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Offline Barbara348

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Epson XP442 printer Copying/Printing in too large a font.
« on: Monday 30 October 17 15:40 GMT (UK) »
Hi, I'd appreciate some advice please with regard to my printer output.
I bought an Epson XP442 recently and it's been working fine until I got all clever.

I was printing an address label in the labels section of Word 2016 and when the Font window appeared  I adjusted the size of the font from 12 up to 20 as i needed the address to be larger print.

Unfortunately, I've obviously messed something up because when I tried to copy and print an old letter, it printed out in really large text instead of the regular size 12 font.

How can I get the printer output font size back to as it was?

Can anyone help me with this muddle I appear to have got myself into - I really need to be able to copy and print out a couple of important letters for tomorrow if I can.

Thanks in advance for any help/advice.

Barbara.

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Re: Epson XP442 printer Copying/Printing in too large a font.
« Reply #1 on: Monday 30 October 17 18:18 GMT (UK) »
Print  an address label in the labels section of Word 2016 and when the Font window appears adjust the size of the font from 20 to 12??
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Re: Epson XP442 printer Copying/Printing in too large a font.
« Reply #2 on: Monday 30 October 17 18:21 GMT (UK) »
I'm no expert on printers but it seems unlikely that your printer (when switched off/on) 'remembers' the previous text document settings (labels, font size) and applies these even when issued with new ones for a new print/copy job. I could be wrong.

If in doubt, look for a 'factory reset' option on the printer. Otherwise, print a new couple of lines in Word, setting the document size to A4 and the font size to 12 (or whatever). Text printing shouldn't normally interfere with copying/printing unless you're scanning/copying to a PC and printing from it (as a document or PDF) rather than as an image. In Word, set all print options back to 'normal' (A4), font 12 (or whatever), magnification 100%. When printing, check that all 'print' options such as document/image, magnification, etc. are all 'normal'.

In general, it's Windows (or a specific program) that remembers the previous settings rather than the printer which normally just does what the PC tells it to do.

Hope this helps,

Mike


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Re: Epson XP442 printer Copying/Printing in too large a font.
« Reply #3 on: Monday 30 October 17 18:31 GMT (UK) »
That is what I suggested, reverse the last actions.
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Re: Epson XP442 printer Copying/Printing in too large a font.
« Reply #4 on: Monday 30 October 17 20:28 GMT (UK) »
For Hallmark and Mike Morrell.

Thanks very much to you both for your help.

I did as suggested and reversed the original procedure - I didn't think I was going to be able to get it right at first because I couldn't seem to find the font window/menu in the label window but after a right click with mouse it appeared and I changed the font setting back to 12 as the default etc and it seems to have worked.

I've copied and printed a letter off which looks as it should with revised setting, so fingers crossed that all is ok now.

Thanks again both for your help and advice, much appreciated.

Cheers

Barbara.


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