Whenever I right click an image and select Print, some kind of "photo printing" software pops up. If "open with" for images is set to Microsoft Office Picture Manager or Windows Image and Fax Viewer, then "Photo Printing Wizard" popus up. If HP Image Zone Express is the "open with" for images, then that pops up. The problem is that these offer ONLY fixed shape/size image printing (8x11, 5x7, etc.) and it takes my image, which may be a 2x3 scanned business card or a 4x4 scanned image from a book and blows it up and rotates it and chops part of it off to make it fit one of its prescribed shapes/sizes (who thought THIS one up?).
The only way I can get it to print in its ORIGINAL shape and size is to
right click the image then instead of just selecting "Print", I have to ....
move mouse up menu to "open with"
click on OpenWith
move mouse over to menu with "paint"
click on Paint
move mouse into paint window & up to file on the menu
click on File
move mouse down to menu with Print
Click on Print (finally)
I don't want Paint to be the default "open with" for images because I can't page through my images with it and I don't want all the paint application icons in the way either.
I can also bring up a blank Windows document, go through locating and inserting the image in the document and printing it from there - but same problem as paint - unnecessary steps, time, and trouble.
Is there any solution?? Any way to get right-click-print on images to bring up the same printer software that prints documents or to use paint to PRINT without my having to give up having standard left clicking on an image to bring up on of my image VIEWERS that can PAGE through images?? There should be a way to print an image in its ORIGINAL/CURRENT shape & size without having the software mangle it so it is useless. Anyone know of an image printing software that doesn't manhandle the images into some pre-selected size and shape, but will print the actual image as it is?
Anna Summers
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