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I receive dozens of questions every week via the Tech Q&A page on my blog, and many of those questions are about printer issues.
They often go something like this:
“I need help with my printer. It was working fine until this morning but now it’s just printing blank pages! What could be the problem?”
Most printer problems can be easily solved, but it can be difficult for the average user to know how to begin troubleshooting an issue.
As you probably know by now, Microsoft made a ton of changes when they designed the Windows 8 user interface, and many of them were quite unpopular to say the least.
Some of the most reviled changes were addressed with the release of Windows 8.1, but there’s one that really irritates me that wasn’t addressed at all: the procedure for printing from a modern app.
Before Windows 8 came along, printing was almost as easy as breathing. All you had to do was either click the Print icon on a toolbar or the Print option on the “File” menu. But since most modern apps no longer have these features we must do it in a completely different way.
Follow the steps below to print from a modern app in Windows 8.1: [Read more…]