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title: "Save a Color Printing Preset on a Konica Minolta Printer"
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Learn how to save a color printing preset on a Mac for a campus Konica Minolta printer. <span style="color: #323232">Some programs have print dialog boxes that may not give you the option to print in color. </span>

1. Open Microsoft Word, select the **Command + O **keys on your keyboard to open a document, select **Command + S** to save the document, then select **Command + P **to print.
2. Under **Printer**, select the Konica Minolta printer to which you would like to print.
3. In the drop-down menu, select **Quality**.
4. Under **Select Color**, choose **Auto Color**.
  
5. <span style="color: #172b4d">In the </span>**Presets**<span style="color: #172b4d"> drop-down menu, select </span>**Save Current Settings as Preset...**
  
6. <span style="color: #172b4d">Give your preset a name like </span>**Color Printing**<span style="color: #172b4d">. Click the </span>**OK** <span style="color: #172b4d">button.</span>
  
7. <span style="color: #172b4d">Click the </span><span style="color: #172b4d">**Print **</span><span style="color: #172b4d">button. Now your preset is available in the </span><span style="color: #172b4d">**Presets**</span><span style="color: #172b4d"> drop-down menu. In the future, you can simply select the </span><span style="color: #172b4d">**Color Printing**</span><span style="color: #172b4d"> preset, to print in color.</span>

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