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Printing items

You can print items from either the PaperPort desktop or Image View window.


To print an item on the PaperPort desktop

  1. On the PaperPort desktop, select the item.

  2. Drag and drop the item to the printer icon on the Send To bar.

    — or —

    Click on the PaperPort button and choose Print.

    —or —

    Click the right mouse button, and on the shortcut menu, click Print.
     

  3. In thePrint dialog box, select the print options you want.

  4. Click OK.


To print an item in the Image View window

  1. Display the item in the Image View window.

  2. Click on the PaperPort button and choose Print.

  3. In thePrint dialog box, select the print options you want.

  4. Click OK.

Tips

Click on the PaperPort button and choose Print Setup to display the Printer dialog box. To print the image as is, clear the Include item name checkbox. To prevent annotations from printing, clear the Include annotations checkbox.

For changing the default print options, see Send To Options: Printer.


To print multiple items on a single page

You can print multiple items on a single page. This feature is especially useful when you have several items, such as photographs, receipts, or business cards, that you want to incorporate onto a single printed page.

  1. Click on the PaperPort button and choose Print Setup.

    The Printer dialog box appears.
     

  2. In the Pages per sheet box, specify the number of items you want to include on each printed sheet.

  3. Select Resize Page to Fit if you want to reduce an image to print within the standard page margins.

    Clear this checkbox if you want to print items exactly as they appear on a page even if some text is outside the standard page margins. This is useful for legal contracts that have line numbers.
     

  4. Select Auto-orient Page for Best Fit to help ensure that all items fit on the page. This setting lets PaperPort determine the best page orientation, landscape or portrait.

  5. Specify other print settings as appropriate to the task at hand. For details, see Send To Options: Printer.

  6. You can now send the items to the printer. Select each individual item on the desktop and then: 

Tip

Follow the same procedure to print all pages in a multi-page item on the same printed page. Instead of selecting each item you want to print, select the multi-page item and drag it to the Printer icon on the Send To bar.