if you are using Windows XP, right click and go to the last option printer properties if you are using windows 7, we go to option 4 from top to bottom and select printer properties.

A popup window where setting process began opens. The printer properties window on top is composed of tabs, this must select the flange 5 is left to right, where it says device configuration.

select paper type

As you can see in the picture, paper format will succeed, in the configuration of the device, a printer image has more than one tray to print, it is normal that only one tray appears in the first option we can make the place setting.