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Printing the document. In between the last lesson and this lesson, I have continued through and I've set up the layout for all of my parts. We now have a clean document that's ready to print both the score and parts. As we saw, all of our parts ended up fitted on a single page, so in this case obviously it would be very easy to simply print a single sided, single page, eight and a half by eleven document. However, for our score, we can see that we are on multiple pages, we would probably want to print this so it prints front to back. A couple of notes on printing music front to back. First, we want to make sure we use a heavy enough paper that we don't have any bleed through from one side to another. It can be very distracting to a conductor to be looking at page one, but see some of the details from page two bleeding through on the other side of the page. Second, we would typically want to go with a slightly off white or an ivory coloured paper. The reason for this is that of course, an orchestra or most music is going to be played on a stage with stage lighting, bright white paper can be very blinding under a stage light and even If its legible, it can be very fatiguing to the player and conductors eyes. It's a simple courtesy to make sure we use a paper that's suitable for performance. Finally, if we were working with a document that was longer and we had multiple pages, I would typically use an eleven by seventeen tabloid size paper to print my parts on. The reason for this, is so that I can center fold and have a multi page document, that is center folded and if it were long enough potentially center folded and stapled. This eliminates the need to do any taping with parts. Of course, this does require a large format printer. Many of us as composers, who do this professionally, find that's it worth the investment in the long term to buy a large format laser printer. Of course, you can spend the time to shop around and often find one used, or simply buy a new one and balance the cost over the long term investment. Of course, to print a booklet, as you may recall we would use the Finale script tool, by going to the Plug-ins Menu, going to Finale script and going to the Finale script palette. As you can see, we have an entry for print booklet. As you may recall, the print booklet script, will format our document, so that it prints multiple pages on a single larger sheet of paper. For example, our parts are formatted for eight and a half by eleven and if we wanted to print them in a booklet form, we would print them by eleven by seventeen paper. The print booklet command will set up our document correctly, so that on one side page four will appear on the left, on the other side page one. On the reverse of that sheet, page two would appear on the left side and page three on the right, so that when we center fold it, it would appear like a booklet, with page one, two, three and four appearing in the correct order. The print booklet script will set this up for you, up to sixteen page documents. Beyond sixteen pages, we would need to alter the script, to reflect the correct number of pages in multiples of four. At this point, you should go ahead and print your document and see how close you came to the original PDF provided for you with the course. Hopefully, you should be very close based on the settings we set in the last few lessons.