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2013-09-23

Repetition Settings

The Repetition Settings lets you specify how a layout is repeated on your page. This is known as Multi-Up printing, or N-Up printing where N represents the number of repetitions within a page (for example 2up, 4up or 8up). See Use Layout Repetition for more information.

The Repetition Settings section applies only to this document. When changing these options, they are saved with your document and may change when opening or creating a new document.

To specify repetition preference settings

  1. (Windows): From the Edit menu (CTRL+K), select Preferences .
    (Mac OS): From the PrintShop Mail menu, select Preferences .
  2. In the left pane, click the Repetition Settings icon.

About repetition preferences

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Layout Repetition Specify how the actual multi-up is done. The number between parentheses indicates the maximum number of repetitions possible with the current layout and print settings.
  • Horizontal repetition: Specify the amount of layouts positioned in the horizontal direction (number of columns).
  • Vertical repetition: Specify the amount of layouts positioned in the vertical direction (number of rows).
Spacing between layouts Specify the horizontal and vertical distance between each layouts when using layout repetition.
Repetition Preview Shows the repetition order on the page. When the defined Horizontal and Vertical repetition does not fit on the page, the layouts on the left and bottom are represented with a dash line.

Priorities

Specify the priorities (1,2,3) and direction (Left to Right, Right to Left , Top to Bottom, Bottom to Top, Front to Back, Back to Front) in which the records in your document are going to be printed. You can specify:
  • Left to Right, Right to Left: Influences the horizontal repetition.
  • Top to Bottom, Bottom to Top: Influences the vertical repetition.
  • Front to Back, Back to Front: Allows printing Through-the-stack

Mirroring

Specify that the positions of the layouts on the back of each page should match de positions of the layouts on the front of each page. In effect, the layout positions on the back will mirror the layouts in front of the page.

  • Based on driver settings: The document will be printed duplex according to the settings in the printer driver, provided the driver supports this.
  • Flip on long edge: Layouts in the back side of the page will be mirrored through the long edge of the page.
  • Flip on short edge(Windows only): Layouts in the back side of the page will be mirrored through the short edge of the page.
  • Simplex: The document does not require mirroring of the layouts.

When selecting Based on Driver Setting, the Preview dialog will not show the correct mirroring since it cannot read the printer's settings.

PrintShop Mail for Windows supports mixed layout sizes, except when layout repetition is used. When using layout repetition, the first layout size will be the layout size for the complete document.