{"id":84,"date":"2008-09-06T21:42:02","date_gmt":"2008-09-06T18:42:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.held.org.il\/blog\/?p=84"},"modified":"2008-09-06T21:42:02","modified_gmt":"2008-09-06T18:42:02","slug":"how-hp-microsoft-donate-to-world-pollution-and-ink-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.held.org.il\/blog\/2008\/09\/how-hp-microsoft-donate-to-world-pollution-and-ink-business\/","title":{"rendered":"How HP &amp; Microsoft donate to world pollution (and Ink business)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 125%; font-weight: bold; color: #888888;\">Or: \"how to set draft printing quality as default\"<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">[warning: non Linux post]<\/span><\/p>\n<p>I've had two pretty modern (year 2006+) HP InkJet printers. Their driver adds a new tab to the Windows \"Printing Preferences\" dialog (I really enjoy those vendor-specific dialogs!), through which\u00c2\u00a0 one can change the printing quality.<\/p>\n<p>For 90% of my home needs, black-only draft quality is enough, so upon printing, from the \"Printing Dialog\", I click \"Printing Preferences\" and change the quality to black-only + fast\/economical printing:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.held.org.il\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/hp1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-85\" title=\"hp1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.held.org.il\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/hp1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"388\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>However, the GUI designer forgot (or the MS API doesn't allow) a \"make this the default\" button, which is a MUST in my opinion.<\/p>\n<p>A quick digging revealed the forbidden truth, though.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 125%; color: #888888;\"><strong>So, how can we really set the <span style=\"color: #800000;\">default<\/span><\/strong><strong> printing quality?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Control Panel -&gt; Printers -&gt; right click on your printer -&gt; Properties<\/strong> -&gt; <strong>\"Advanced\" Tab (Cuz it's only for really advanced users! are you sure you are one?) -&gt; Printing Defaults button:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.held.org.il\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/hp2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-86\" title=\"hp2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.held.org.il\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/hp2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"499\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Microsoft (and Apple), as the biggest OS vendors, have the [almost] ultimate power: they set the rules for most of the world computers, and they set the defaults. By making power-saving options very straightforward, and even making the defaults environment-friendly, they can decrease the world power saving by very large numbers. Same should go with Ink saving.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Or: &#8220;how to set draft printing quality as default&#8221; [warning: non Linux post] I&#8217;ve had two pretty modern (year 2006+) HP InkJet printers. Their driver adds a new tab to the Windows &#8220;Printing Preferences&#8221; dialog (I really enjoy those vendor-specific dialogs!), through which\u00c2\u00a0 one can change the printing quality. For 90% of my home needs, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[197,54,200,129],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.held.org.il\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.held.org.il\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.held.org.il\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.held.org.il\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.held.org.il\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.held.org.il\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.held.org.il\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.held.org.il\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.held.org.il\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}