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I'm going to round off this brief Chapter by talking about printing from InDesign. Now, I very, very rarely print directly from InDesign anymore. What I tend to do is create a PDF file, then I would just check it. For some reason it looks different in PDF and you spot errors that you don't see on the page, so I like to create a PDF file and then go through and print it. Now, we've already covered Export to PDF so you know how to do that, but let's just talk about printing here. Now, some things are dependent on what printer you're using, and I've just got a simple black and white printer hooked up to this particular computer, so that's the only one we're going to be dealing with here. If you want to print, go File, Print. And, here we have the printer that I've got set up here, it's a network printer, and we can choose the Number of Copies, Reverse the Order, Print the Pages, we can choose a Range, for example, if we want to mix up a range I can do 1 comma 3 -5 comma 7 if I don't want to print contiguous pages. So let me just delete that and we'll just go back to All. Down here we have this little thumbnail that shows us how things are going to print and here we have this line starting up a little bit here and going off, and that's telling me not everything's going to print on the page because laser jets can only print 8 and a half by 11. It can't print bigger and some things won't fit on the page. So, we can choose to print All Pages, Odd-Even Pages, and we can even opt to print Blank pages or non-printing objects, you can override the Non-Printing settings you may have used. Then we go to the Setup, we've got the Orientation, Portrait, Landscape, Upside Down, Landscape the other direction, the Paper Size, and that should really be based on the document that you have and the size of the paper in your printer. A nice thing you can do is you can Scale it, just so that it fits on the paper, just Scale to Fit takes care of that, there we can see our little Icon has changed and here we are at 93 point 92 percent. Let me just go down here and we can create the thumbnails. So, if we want to have multiple pages on the same page, printed page, then we could do that. We've got that 1 by 2, 3 by 3, 7 by 7, whatever we want to print like that if we want to use thumbnails. Tiling is an option if you've got a very large page. Say you're doing a poster 24 by 36 it's not going to print in 8 and a half by 11, but you can print it out on actual size on different pieces of paper and then get the old X-acto knife out and tape it all together again, it'll overlap your images so that you can join them up later. I'll turn that off. Marks and Bleeds, you can add Marks and Bleeds, or Printer's Marks, you can just turn off any that you don't really need here, but sometimes you may want to look at Crop Marks certainly for printing on your laser just to make sure you've got enough bleed there. Let me choose Scale to Fit here so that it makes more sense, and we can print the, use the document Bleed settings here, on or off, or we can just set one ourselves. Then we get into the more advanced features here. You're probably not going to deal too much with it here: Composite RGB, or Composite Gray, and because we're printing to this printer it's not going to let us choose CMYK because this printer can't do it here. And, you could also choose what inks to print if you were printing to a different printer. Graphics Optimize Sub-sampling: this is a good one just for a laser printer. There's no point in printing out a 300 dpi image on a laser printer because it just can't handle all that information and it's only a proof so you can choose to print it all if you want, but you're not going to see a better result. For Proof Printing, just choose Optimize Sub-sampling. If you were printing the high-resolution printing you would certainly choose All here. We're not going to use Color Management here, that's something, again, that you're going to use in a work group and dealing with your commercial printer. Some advanced options here, here we have our Transparency Flattener, which we saw before. Definitely want to print it at High Resolution for Final Copy but Medium Resolution would work fine for just an ink jet. You have a Summary of the Details you're going to do. You can save them as you want, but if this is actually something you do quite a lot you can save this Preset, like this, and we'll call it again, VTC1, click on OK, and let me just cancel out of there. Now if I want to print using those settings I can go to Print Presets and there's VTC1 and all those settings that we set before are ready to go and we can just hit the Print button. You can have multiple Print Settings for different printers and different purposes, so this can be useful if you use this Print dialog box a lot, but again, as I said, exporting to PDF is probably the best way to print these days.