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Printing with Windows

Making Settings on the Layout Menu

Making the Reduce/Enlarge setting
Making Multi-Page settings
Making the Optimize Enlargement setting (for Windows XP and 2000 only)

You can make the Reduce/Enlarge, Multi-Page, and Optimize Enlargement settings on this menu.

Note:

The functions on the Layout menu are not available when Roll Paper (Banner) is selected as the Paper Source setting.

According to the paper source you choose, some of the functions are not available.

Making the Reduce/Enlarge setting

You can fit the size of your data to the size of paper you to print on. To enable this function, select Reduce/Enlarge. When this function is enabled, you can make the following settings.

Fit to Page	Proportionally enlarges or reduces the size of your data to make it fit the paper size you have selected in the Output Paper Size.
Custom	Lets you define the percentage you want to enlarge or reduce a data. Click the arrows next to the Scale box to select a proportion from 10 to 400%.

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Making Multi-Page settings

Selecting Multi-Page lets you choose between the N-up and Poster settings.

Making N-up settings

Select N-up as the Multi-Page setting to print two or four pages of your document on one sheet of paper.

When N-up is selected, you can make the following settings.

2 Pages 4 Pages	Prints two or four pages of your data on a single sheet of paper.
Page Order	Opens the Print Layout dialog box, where you can specify the order in which the pages will be printed. Some settings may be unavailable, depending on the Orientation selection on the Paper menu.
Print page frames	Prints frames around the pages printed on each sheet.

Making Poster settings

A single page can be enlarged to cover 4, 9, or 16 printed sheets of paper. Select Poster as the Multi-Page setting to print a poster-size image.

Click Settings to adjust the way your poster will print. The Poster Settings dialog box opens.

You can make the following settings.

Print Cutting Guides	Check this box to turn the cutting guide options on.
Overlapping Alignment Marks	Slightly overlaps the images and prints alignment markers so that they can be aligned more precisely.
Trim Lines	Prints border lines on the images to guide you when trimming the pages.

If you only want to print a few of the panels without printing the entire poster, click the panels that you do not want to print, and then click OK to close the Poster Settings dialog box.

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Making the Optimize Enlargement setting (for Windows XP and 2000 only)

Select this check box to optimize an enlargement to achieve long poster or panoramic printing without using a particular application. Clear this check box if text or graphics are distorted; however, output length may be limited depending on the application.

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