color patches on my printouts

The printouts from the colour printer has some pink patches or cyan patches on them? How do resolve this problem?

1) Check the specific colour cartridge that is "spilling" and clean them using a tissue or some slightly damp cloth.

2) Take out the cartridge and carefully clean the area.

3) Place the cartridge back and perform some test print. If the issue persist, replace the faulty cartridge.


- wong chee tat :)

Kill those print jobs

Encountered an interesting issue.

Someone tried to send a 1 page document print job to the the local HP printer. Unfortunately, the local HP printer simply prints multiple copies of the print job. The problem is how do we kill the print jobs?

Some limitations:
Restarting and shutdown the printer does not help. There is no way to view the print jobs from the printer web console. The printer web console can only provide us the settings for configurations and what are the printed jobs. So, how do we resolve that?

Initially, simply cancelling the print job that the printer is printing or trying to print helps. There must be a faster way to kill those jobs that in the memory. Unfortunately, we have no idea how many print jobs are still in the printer's memory.

But we want to kill whatever print jobs that are in the memory. So, what can we do then?

We use power reset.

Steps:

Step 1) Press the Power button to turn on or power on the HP printer.

Step 2) When the power is on, the printer's lcd screen will show a progress bar loading or starting. Then disconnect the power cord from the rear of the printer.

Step 3) For safety reason, unplug the power cord from the wall outlet.

Step 4) Wait for about 15 seconds.

Step 5) Plug the power cord back into the wall outlet.

Step 6) Reconnect the power cord to the rear of the printer and power on the printer.

Once the HP printer starts up, you show see that printer will no longer print out any existing job that is in the memory.

Let us print a test print. It should print out and nothing else.

Checking the printer console printed jobs, it should show the test page is printed.

- wong chee tat :)

Print to the Microsoft XPS Document Writer

Applies to Windows 7

The XPS Document Writer allows you to create .xps files using any program that you can print from in Windows. Print to the XPS Document Writer when you want to create, send, and share or publish documents that you do not want other people to modify, or when you want to print a document or display it online exactly as it appears on your screen. It's also a good idea to create an XPS document for files that contain graphics or illustrations that might otherwise display differently in print than online or on computers with different monitors.

XPS documents are easy to share because you can view them on any computer where an XPS viewer is installed, even if the computer doesn't have the same programs that you used to create the original documents. For more information about XPS documents, see XPS documents: frequently asked questions or go to the Microsoft XML Paper Specification website.

To print to the XPS Document Writer

1. Open the document or file that you want to print to .xps format, and then click Print. In most programs, the print option is available from the File menu.
2. In the Print dialog box, select Microsoft XPS Document Writer.
3. To view the document using the XPS Viewer after you print it, click Preferences, click the XPS Documents tab, make sure that the Automatically open XPS documents using the XPS viewer check box is selected, and then click OK.
4. Click Print to print the document or file.
5. When prompted, enter a file name and browse to the location where you want to save the .xps file. Click Save. Windows will save .xps files in your Documents folder by default.

After printing to the .xps file format, you can view an XPS document by browsing to it and opening it. You can print a paper copy, share the XPS document, or send it to a commercial printer or to other people in any way that you prefer.

Tip

• To help prevent security problems, you can attach a digital signature to an XPS document before you send or share it. The digital signature identifies the creator of the XPS document and helps warn anyone who views it if the document was modified after it was digitally signed. You can also determine who can view the document and for how long by applying permissions before sharing the document.

- wong chee tat :)

Printing in SAP

To select the printer to print in SAP:

In SAP, go to List then select Print.

You should see a dialog box: Print ALV List. Then, type the name of the printer and select the green check box to print.

The printer should start printing immediately.


- wong chee tat :)

Prime shopping space in CBD shrinks

Prime shopping space in CBD shrinks
By Lynda Hong | Posted: 07 January 2013 1843 hrs
     
SINGAPORE: Prime shopping space in the central business district (CBD) has shrunk.

As at end of September 2012, retail space - excluding that for drinking, eating and entertainment - has fallen by about 3 per cent, according to data by the Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) which was analysed by real estate firm Colliers International.

Prints, an upmarket stationery retailer, has been looking to expand in the Orchard Road area. Its outlet at Chevron house has attracted a lot of corporate orders and bulk purchases from surrounding offices.

But its business is still lagging behind its other outlet at Ion Orchard. With space four times larger Chevron's, Ion brings in 20 per cent more business.

The company said expanding into the Orchard Road shopping belt may also open up new opportunities. Its third outlet at CityLink Mall sees the least business.

Prints' operation manager, Lim Fung Leng, said: "We're still looking at areas like Orchard and VivoCity because we would like to expand into the international market and we would like to attract more tourists and those area has a lot people from different walks of life it will get more exposure for our products."

More retail space in the CBD area has been converted for Food and Beverage purposes, according to a research by real estate agency Colliers International.

As a result, the available space for other retail use has become tighter.

Colliers International's research head, Chia Siew Chuin, said: "Why you see more retail space or rather more F&B space is because a lot of developers and owners of retail malls know that F&B outlets are actually magnets for people. Magnets for human traffic to be locked inside their retail malls. So gone are the days when you only see 15 per cent to 20 per cent F&B space. You can see as high as 40 or 50 per cent of your total space is F&B or leisure space."

Other analysts said prime space for F&B outlets may typically command lower rents.

Savills Singapore's research head Alan Cheong said: "F&B commands lower rentals on a dollar-psf, gross lettable area because you have a lot of non-revenue generating activities like your kitchen and in some instances you have to provide washroom compared to retail where every single space is for revenue generating purpose."

Except for the building housing the former DBS headquarters that will be redeveloped to include a sizeable retail space spanning 170,000 square feet, analysts don't see much office space being converted to retail space in the CBD.

In the next five to 10 years, new condominiums will create the need for more retail space.

But analysts said these would be F&B outlets and retail stores providing basic necessities like pharmacies, mini-grocers and supermarkets for affluent residents.

- CNA/ck

- wong chee tat :)