Enhanced Printing Options Dialog

Use the Enhanced Printing Options dialog to customize the printed job by setting layout, alignment, gutter control, and margin options. To display the Enhanced Printing Options dialog from the Print dialog, click the Options button.

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The following fields are on the Enhanced Printing Options dialog:

Enhanced Options Check box:

Select or clear the Enhanced Options check box to enable or disable enhanced printing options.

Layout Group

Layout Drop-down list box

Use the Layout drop-down list box to specify which layout type to use. It contains the following options:

Single: Prints one page on each sheet of the paper. This option will modify the print job to include the specified border and margin information.
Double: Prints two pages per sheet of paper. This option saves paper. It also supports other options such as Gutter, Stationery, etc. This option is good for drafts and emails.
4 X: Prints four pages per sheet of paper. This option saves paper and also supports other options. Good to use with large text documents since less paper needs to be stored or archived. You can change the page ordet.
8 X: Prints eight pages per sheet of paper. This option saves paper. You can change the page order within the sheet of paper. This option is suited for presentations.
16 X: Prints sixteen pages per sheet of paper. This option saves paper. You can change the page order within the sheet of paper. This is a preferred option in presentations or when printing to large sheets of paper.
Booklet: Creates a double-sided book print out.

The Layout drop-down list box is only available if the Enhanced Options check box is selected.

Repeat Check box

Select the Repeat check box to the same page to be repeated in each slot of the paper sheet. For example, if the layout is 8 X, each of the 8 slots on the page will contain the selected page.

This option is only available if the Enhanced Options check box is selected and the Layout value is Double, 4x, 8x, or 16x.

Ordering Group

Horizontal Radio button

Select the Horizontal radio button to increment the pages in left-to-right row-order as illustrated below in this 8 X layout:

1	2	3	4
5	6	7	8

This option is only available if the Enhanced Options check box is selected and the Layout value is 4x, 8x, or 16x.

Vertical Radio button

Select the Vertical radio button to increment the pages in top-to-bottom column-order as illustrated below in this 8 X layout:

1	3	5	7
2	4	6	8

This option is only available if the Enhanced Options check box is selected and the Layout value is 4x, 8x, or 16x.

PDF Radio button

Select the PDF radio button to reverse the column (vertical) sequence order.

This option is only available if the Enhanced Options check box is selected and the Layout value is 4x, 8x, 16x, or Double with Portrait orientation.

R-L Radio button

Select the R-L radio button to reverse the ordering of pages from left side to the right side within a page. This option is used when a Middle Eastern or other bi-directional language version of Windows is being used.

This option is only available if the Enhanced Options check box is selected and the Layout value is 4x, 8x, 16x, Booklet, or Double with Landscape orientation.

Borders Drop-down list box:

Use the Borders drop-down list box to indicate whether to draw a border around the pages. It contains the following values:

Off: Drawing borders is turned off.
Auto: Borders are drawn according to the Ordering settings. This means that if the ordering was set to Vertical, a frame will be drawn around each column of pages in the sheet of paper and the pages will be ordered top to bottom. For example, if the layout is 8 X and the ordering option is down the pages will appear like this:

If the layout is 8 X and the ordering option is across, a frame will be drawn around each row:

1 2 3 4

5 6 7 8

On: Drawing borders around each page like the case shown below where the layout is set to 4 X up and the ordering is set to across.

1	2
3	4

The Auto value will not be available in the Borders Drop-down list box if the Layout Drop-down list box is set to single.

This option is only available if the Enhanced Options check box is selected.

Alignment Group

Best Fit Check box

Select this check box to specify whether to use the Best Fit or the stretch option.

When this check box is selected, the document will be placed so as to best fit on the page. When this check box is clear, the document will be stretched on the page.

This option is only available if the Enhanced Options check box is selected.

Horizontal Align Group

Use this group of controls to set horizontal alignment.

Left Radio button

Select this radio button to set the document so it uses left alignment.