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Printing to a Desktop Printer

Before the final output, you may want to print a sample to your desktop printer for proofing.

  1. Make sure all the objects and colors you want to print are visible in your document.
  2. From the File menu, select Print.

  3. Select your desktop printer and select the desired options.

    To print only selected objects, check Selection in the Print Options group.

  4. Adjust the following parameters:

    Printer

    Lets you select the following printer-related properties:

     

    Name

    Selects the name of the printer you want to print to.

     

    Properties

    Adjusts printer-specific properties. (See your printer documentation for details.)

     

    PostScript data

    Specifies the data output form: Binary or ASCII. When Binary is selected, the data is first compressed using binary encoding and then sent to the printer.

    Copies

    Lets you specify the Number of copies you want to print.

     

    Collate

    When checked, all the pages of a multi-page file will be output in order before starting on the next copy. (For example, three copies of a three-page job would print out 1,2,3; 1,2,3; 1,2,3.)

    When cleared, the entire specified number of copies will be output for a single page before starting on the next page. (Three copies of a three-page job would print 1,1,1; 2,2,2; 3,3,3.)

    Scale

    Lets you select one of the following:

     

    Fit drawing to paper

    Resizes the output to fit the entire design onto the paper.

     

     

    Fit border to paper

    Resizes the output to fit the entire drawing area onto the paper.

     

     

    Scale

    Lets you select or enter a percentage to scale (resize) the output. You can use the Tiling option to print images that are bigger than the size of paper your printer can handle.

    For example, if you want to print a scale of 1 inch = 1 feet, enter 1:12 in this field.

     

    Printer Options

    Let's you select from a number of print options:

     

    Selection only

    Only prints the selected portions of a design.

     

    Border

    Prints the border around the design area along with the design.

     

    Wireframe

    Prints all vector objects without fill.

     

    Substrate

    Prints the substrate color (if any) along with the design.

     

    Guides

    Prints the guides (if any) along with the design.

     

    Grid

    Prints the grid along with the design.

     

    Template

    Applies a layout template to the output.

     

     

    Select Template

    Opens the Select Template dialog box, where you can select from a number of predefined layout templates.

    Tiling

    Allows you to divide the output into tiles and set an overlap between the tiles.

     

    Print tiled pages

    When checked, this tiles the output.

     

    Overlap

    Specifies the amount of overlap between the tiles.

     

    Original design Tiled output

    Position

    Lets you select from one of the following positions:

     

    Top Left

    Top Center

    Top Right

     

    Left Center

    Center

    Right Center

     

    Bottom Left

    Bottom Center

    Bottom Right

     

    Custom

    Lets you position the design precisely by specifying the following offsets:

     

     

    Offset X

    Specifies the distance from the left edge of the design to the left edge of the printable area of the page.

     

     

    Offset Y

    Specifies the distance from the top edge of the design to the top edge of the printable area of the page.

    Advanced

    Check to enable the following advanced options:

     

    Use device margins

    When checked, uses the margin information from the printer driver.

     

    Ignore overprint

    When checked, ignores any overprinting set up in the design stage. This can be useful if you want to save the time and output media needed to do overprinting.

    If you check Ignore Overprint, your output will automatically be changed so that it will not use features that depend on overprinting. For example, output that had been set up to use color trapping will now output untrapped.

     

    Ignore Bitmap Transparency

    When checked, temporarily overrides any transparent portions of a bitmap.

  5. When finished, click OK (Windows) or Print (Macintosh).