Tuesday, May 3, 2011

Is Microsoft OneNote kidnapping your print jobs?

While usually we not focus on technical support issues here on the blog Office (that's for the reply Microsoft forums are), you make me shine a fast light on a recurring problem, scratching your heads some of you and write about has caused.

In short, seems to be that OneNote 2010 (or OneNote 2007) captures all your print jobs when you try to use all information from your other programs the problem or send your Web browser to your loyal printer. While you admit to that a great way to paper save this and finally "go green," it no not him or her is laughing a printed report when your boss expects you to the hand and you seem to do.

Until recently, have you was always something from your computer to your printer can print. Now, your print jobs appear suddenly completely bypass your printer and go directly to Microsoft OneNote, where they displayed gescannte images. You really want to go back to things to how things were and have again your print jobs to your actual printer.

Microsoft OneNote has a nifty little utility called the sending to the OneNote printer driver. A printer driver is a small piece of software that guides from a computer to a printer. Usually controls the operating system software, so that it speaks like a computer with hardware devices such as a printer can monitor. In the case of OneNote a special printer driver is installed, allows you to send your print jobs as images in your OneNote notebooks.

The OneNote printer driver was not to override the printer settings and assume that you 2010 to send each print to OneNote. Instead has intended, in the wings, when you want to use it, and take a back seat again, when you're done wait a specific print job to OneNote available send.

However, the OneNote printer driver may have transported accidentally becoming the top dog in one of the following conditions:

Installation of OneNote 2010 or Office 2010 installed no physical printer or currently selected act caused the sending to the OneNote printer driver as the default printer (preferred).
You installed a new physical printer on your computer after installing OneNote 2010 or Office 2010, acts without support of the printer as the default printer.
You sharing your computer with someone else installed OneNote 2010 or Office 2010 and sending to the OneNote printer driver as the default printer to act.
Your printer software is not compatible with your version of the operating system and Windows was to send reset to the OneNote printer driver as the default printer.

Even if you are not really sure how it can be done, it is a simple solution.

Setting a default printer in Windows Control Panel

If the send to OneNote 2010 print driver is marked as shown, print jobs are are sent as images to OneNote.
You have installed a real printer, right click the icon, and then click set as default printer on the shortcut menu.
Your printer is recognized as the preferred printer for future print jobs if it has the check mark icon next to it.

As follows you on any edition of Windows 7 before:

Click Start on the Windows taskbar, click the button.Click on the right side of the start menu click Control Panel.Open Control Panel, click on View devices and printers (if you are in category view), or click devices and printers (when in icon view).Right click the printer icon that represents your physical printer, and then click set as default printer on the shortcut menu.

If you are using Windows Vista, the steps are almost identical:

Click Start on the Windows taskbar, click the button.Click on the right side of the start menu click Control Panel.Open Control Panel, click Printers (if you are in category view), or click on the printer (if you are in the default view).Right click the printer icon that represents your physical printer, and then click set as default printer on the shortcut menu.

If you display an icon not for your actual printer, it is likely that your printer is not correctly installed. Check the website of your printer manufacturer for any updated drivers that are specific to your version of Windows (such as a 64-bit Edition of Windows) and make sure that the printer is properly connected to the computer.

Even if you had a bad impression of the OneNote printer driver all your print jobs in hardware, you are not too quick to dismiss it even after you demote it as standard "Printer". You might be surprised how useful it is to have the opportunity, print certain information directly in OneNote.

Although digital printouts in OneNote image files that you can edit, with the right mouse button, can such pictures in OneNote 2010 and extract the text from them with the command copy text from image . As long as the text in the image is large enough and readable, this works very well. You can then add and use the copied text in your notes or somewhere else in your work.

If you rightly the OneNote printer driver is introduced, a pretty cool feature!  ;-)

Thinking you because, whenever you have a problem technical support, head on over to Microsoft answers - the official support forums for OneNote and Office. It is daily through competent and helpful members monitors the Microsoft MVP community, Microsoft product support services and the Office product teams.

--Michael C. Oldenburg
 


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