Printing

Here is where you control ClipMate's printing engine. For your convenience, a preview is provided, and it will react to changes that you make. It always simulates printing the currently selected clip, so if you want the preview to reflect a bitmap, then choose a bitmap clip before bringing up the dialog.

By default, the printed page contains lots of useful information. It shows the "creator" of the clip (which application it came from), the clip title, the source URL (if it was captured from Internet Explorer), the timestamp of when the clip was captured, and on the footer, it shows the current date/time.
You can suppress the header or footer information, and you can add some additional text to the footer, such as "Printed by Mary B., in Document Prep.".

ClipMate can print either TEXT or Bitmap data, but not Rich Text Format, other graphics formats, or specialized formats.
Note: There is an interesting exception though, because HTML can be printed by viewing the HTML clip in the editor, right-clicking, and print from the right-click menu. This uses Internet Explorer's native printing support.

Here are the settings that you have:

Override Default Printer and Orientation
Here you can pick a printer from your list of installed printers, so that ClipMate always chooses a particular printer, and ignores the Windows Default setting. This is handy if you always want to route ClipMate reports to a particular printer, with a particular orientation.

Print Header?
Select to print a header containing the clip title, date/time of capture, source URL, and creator (where the clip came from). You can optionally set a title for the report, which defaults to "ClipMate Report".

Print Footer?
Select to print the footer containing the page number, the current timestamp, and some optional text. Some users use the optional text to identify the workstation or user printing the data, so that they don't need cover sheets on their network printer.

Automatically print screen shots?
Here you can have ClipMate output all screen shots captured with the PrintScr key, to the printer. Just like the good old DOS days!

QuickPrint
Normally, ClipMate will show a "print setup" dialog when you print, giving you the opportunity to select a printer, or view the Print Preview. If you don't need to see that, turn ON QuickPrint, and this step is bypassed, and the job prints without further interaction.

Font
Choose the font used to print TEXT clips. Tip: try to use a mono spaced font like Courier New. And try to keep the size small enough so that the data does not wrap prematurely by hitting the right margin before it reaches the line length in the original document.

Margins
Specify the margins in inches or CM. Note that if you switch back and forth, the conversion is made automatically. ex: 1 inch becomes 2.54 CM.

Update Preview
This button updates the preview to reflect any changes made to the settings.

Preview Toolbar
Here you can interact with some controls that the Print Preview provides. You can enter Print Setup from here, step through the pages of the job, and zoom.

Advanced
Here you can override the bitmap color depth. Only adjust if you are having trouble printing large bitmaps.

NOTE: While ClipMate can print a clip that spans multiple pages, it cannot print multiple (small) clips on a single page. This capability may be re-introduced in future release.