What controls what font my Canon printer uses? -

I use Vista and a new Canon MP470 printer. I have vision problems and set my large Screen monitor to large print and icons. A web page or E-Mail looks like it 14 font but when I print off a copy the font is so small I can t read it. How can I set the printer to print in a 14 font?

The printer prints whatever it s told to by the computer. Your printer really doesn t control the fonts. When you are printing stuff from the internet (web pages, email, etc.) the reason for the small print is that it is related to the size of the monitor and it s viewing setup (the higher the screen resolution, the smaller the print will be when printing it out even though it looks good on the monitor). One way you can make the print larger when printing internet stuff amp; emails is by changing the print view size on the screen to a larger size in your web browser (this is separate from your other setting you ve already setup). Go to the menu bar at the top (i.e. Internet Explorer), click on quot;View,quot; then quot;Text Sizequot; then select a size like quot;Largerquot; or quot;Largestquot; (something higher than what you re currently set to.) Another method is to go to your menu bar at the top of your web browser, click on quot;Filequot; then quot;Print Previewquot;. At the top of the window there should be a small window with quot;Shrink To Fitquot; in it. Click the arrow for a drop down list and choose something probably above 90% or more (maybe 100 or 125%) and see how it changes the print size of what is to be printed out. The only other method is to copy amp; paste the text into a text editing software like Word and adjust the text size there. If you re using a text program, then you simply adjust the size of the text to a 12 or 14 point, or larger, font size (adjust depending on the font and size you need) and that should do the trick. Best of Luck.