These instructions are for Using Windows Fax Viewer.
If you are not sure if you are using windows fax viewer to view your photos, this is what they would look like after opening a photo folder and then double clicking on that photo.
This is the simplest way to print photos and quickest.
Open any folder,
Go To Tools and open the menu
At the bottom of the menu you will see Folder Options, select Folder Options, now a window will open with tabs, General, View, File Types. Select the File Types tab.
On the File types Tab you will have a scroll box on top, scroll down using the bar on the right, scroll down till you see GIF GIF Image
Highlight GIF now just down below this area you will see Details for, click on Change
A program window (Open With) will open, in the program window highlight Windows Picture Fax Viewer and make sure you have a check mark in the check mark below the program window, then click OK.
Now your back on the Folder Options Window, Scroll down till you See JPE, JPEG, JPG, highlight just one and repeat the steps we did to change GIF to Windows Picture Fax Viewer. Do just one at a time but change all three.
Highlight one, then click on change
Select Windows Picture Fax Viewer, make sure you have a check in the check mark box, click on okay, and do the same thing for the next two file types.
After you do the third file type and you are back on the folder options window click on Apply, then click on OK.
Now that we are using the same program lets move on to printing pictures.
Windows picture fax view is good for more than just printing, we will go over the choices in the tool bar at the bottom of its window from left to right.
The two round buttons on the left (if you put your cursor on the a tool tip will display saying what each button is for) Previous and Next are what the buttons are, any picture in the folder that you are working within you can move to with these buttons, one picture at a time. The next button is Best fit, this is the best fit to the window size if your pictures size is like 8 inches by 10 inches it will scale it down so you can see the whole picture. Its neighbor is to display the pictures full size, here you will probably have to scroll the window in order to see the full picture, if you have run the photo through a photo editor and scaled it down or scanned it in as a small size you may not. The next button in this group is Slide Show, this will open to full screen and your controls (must move your mouse to display) will be located in the top right hand corner, (Play, Pause, Back, Forward, Stop) to get out of this slide show either double click the mouse button or hit Esc on your keyboard. Slide show will go through each the folder that you are working in. the next group is orientation, if your photo is sideways click on either the left or right, depending on which way you need to turn the photo, this will rotate the photo 90 degrees (quarter turn). The next group, Delete (red X), Print, Save (copy to) if you want the photo in another folder also this is how to do it from within Windows Picture Fax viewer quickly, the next button will close windows picture fax viewer and open the photo you are looking at in your default photo editing program, and the last button is Help.
Click on the printer, now the photo printing wizard opens, Click on next
Now in this window you get to select the picture that you are on or others within the same folder, you can not select pictures from another folder.
Once you select your picture or pictures click on next. Now you get to select your printer if you have more than one printer. If you click on printing preferences it will open your printer options folder, most printers have a print quality setting, if you have this choice select your desired quality level then click OK then in the wizard click Next.
Now the next step in the wizard is to select the picture style and the number of photos you want to print. The scroll box has numerous choices and sizes, as you highlight them it will give you a preview on the right, if the picture doesn’t fit one way the program will turn it to fit, if you selected more than one photo and want to see previews you will have to scroll down to anything with more than one photo per page. Now below the print choices you will see Number of Times to use each picture: if you selected lets say three photos and you are printing 3 photos on a page and you leave it as 1 you will get all three on the page, and if you selected an 8x10 it will print each picture as an 8x10, so you will use three sheets.
Under View (button or Icon) in the tool bar of a folder you can select Filmstrip, this makes it simple to view your pictures, in this view under the preview (large picture) you will see those two little icons for rotating the picture. If you double click any photo at the bottom of this view it will take you right to Windows Picture Fax Viewer (new window).
Folder views icon looks like this
and is
usually towards the end of the button row. You can also click on View located
to the right of Edit then click on Filmstrip.