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Lets talk about printing, shall we? I'll begin by what is a consistent gotcha among my newcomer students; that is to say my students who are fairly new to Office applications in general and Visio in particular. And that is when you're ready to print, unless you know that you want to send one full copy of the currently opened drawing to your default printer, don't hit this print button on the standard tool bar. And you'll notice that if I hover over it, it says print page and then in parentheses, at least in Vista here, it gives us the name of our default printer. Now, the default printer designation is important because in a business environment, your computer may be configured to print to several different devices at your office. So your default printer may or may not be the best choice for you at any given point in time. On the other hand, if you're a home user, you probably have just a single print device, so maybe that doesn't make that big of a difference. Regardless, let's say you wanted to print only part of a document, or if you wanted to print multiple copies of the document. These cases, among others, require that we have access to the print dialog box. So that's what we'll cover right now. We know now that the print button doesn't give us any options. It uses all our current default settings for our default printer. But however, if we open the file menu and select print, that's a different story. Well, notice also that options in your menus that do have keyboard equivalents are shown in the same row as the command; namely, the print command here, you'll see I'm pointing to it, can also be invoked at any time within Visio by clicking control P. Alright. Now here's the print dialog box in Visio. It's pretty standard issue actually. First we have our printer name and if we open that drop-down list, we'll see a list of local and remote print devices that we're configured to use. You'll notice that I have an office printer on my network named Fiery; I have the full version of Adobe Acrobat installed so I can print to the Adobe pdf distiller printer so I can have a pdf file as my output and so on. I'm going to leave this at Cannon Bubble Jet. What else do we have? We can suppress the background from being printed. We can force full color to render as grayscale or just black. And finally, we can print to an intermediate format, print to a file if we don't have an actually physical printer installed and we can just take the file to another location and spool it out to a printer there. We don't need to worry about that, though. What else do we have? Our page range, by default the entire file will be printed, but we can just select current page if what we have on our screen currently is what we need. Number of copies; we can simply crank that up as high as we want to or as low as we want to, if we want just a single copy. Finally, if you want to customize the properties of the printer itself, for instance, let's say we wanted to print in draft output in order to save ink or toner on our print device, we would, number one; select the appropriate printer from the list and number two, click properties. We'll then be given a dialog box that we can use to tweak that particular printer. Now, this is the property sheet for the Canon Bubble Jet that I have configured. Your mileage may vary here; that is to say the specific options you see will vary depending upon the print device you're using. However, most of the options are about the same and the quality settings is probably one of the most uniform. For instance, I could set this to draft to conserve ink. So we'll click OK and come back here and as soon as I click OK, this print job will proceed to the selected printer. To cancel the job, before you've submitted it that is, we can use either the close button in the upper right or we can select close from the print dialog box.