Printing News – Part 3 – Setting the correct paper size

SETTING THE CORRECT PAPER SIZE

There have been many occasions over the last few weeks of the Canon photocopiers flashing up messages about “User intervention required“.

Generally this means that a document has been sent to the printers as Letter (or other non-standard size) rather than A4.

Please double check that your documents are formatted to the correct paper size – i.e. A4.

To check your page size in Microsoft Word 2007 and 2010 go to :

Page Layout  >> Size >> A4 (21cm x 29.7cm)

Other programs may hid the page size in the menus e.g. File >> Page Setup…

Please do check – especially if you have been sent the document or have downloaded it from a website.  It saves you (and others) time and hassle when it comes to printing out to have the page size set to A4.

ALSO REMEMBER THAT – you can submit documents for printing (from anywhere in the world!) via email attachment.

Send PDF, Word, Excel or Powerpoint documents to :

mobile.print@queens.ox.ac.uk

Then visit the Moffatt Room (within 10 hours) and login to the photocopiers to release the document – after of course selecting your print OPTIONS like number of copies, B/W or Colour and Duplex (Long or Short Edge) printing.