xp pro fast draft through new imac

[mtevans14]

Operating System: Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) Processor: Intel I have a Windows XP Professional, 2006, printing Word by w/less connection to a new iMac, connected by usb cable to a HP officejet 5610 printer. The print dialog box in XP Pro does not seem to offer the option of printing in fast draft like XP Home, 2006.

How do I get XP Pro to print in fast draft?

Thanks for your help.

 

[John McGhie]

Ask HP: The options on the Print Dialog come from the printer driver,
they're not part of Word or Mac OS.

If your printer offers Fast Draft mode, the company that provided the driver
can tell you how to enable it.

Cheers

Operating System: Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) Processor: Intel I have a
Windows XP Professional, 2006, printing Word by w/less connection to a new
iMac, connected by usb cable to a HP officejet 5610 printer. The print dialog
box in XP Pro does not seem to offer the option of printing in fast draft like
XP Home, 2006.

How do I get XP Pro to print in fast draft?

Thanks for your help.

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[CyberTaz]

In all probability the printer driver installed on the XP Pro machine is a
different than what's installed on the XB Home machine.

What is not stated in your message is whether you're referring to separate
physical machines or whether you are running these Windows OS installs as
VMs on a Mac. It also isn't clear whether you're actually printing the
document from Mac Word or from a Windows version on a PC connected to a Mac
on the same network sharing the same printer. If you're printing from the
Mac while in Mac Word then it's the printer driver installed on the Mac
that's in question.

If it's Boot Camp or VM using Windows XP Pro it could still be the Mac's
printer driver ‹ it depends on which VM software you're using as some employ
the installed Windows driver, others use the host Mac's resources.

There's also the distinct possibility that HP's Windows driver differs from
what they've provided for the Mac OS. The bottom line is that the driver
software is the place to start because the app software & the OS have
nothing to do with it ‹ although the VM software could.

HTH |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac

 

[mtevans14]

Thanks for the help. Both very clear replies. I will try to straighten out with HP.