Printing Instructions for Windows Computers

Before printing a document, be sure that there is at least a .25 inch boarder around your pagewhere no part of your design exists, as well as along folded edges and center lines (Use the rulers and guides in Photoshop and/or Illustrator to double check). This area is known as the "non printable area."

1. Save your document as an Adobe PDF document. DO NOT PRINT FROM ILLUSTRATOR OR PHOTOSHOP.
   
   
2. You must select the proper printers in Windows Control Panel
   - Click on Start
   - Click on "Control Panel"
   - Click on "Printers and Faxes"
   - Click on "File" and then select "Add Printer" from the drop down menu
   - Click the "Next" button
   - On this dialogue box, make sure that that "A Network printer, or a printer attached to another computer" is selected, then click on "Next"
   - On this dialogue box, make sure that "Find a printer in the directory" is selected" then click "Next"
   - Click on the "Find Now" button
   - Click on the "Location" tab on this window. This will alphabetize the printer lisitings by location.
   - Look for the printers located at "MHS-1G" There are two of them. You will need to add both of them. The color printer is the one labeled "Xerox Phaser 7760DN PS" and is the pritner located next to the teacher's workstation. The HP5000N is is a black and white printer that we will use during screen printing.
   
   - When you have completed this, two printers will show up in your printers box. They will be called "MHS-1G-7760-dn-laser-color" and "MHS-1G-5000-laser"
   
   
   
   • Color Prints: Xerox Phaser 7760
   • Mylar Prints: HP 5000N (PRINTING MYLAR SHEETS IS ONLY TO BE DONE ON THE HP 5000N. DO NOT USE MYLAR IN THE XEROX PHASER 7760 PRINTER. MYLAR SHEETS WILL MELT AND DESTROY THE XEROX!)
   • Digital Duplicator: 10.10.20.249
     
     
3. Depending on what size paper you want to print on, you must change the settings of Adobe Acrobat's Print Preferences dialogue box.
   • US Letter for 8.5" x 11" (aka: a normal sheet of paper)
   • Tabloid for 11" x 17" (aka: a long sheet of paper, or the "Big Paper" to some)
     
     
4. Open your PDF document in Adobe Acrobat. (You must change the printer settings before you open Acrobat. Otherwise, your printer settings will not take effect). In the Print Dialogue Box, be sure to set "Page Scaling" to "None"Make sure "Collate" is unchecked
   
   
5. Print.
   
   
6. Collect your print out from the printer.