libbygilmore,

Not quite sure what you're asking.

If you click on start, control panel, you can see the control panel. You can click the red x and close it at any time.

Do you have a problem with your Dell V313w printer you need help with?

Rick

can the control panel be closed, once opened?   I have a new Dell V313w, but I noticed that someone asked this same question, on another Dell model, over 280+ days ago, and it has gone unanswered.  If I could only get into the Support Live Chat it would be nice. I know this is a small question, but finding answers is making me INSANE.

I can't believe more than a year has passed and nobody answered your question. I had the same question and learned there is a button located on the bottom of the control panel nearly dead center. Just give it a little bit of a press and it will go in without forcing it. Here is teh link where I found the answer. I am taking my printer with me on a roadtrip, so I neeed to know how to fold it up.

http://www.ehow.com/how_7429274_pull-v313-printer-control-panel.html

Face your control panel. Put your hand underneath
and behind the control panel and press forward with your
fingers.  That will release it. There is a release
latch there; it is about 4 inches wide and in the center.
This is for a model Dell V515W; hopefully it will work on yours.

Hi guys.  For my Dell V313W, there is no button or latch underneath the control panel.  It is supported by a fairly wide and thin plastic "arc".

To retract it, simply press the arc upwards into the control panel.  This will release the support and allow you retract the control panel.

...or over eleven years late, rather, my reading that date  - in my very British way! - as 8th October 2010 rather than 10th August 2010.

I've just managed it on my now very old V313w by finding the place where the curved plastic meets the body of the printer by the left and right grooved runners, pressing down by the left-hand runner then by the right-hand runner, resulting in the loud click indicating that the retraction mechanism has been released.

Sorry this is nearly eleven years late!