Specifying Document Printers & Templates

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Printers and templates for documents, tags, and labels are specified on the Documents & Printers page of workstation preferences. When specifying templates, make sure you take into consideration your printers capabilities and the size of the printer paper, i.e., do not select a "Letter" sized sales receipt template if using a 40-column receipt printer. You can also change the printer and/or template used each time you print if you set your printing preferences to display the print dialog.

To specify printers and templates in preferences:

1. From the File menu, select Preferences > Workstation.

2. Select Documents & Printers from the left-side preferences menu.

3. From the drop-down lists for each document, tag, and label type:

• Select the printer to be used

• Select a template to use

• Specify the number of copies of the document to print

4. If you want the ability to change printers or templates when printing, select the Print Options preference page and select the check box for each document type in the Print Dialog section.

Note: When printing tags, labels, and customer orders, the print dialog is always displayed, so  no checkboxes are displayed in the list for these document types.

5. Click Save.

Notes:

• If you have not specified print templates, the first time you go to print in each program area you will be prompted to select a template. The template selected will be saved to your preferences and used from that point on unless changed.

• (Pro) If the default templates do not meet your needs, you can customize them using the Print Designer. Select Print Designer from the Tools menu. If you modify a template and save it with a new name, answer Yes when prompted to make the new template the default for that document type.