CUSTOMTOOLS Printing Profile - Printer Information

In the Printer Information page, you can define priting device, paper size and orientation and, the scaling used to scale the source document to fit into the paper sheet used with the printing profile.

Printer Information:

Printer

The printer device or the printer software to print source documents into the files.

Paper Size and Source:

Size	Size of the paper sheet to print the source documents on.
Width	Width of the paper sheet the documents are about to be printed to.
Height	Height of the paper sheet the documents are about to be printed to.
Source	A paper source in the printer where the output paper sheets are taken from. Options available in the Source box, depends on the paper sources available in the printer device selected in the Printer box.

NOTE: The Width and Height boxes are for setting up a customized paper sheet size. For that reason, they are enabled only when the custom paper size option is selected from the Size box. In other cases, the sheet's Width and Height is automatically defined by the sheet size selected.

Scale:

In the Scale settings, you can setup how the source documents are scaled into the target paper sheets.

Scale to fit	Select the Scale to fit option to automatically scale the source documents to fit onto the size of the selected target paper sheet.
Scale (%)	In the Scale box, you can set the custom scaling percentage the documents are scaled by to the paper sheets.

Paper Orientation:

	Portrait	Select the Portrait option to print documents in portrait orientation to the target sheet.
	Landscape	Select the Landscape option to print documents in landscape orientation to the target sheet.

Drawing Colors:

Automatic	Prints the documents with colors if the printer or plotter driver reports that it is capable of printing color. Otherwise, the documents are printed using black and white.
Color / Grey scale	Tries print the documents always using colors regardless of the capabilities that the printer or plotter driver reports. The Black and white printers usually prints the colored entities in gray scale or dithered with this option. Usage of this option is recommended in an environment where a color printer or plotter prints using black and white with the Automatic option.
Black and white	Sends all documents to the printer or plotter in black and white regardless of the printer or plotter color capabilities.

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