9.6. Printing, print options and printer settings<br>

## 9.6. Printing, print options and printer settings

### 9.6.1. Printing and print options

After executing calculations, you can print the project on any printer installed in a Windows environment. Before printing you should set print options and establish paper cutting lines, if the project will not fit into one sheet.

¨ To print the project:

1. Select the “Print” layer tab in the lower right corner of the screen. The print preview mode is enabled.

2. Specify print parameters and options in the fields of the data table (the data table must be displayed).

3. Check positions of paper cutting lines; adjust them by dragging the lines with the mouse, if necessary.

4. Select “File / Print” (Ctrl+P, ). The project is printed.

After selecting the „Print” tab, the print preview mode is enabled. The connection points, auxiliary points disappear, all lines take on the appropriate thickness. Print configuration fields appear in the data table:

Printer

The printer on which the project is to be printed.

Settings ...

Used to specify printer settings. The button with dots on the right side of the field opens a window for specifying printer settings.

Scale

Printout scale (in relation to real dimensions of the project).

Overlap [cm]

Width of overlap. Description of tabs and an example of page layout are given further in this section.

Orientation

You can change paper orientation from portrait to landscape and vice versa.

Left margin [cm], Right margin [cm], Top margin [cm], Bottom margin [cm]

Margin settings on the printout.

Paper length [mm]

Paper length. Paper dimension parallel to horizontal axis of project is meant as the paper length.

Paper width [mm]

Paper width. Paper dimension parallel to vertical axis of project is meant as the paper width.

Colour

Here you can switch colour printing on and off on colour printers (e.g. to spare colour ink or to make a quick test printout). If the Colour field is set to “No”, then a monochrome printout will be made no matter what type of printer is used. The disabling of colour may also be useful when using monochrome printers –light colours are sometimes not printed at all on such printers.

Continuous paper

Cont. paper page length

Here you specify the settings for printing on continuous paper, (see section 9.6.3).

No. of pages

Indicates how many pages the project will take up with the current print options.

! NOTE: in some cases some of the pages may be empty.

While in print preview mode, purple and green lines are displayed on the screen together with a scissors symbol. These lines indicate paper cutting lines. Purple lines indicate paper cutting lines on the left, lower side, and the green lines indicate overlaps that enable pasting together sheets to form complete printout of a project. Overlap is a part of the printout that appears on two neighbouring pages. When pasting two pages together, one page should cover the other over the overlap width. Two short lines above and below the printout area indicate the place which the page should adjoin. One of the neighbouring pages comes on top (it may be any page of the two), the other comes underneath. You can inactivate the overlap in the data table by entering 0 (zero) in the “Overlap” field.

After positioning the mouse pointer on one of the purple lines, it takes on a shape that suggest the ability to move the paper cutting line. You can “grab” the line with the mouse and move it, so that, for instance, the paper is not cut in the middle of a room label. However, you can never set the page size larger than the printer page; you can only make it smaller.

You can revert to the default setting. To do this, select “File / Reset page layout”. Also, changing the printer, scale, overlaps or margins resets the default page setting.

¨ To disable the print preview mode, click another tab in the lower right corner of the screen.