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Let's take a look at how we're going to get some artwork out of your computer and onto some paper. So what you can do to access the printing options is to either press Command or Control and the letter P on your keyboard for Paul, or go to the file menu and choose print. And then you're presented with this dialog box. I'm going to talk about the most commonly used settings because, well if you have a consumer based printer as I do and not a postscript printer many of the options won't be available anyway such as the postscript definitions here. So I can choose to work with my default printer or custom settings. I can also choose the printer from this list here. As you see I'm working with a Photosmart C4200 Series. I can also choose to work with PDF, which we'll talk about later. Then I can choose some of the options here. For example, how many copies do I want to print? For now one is great, but if I want to make 20 that's good too. Then I can also choose to work with media, and of course the find by driver means that my printer is going to pretty much determine the default settings for me. I can also choose from some of these other settings, and there's quite a few in there as you see. And in some of the options you'll see that we have some borderless settings. Now every printer is not going to be able to print that way, so make sure your printer can do a borderless printout first. Now we can also determine a width and height if we go ahead and put our own custom settings in there. We can also choose an orientation. So we have the portrait up here, we also have some landscape options, upside down or we can do all kinds of cool stuff. What I can also do is I can print layers, so I can choose to print visible layers, all layers, and visible and printable layers. I can also determine whether I want the media to scale or not, or to fit the page by clicking on this button here. And you're presented with exactly the scale right here. And this is something Mr. Spock would love, 92 point 6768 percent Captain. Then I can choose Do not scale again. The weird thing about when you choose to either put a custom scale or fit the page and then select Do not scale again is that Illustrator will all of a sudden put your artwork off kilter so it's all over the place like this. Fortunately I can click and drag in here, or simply double click to put it back in the center. So once again, you can move it around to determine what part of the artwork you'd like to print, or you double click to put it back in the center. And once you're happy with that, you can choose page setup, or you can save this preset and then you can simply select Print. And then once you do that, your artwork will then come out from your printer, hopefully, if you have ink. I run out all the time, and ink is a little pricy people. But of course the printer costs five dollars, so I can't complain. But anyway, once you're finished you can save this preset for later on, and when you click Done, all of your settings will be saved for you.