Printing articles from ProQuest
These instructions are designed to reduce the problems that occur when printing ProQuest articles in the Library (whether through Pharos, or through the student system in the Library training rooms). Library Staff may find these changes improve printing speed when applied on staff PCs. These instructions may also be useful for people having ProQuest printing problems from computers outside the Library.
Articles in text/html format
If you print an article from ProQuest (that is in text/html format), and it turns out to be unreadable, you could try copying and pasting the text into Microsoft Word, and change the font in Word before printing.
Articles in PDF format
1) If the PDF file opens inside the browser window, click the printer icon in the toolbar of the ProQuest PDF window to print.
2) For those of a technical bent, ProQuest articles are configured for Postscript printers and these instructions improve printing performance on non-postscript printers. The articles in ProQuest are scanned in an unusual manner. To avoid problems, and increase the speed of printing, the print quality needs to be manually set.
Once the file has been displayed on screen in Adobe Reader proceed as follows:
1) On the Menu Bar, click on File, then on Print
2) Click the Properties button on the Print window
3) Change the Print Quality to 300 dpi by clicking alongside that setting
4) Click OK to close the printer Properties windows, then click OK again to close the Print window and start the printing. If using a PC in the Library, the next step will be the Pharos window. The rest of the procedure has not changed.