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                <br clear="both" /><div id="minitoc"><div class="t"><div class="b"><div class="l"><div class="r"><div class="bl"><div class="br"><div class="tl"><div class="tr"><div><h3>Contents [<a href="#" onclick="return toggleMiniToc('minitoc-links', this);" class="hideLink">Hide</a>]</h3><ul id="minitoc-links"><li><p><a href="#WSa285fff53dea4f8617383751001ea8cb3f-7094a"><h4 class="topictitle4">Page printing options</h4>
</a></p></li><li><p><a href="#WSa285fff53dea4f8617383751001ea8cb3f-7091a"><h4 class="topictitle4">Options for printing objects</h4>
</a></p></li></ul></div></div><br clear="both" /></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br clear="both" /><div><ol><li class="stepexpand"><span>Make
sure that you’ve installed the correct driver and PPD for your printer.</span></li>
<li class="stepexpand"><span>Open the Print dialog box:</span><ul><li><p>If you have individual documents open,
choose File&#160;&gt; Print. This opens the Print dialog box
for the current document.</p>
</li>
<li><p>If you have either no documents or all documents
selected in the Book panel, choose Print Book in the Book panel
menu. This will print all documents in a book.</p>
</li>
<li><p>If you have some documents selected in the Book
panel, choose Print Selected Documents in the Book panel menu.</p>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li class="stepexpand"><span>Specify the printer you’re using in the Printer menu.
If a printer preset has the settings you want, choose it in the
Print Preset menu.</span></li>
<li class="stepexpand"><span>In the General area, type the number of copies to print,
choose whether to collate pages or print them in reverse order,
and indicate which pages you want printed.</span> <div class="note"><span class="notetitle">Note:  </span>The Page Range option is unavailable if you’re printing
a book.</div>
</li>
<li class="stepexpand"><span>Indicate whether you want to print nonprinting objects,
blank pages, or visible guides and baseline grids.</span></li>
<li class="stepexpand"><span>Adjust settings as needed for each area of the Print
dialog box. </span></li>
<li class="stepexpand"><span>Click Print. </span></li>
</ol>
<div class="section"><p>Settings you specify in the Print dialog box are saved
with the document.</p>
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<div id="WSa285fff53dea4f8617383751001ea8cb3f-7094a" class="nochunk"><a name="WSa285fff53dea4f8617383751001ea8cb3f-7094a"></a><h3 class="topictitle3">Page printing options</h3><div><div class="section"><p>You
can print all pages, even or odd pages only, a series of individual
pages, or a contiguous range.</p>
<dl><dt class="dlterm">Range</dt>
<dd>Specifies the range of pages to print in the current document.
Indicate numbers in a range by using a hyphen, and indicate multiple
pages or ranges by using commas or spaces. (See <a href="WSBD585D74-2781-4661-B268-6863A0209CADa.html">Specifying pages to print</a>.)</dd><p class="dlseparator"></p><dt class="dlterm">Sequence</dt>
<dd>Choose All Pages to print all pages of a document. Choose
Even Pages Only or Odd Pages Only to print only those pages within
the specified range. These options are unavailable when you are
using the Spreads or Print Master Pages options.</dd><p class="dlseparator"></p><dt class="dlterm">Spreads</dt>
<dd>Prints pages together, as if they were bound, or printed
on the same sheet. You can print only one spread per sheet. If the
new page is larger than the currently selected paper size, InDesign
prints as much as it can, but won’t automatically scale the page
to fit the <dfn class="term">imageable</dfn> area, unless you select Scale
To Fit in the Setup area of the Print dialog box. You may also want
to specify landscape orientation.<div class="note"><span class="notetitle">Note:  </span>If different
trapping styles are applied to pages in the spread, InDesign resolves the
differences.</div>
</dd><p class="dlseparator"></p><dt class="dlterm">Print Master Pages</dt>
<dd>Prints all master pages, rather than document pages. Selecting
this option makes the Ranges option unavailable.</dd><p class="dlseparator"></p></dl>
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<div class="section"><h4 class="sectiontitle">Examples of page ranges</h4>
<div class="tablenoborder"><table border="1" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0"><thead align="left"><tr><th valign="top" width="NaN%" id="d16e43954"><p>Page range </p>
</th>
<th valign="top" width="NaN%" id="d16e43957"><p>Pages printed</p>
</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody><tr><td valign="top" width="NaN%" headers="d16e43954 "><p>11-</p>
</td>
<td valign="top" width="NaN%" headers="d16e43957 "><p>Page 11 to the last page of the document.</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr><td valign="top" width="NaN%" headers="d16e43954 "><p>-11</p>
</td>
<td valign="top" width="NaN%" headers="d16e43957 "><p>All pages up to and including page 11.</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr><td valign="top" width="NaN%" headers="d16e43954 "><p>+11</p>
</td>
<td valign="top" width="NaN%" headers="d16e43957 "><p>Page 11 only.</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr><td valign="top" width="NaN%" headers="d16e43954 "><p>-+11</p>
</td>
<td valign="top" width="NaN%" headers="d16e43957 "><p>All pages up to and including page 11.</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr><td valign="top" width="NaN%" headers="d16e43954 "><p>+11-</p>
</td>
<td valign="top" width="NaN%" headers="d16e43957 "><p>All pages from the eleventh page to the
end of document.</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr><td valign="top" width="NaN%" headers="d16e43954 "><p>1, 3-8,</p>
</td>
<td valign="top" width="NaN%" headers="d16e43957 "><p>Page 1, plus pages 3 to 8.</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr><td valign="top" width="NaN%" headers="d16e43954 "><p>+1, +3-+8,</p>
</td>
<td valign="top" width="NaN%" headers="d16e43957 "><p>Page 1, plus pages 3 to 8.</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr><td valign="top" width="NaN%" headers="d16e43954 "><p>Sec1</p>
</td>
<td valign="top" width="NaN%" headers="d16e43957 "><p>All pages in section labeled “Sec1”.</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr><td valign="top" width="NaN%" headers="d16e43954 "><p>Sec2:7</p>
</td>
<td valign="top" width="NaN%" headers="d16e43957 "><p>Page numbered 7 (not necessarily the seventh
page of that section) in section labeled “Sec2.”</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr><td valign="top" width="NaN%" headers="d16e43954 "><p>PartB:7-</p>
</td>
<td valign="top" width="NaN%" headers="d16e43957 "><p>Page numbered 7 in section labeled “PartB”
to last page of section.</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr><td valign="top" width="NaN%" headers="d16e43954 "><p>Chap2:7-Chap3</p>
</td>
<td valign="top" width="NaN%" headers="d16e43957 "><p>Page 7 in section labeled “Chap2” to end
of section labeled “Chap3”.</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr><td valign="top" width="NaN%" headers="d16e43954 "><p>Sec4:3-Sec4:6, Sec3:7</p>
</td>
<td valign="top" width="NaN%" headers="d16e43957 "><p>Pages 3–6 in “Sec4” and page 7 in “Sec3”.</p>
</td>
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<div id="WSa285fff53dea4f8617383751001ea8cb3f-7091a" class="nochunk"><a name="WSa285fff53dea4f8617383751001ea8cb3f-7091a"></a><h3 class="topictitle3">Options for printing objects</h3><div><div class="section"><p>The
General area of the Print dialog box contains options for printing
elements usually visible only on-screen, such as grids and guides.
Choose from the following options:</p>
<dl><dt class="dlterm">Print Layers</dt>
<dd>Determine which layers are printed. (See <a href="WSC468E092-6078-4fcc-9739-A9CCE50EB732a.html">Choose which layers are printed or exported to PDF</a>.)</dd><p class="dlseparator"></p><dt class="dlterm">Print Non-printing Objects</dt>
<dd>Prints all objects, regardless of your settings to selectively
prevent individual objects from printing. </dd><p class="dlseparator"></p><dt class="dlterm">Print Blank Pages</dt>
<dd>Prints all pages in the specified page range, even if no
text or objects appear on a page. This option is unavailable when
you are printing separations. If you are using Print Booklet for
composite printing, use the Print Blank Printer Spreads option to
print blank spreads added to fill out composite signatures.</dd><p class="dlseparator"></p><dt class="dlterm">Print Visible Guides and Baseline Grids</dt>
<dd>Prints visible guides and grids in the same color as shown
in the document. You can control which guides and grids are visible
in the View menu. This option is unavailable when you are printing separations.</dd><p class="dlseparator"></p></dl>
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