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Using Print Designer, you can customize your printed documents, labels, packing slips, and tags. The following actions are available to you in Print Designer:

- Add, remove, size, and position data fields, static text, bar codes, and logos

- Add borders and graphic lines

- Change the printed labels on fields

- Change the fonts used for printing

- Control certain printing characteristics, such as the behavior of headers and footers

Note that not all options are available on every template.

Point of Sale comes with default templates for each document, tag, and label type. You can directly edit the default templates or copy them and then modify the copy to create and save new templates. Once modified, templates can be exported and imported to share them with other workstations or stores.

Print Designer is not a "WYSIWYG" ("what you see is what you get") editor. As you position data fields on a design page, keep in mind that you are defining relative position, not absolute position, especially as it relates to vertical positioning. Every field that is placed on a template is not necessarily filled with data with each transaction. Many unused fields are removed from the template at the time of printing, so that the printed document does not have blank, wasted spaces. A good example of this behavior is the payment type fields included on sales receipt templates. While all of the possible payment types are included in the design, most sales only utilize one payment type, thus it is the only one actually printed.

Most document templates are separated into sections. There can be up to five different sections on a template, each with a unique printing behavior. These sections control how the printed output looks. For example, the information included in the Repeating Header section prints at the top of each page of a multi-page document, while the information in the Body Header section prints only once, near the top of the first page. Learn more about template sections and spacing.

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