Print Options
The Print Options page is the first page of both the Advanced Print Wizard and the Output Creation Settings Preset .
This page is the most important of the Advanced Print Wizard. The other pages that appear throughout the Wizard are determined by the selections made on this page.
The choices can be broken down as follows:
- Printer :
- Model: Use the drop-down
to select the printer language / output type that will be generated.
Connect output
options cover a range of industry standard print output types. These include PCL, PDF and PostScript (including PPML, VIPP and VPS variants), with a range of
quality settings available.
By default, Connect displays only the PDF output option, but other print output types can be added to the Printer Model drop down list via the Gear button ![](../../../../Resources/Images/Settings_button.PNG) For more information on how to do this, see Adding print output models to the Print Wizard.
- Output Options section:
- Output Local checkbox: Select to have the output created using the local Print Server.
- Output Type choices:
- Prompt for file name:
Select to output to a local file on the hard drive. When this
option is selected, no other configuration is necessary. A Save As dialog will appear to allow selection of the folder and filename.
- Directory: Select to
output to a local folder on the machine.
- Job Output Mask: The name of the file that will output.
You can use ${template}
as a variable for the name of the Designer Template used to
generate the output. - Job Output Folder: The path on the disk where the file is produced. Please note
that the folder must exist, or output will fail when produced
through the server.
- LPR Queue: Select to
send the print job to an LPR queue. It is assumed that the print
technology is supported by the system receiving the LPR job.
- Local Printer:
The IP or host name of the printer or machine where the LPD
is installed and will receive
- Queue Name: The
queue name that will accept the job on the LPD. Default is
generally "auto".
- Job Owner Name: Optional entry for adding the name of the job owner.
- Job Name: The name of the output file. You can use ${template}
as a variable for the name of the Designer Template used to
generate the output.
- Windows Printer: Select
to send the Print Job to a Printer Queue. The job is rendered
as a PDF before being printed through the Windows driver.
- PDF Rendering Options
(PDF output only):
- Auto-rotate and center:
Check to automatically select the page orientation that
best matches the content and paper.
- Choose paper source
by page size: Check to use the PDF page size to
determine the output tray rather than the page setup option.
This option is useful for printing PDFs that contain multiple
page sizes on printers that have different-sized output
trays.
- Scale:
- None: Select
to not scale any page, whether it fits or not.
- Expand to printable
area: Select to expand any page to fit the
page area. Pages larger than the paper size are not
resized.
- Shrink to printable
area: Select to shrink any page to fit the
page area. Pages smaller than the paper size are not
resized.
- Production Options:
- Booklet Imposition checkbox:
Check to tell the printer to generate a booklet for the print
output. Booklet options are set in the Booklet Options page.
This option is unselected by default unless selected in the Designer Print Section Properties.
- Cut and Stack Imposition checkbox: Check to enable Cut & Stack Imposition, which is set in the Imposition Options page.
- Add Inserter marks checkbox:
Check to enable inserter mark functionality, which is set in the
Inserter Options page.
- Override Finishing options checkbox: Check to configure custom Finishing Options, such as binding.
- Print virtual stationery checkbox: Check to enable virtual stationery in the output.
- Use grouping checkbox: Check to configure grouping of output into jobs, job segments or document sets. See Grouping Options.
- Include meta data checkbox: Check to add meta data to the output. This can be done at Job, Job Segment, Document, Document Set and Page level. See Metadata Options .
- Separation: Check to
activate the Separation Options page of the wizard.
- Add additional content checkbox:
Check to activate the Additional Content page of the wizard.
- Records section:
- Record Range: Allows selection of a range of records or a custom selection.
You can specific individual records
separated by semi-colons (;) or ranges using dashes. For example:
2;4;6-10 would print pages 2, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10.
- Copies section:
- Copies: Enter the number
of copies to print, of each record.
- Collate: When printing
multiple copies you can check this checkbox to have the record copies printed together.
For example in a three record job the records would print out as 1-1-2-2-3-3, rather than 1-2-3-1-2-3.
- Pure Color Thresholds section:
This section is valid for PCL only. It applies to elements within the record that are shades of gray, rather than black or white. - Black Threshold Percentage: The percentage of shading at which the element will appear as full black, rather than dark gray.
- White Threshold Percentage: The percentage at which the element will appear as full white, rather than light gray.
Advanced Print Wizard navigation options
- Load button: Click to select a previously created Output Creation Preset. This will change the Advanced Print Options to match the entries contained within the Preset.
- Preview button: Click to launch a Proof Preview window, which displays how the printed output would look based upon the currently chosen selections.
- Back and Next buttons: Used to navigate back and forth through all the selected options within the Wizard. Up until the Print button is pressed, one can reverse all the way through the wizard to return to the main selection page (the Print Options page) and add or remove printing options from the print run.
- Print button: Click to produce
print output according to the current settings. This can be done at any point within the Wizard, whether or not the options selected in the the Print Options page have been completed or not.
- Cancel button: Cancels the Print Wizard, without creating any printout.
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