
There are also other settings for whether you want to print on both sides of the paper, the printing sequence (Collated), and whether black and white or grayscale (see next subheading). There, you can set and customize different options for your final product: how many slides per page, the spaces in between each slide, the margins (see previous subheading), etc. If you’re not sure about the whole format of your printout, you should check it out before you waste ink. There are different customizations you can do from this screen and in the next, which is… You can set custom margins on your printouts and potentially include an additional slide or two. To remedy this, you can manually adjust it, and this is where the tinkering comes in. However, this is not a printer limitation it’s rather the software-the printer driver-that causes this. If there’s one constant as far as printers are concerned, it’s that they don’t typically reach the paper’s edge. Here are a few pointers to consider first.Īs with any competition, you can expect that manufacturers follow different formats with their products.

To do that, you first need to do a bit of tinkering and adjusting to get your desired quality on paper. But transitioning from the old to the new isn’t seamless, and paper sizes can’t compare to digital visual outlets.

Specifically now, in the modern age, there are humongous monitors and projectors that display every pixel perfectly despite their sizes. Going from digital to printout isn’t as easy as it looks. However, the issue is that slides were designed to be seen through a projector… unless you had the foresight to create your deck specifically for printing. This is not a bad thing, per se, especially if you have a great deck with a superb design and an enlightening message that people will want to go back and review everything they learned from your talk. Every presenter has been requested the same thing at one point or another: being asked if they have-or if members of the audience can have-printouts of their PowerPoint presentations.
