New Article: 3 Ways to Print Pictures with Windows XP

[Guest]

New Article: 3 Ways to Print Pictures with Windows X
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/digitalphotography/learnmore/waystoprint.mspx

Windows XP Community writer Tony Northrup explains how With Windows XP, you
can get fresh prints in these three different ways:

• Instantly print pictures at home.

• Order prints online and pick them up from your local photo lab.

• Order prints online and have them delivered to your home.


You can ask questions or post comments about the article here.

Tony's article has already generated some community interest from a customer
who sent in comments via the private contact us link on the Web site.
The customer said:
In step one, the article states: "In Windows XP, open the folder containing
your pictures." and then step 2 "In the left pane, under Picture Tasks, click
Print Pictures."
ERROR - step two cannot be completed (there are no "Picture Tasks") if the
folder is any folder other than the "My Pictures" folder. Hence if a user has
pictures in a folder other than "My Pictures", this process cannot be used.

Tony's response:
The sidebar changes depending on the types of files in the folder. Explorer
has some algorithm that it uses to determine what to show in the sidebar, but
as long as there are a couple of pictures in the folder, it will show the
Picture Tasks sidebar. If you have a couple of pictures and 50 Word documents
in the folder, it probably won’t show the Picture Tasks sidebar, though
(unless it’s under My Pictures).

The other option for documenting how to start the picture printing wizard is
to have the user Ctrl-click the pictures they want to print, click the File
menu, and then click Print. That’s what I would do, and it works in any
folder. Unfortunately, (many users) have a hard time with Ctrl-clicking, so I
opted to document using the Picture Tasks sidebar instead. Now that I think
about it, I struggled with this point a bit when I was writing it, and
switched from documenting the menu to documenting the sidebar.




Thanks,

Chris Norred
Tech editor

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.

 

[Yves Alarie]

With a HP IV laser printer (black and white), I could make an icon of it on
my desktop and set the printing preferences. Then, I would simply drag the
file I wanted to print over the icon and printing would start immediately.
Can't do this with new color laser printer.
Is there a way to by-pass the printing wizard, simply send the photo file to
the printer with XP?

 

[Guest]

I have problems in the Step "Layout Options". Most of the layout I choose
when printing it took away parts of the pictures (mostly the borders). If the
picture is to big even cut the picture in half.

There are no options to correct the problem.

If any hits I will appriate.

Gjmarti

 

[Guest]

Hi, Gjmarti. This is a problem that photographers have had since they made
the first prints. Print sizes don't have the exact same proportions as the
pictures your digital camera takes.

Cameras take rectangular pictures that are about 50% wider than they are
tall. 4x6 prints are also about 50% wider than they are tall. So, very little
of the picture needs to be cut off to fill the entire print.

However, 8x10" prints are only 25% wider than they are tall. Because your
digital picture and the shape of the paper are different, Windows XP needs to
change the shape of the picture to make it fit your paper. The best way to do
this is to cut off the left and right sides of the picture. As an
alternative, you could print on 8x12" paper, which would show almost your
entire digital picture.

Hope that explanation helps. One other bit of advice: When taking pictures,
plan ahead to have the outside edges of the picture cropped, and leave extra
room around the subject you're photographing. Not only will the left and
right edges of a horizontal picture be cropped during printing, but the frame
usualy covers up about half-an-inch or so of your print.

Tony

 

[Guest]

Tony,

Thank you very much for the explicative and fast help.

I work in Marketing and I print a lot of ads, artwork, etc in the process,
before they go to the newspaper or get printed.

I would let my advertising agency to let spaces around the artworks to
simplify the printing process of them to me.

Again thank you.

Gjmarti

 

[Guest]

I have been reading the different post, but cannot find away to add a
company I want to use, to the Pint Wizard. Also, cannot find a way to post a
new question? Sorry I am new at this.
Puff

 

[Guest]

When I want to print an attached picture .jpeg from an email (outlook
express) I choose the picture printing wizard and then I see all the pictures
seen on the web since a long time; So, it takes time to see the picture I
need to print in the window of the picture printing wizard.
But I can not select them to put it in the bin.
How could I do to erase from my picture printing wizard every picture I seen

 

[John Inzer]

When I want to print an attached picture .jpeg from an
email (outlook express) I choose the picture printing
wizard and then I see all the pictures seen on the web
since a long time; So, it takes time to see the picture I
need to print in the window of the picture printing
wizard.
But I can not select them to put it in the bin.
How could I do to erase from my picture printing wizard
every picture I seen on the web?

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You are seeing Temporary Internet Files.

Running Disk Cleanup to delete Temporary
Internet Files may help:

(310312) Description of the Disk Cleanup
Tool in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=310312

Also the following article explains how to
empty the Temporary Internet Files folder:

(260897) How to Delete the Contents of the
Temporary Internet Files Folder
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=260897

And...the following info previously posted
by MVP Yves Alarie may be useful:

Files downloaded from the internet or e-mail,
may be in a subfolder of your Temporary
Internet Files folder.

The folder name will start with OLK and
there will be a number after OLK. The easiest
way to find this folder is to search for OLK*
and once found open it and see if the files
are there.

Click on Start and Search and then:
All files and folders
More advanced options
Search system folders
Search hidden files and folders
Search subfolders

In the top textbox "All or part..."
type in exactly this OLK*
and click search

This search will take a while but should
return all folders starting with OLK.

Open the folders, change the view to
Thumbnails and see if the unwanted files are
there. If so, just select them and delete. They
will go to your Recycle bin, delete them from
there also. Or, hold the Shift key down when
you delete them in order to prevent them from
going into your Recycle bin.

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