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I have two questions... why do I need a userid to ask questions to the forum.  That's just a flat waste of my time and a gross attempt to collection formation

 

Second - I want to print pictures (like web pages and stuff) to my 8x11 paper.  This 5740 insists that almost everything with color goes to the photograph paper tray.

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I found it on the printers web page

 

Settings -> Preferences -> Paper settings

 

Set the Photo default media to Plain Paper

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Hi, are you using a Printing Shortcut to print?

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I found it on the printers web page

 

Settings -> Preferences -> Paper settings

 

Set the Photo default media to Plain Paper

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Great!

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