To change the target printer, click the printer name in the Print Document dialog box. The box opens to show the list of installed printers. You can then select a different target printer.
Setting the Printer's Properties
To open the property sheet for the selected printer, click Properties in the Print Document dialog box. You can make changes such as changing the orientation (portrait or landscape) and scaling the printout.
The PostScript Options area lets you set up output of a PostScript file. First, you can select the language level, and indicate whether or not to include fonts. You should clear the Download Fonts option only if your document's fonts have already been downloaded to the printer; this can greatly reduce the size of the file. The Binary Image Encoding option will also reduce file size if your document contains any bitmap images.
Use the Separation Options to produce an EPS file with color separation information. For PostScript level 3, you can specify that separation be applied to CMYK plates only or all plates.
Under Pages, select Current to print only the current page, All to print all pages in the active document, or Range to print specific pages.
In the box under Range, type a page number to print a specific page. Enter a range with the first and last pages separated by a hyphen to print a sequence of pages. To specify a page tile, enter a page number, a colon, and a tile number. Separate page numbers and ranges with commas.
Specifying the Number of Copies
The Copies option is where you enter the number of copies to print. If more than one, you can collate the pages.
The Collate option in the Print Document dialog box prints a complete copy of a document before printing the next copy. Collate is only available when you print more than one copy of a multiple-page document. Collating can slow the print speed on some printers.
The Page Label option prints the file name, page number, and page name (if any; right-click the page tab to change the name).
The Mirror option flips a drawing so that it prints reversed--as though you were viewing it in a mirror. Use this option to print T-shirt transfers or other drawings that must be given to a print shop reversed.
The Mirror option is available in the Print Document dialog box only with certain printer drivers. This option is gray if the printer driver does not support mirroring.
Vector clipping improves the output of drawings on pen plotters by causing the top object of overlapping drawings to completely cover the back object (this is done automatically with non-plotting printers).
Vector clipping also prevents the damage to plotter pens that can occur when different colors are drawn over each other. For example, a yellow line drawn over a black line can permanently stain the yellow pen.
The Vector Clipping option in the Print Document dialog box is available only when you are using a plotter. This option increases the time it takes to plot your drawing.
Fitting a Document to the Page
If the page size is too large for the target printer's paper size, Designer reduces the drawing proportionally so that all of it fits inside the printable area when Fit to Page in the Print Document dialog box is selected. If this option is not selected, the drawing is tiled on as many pages as necessary to print the drawing.
Centering a Printout on the Page
The Center on Page option causes the contents of each page in the document to be aligned to page center and page middle for this printout only. Center on Page in the Print Document dialog box is especially useful if your page size is smaller than your paper size; for example, an on-screen presentation that you want to print out on 8.5" x 11" paper.