To be able to print text typed on a computer or received in finished form in a text file, you must have access to a printer. A printer is a printing peripheral that connects to your computer through a parallel port, USB port, or network connection. If the text contains color illustrations or multi-colored fonts, then you will either need a color printer, or you will have to accept the loss of color in the document.
Instructions
Step 1
If you do not have access to a printer, then write the text file to some removable medium - a flash drive, disk, or even a mobile phone. Then find a computer connected to a printer - nowadays it is difficult to find an office that does not have a printer, and there are fewer and fewer people who have a personal computer but do not have a printer. Surely the printer can be found at your work, at your acquaintances or at their office. There are also specialized services for printing and copying documents. As a last resort, ask to print the file in a computer store or in an Internet cafe - if the volume of the document is not too large, then it is unlikely that you will be refused.
Step 2
If there is a printer, then first check if it is connected to the computer, if its power is on, if it has enough paper and toner. If this printer has never been connected to your computer before, you will need to install its driver in the system. Most often this happens automatically - the operating system is able to independently identify the majority of printers connected to the computer and select a driver for it from its database.
Step 3
Load the text into a text editor. If you just typed it in, then you need to skip this step, and if you received it as a file, then you just need to double-click to load it into the editor program.
Step 4
Select the command to send the document to print from the text editor menu. The exact location of this command may vary from program to program. For example, in Microsoft Word 2007, you need to click the big round button in the upper left corner of the window, open the "Print" item in the drop-down menu, and click the "Quick Print" line. Instead of an item in the menu, you can use the "hot keys" assigned to this command CTRL + P - pressing this combination works the same way in the vast majority of programs in which work with the printer is provided. So you send your text to print, and the program will show a window with information on how this procedure will take place.
