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Printer / Using the Printer Software for Macintosh

Modifying the Layout

Fitting your document to the paper size
Printing 2 or 4 pages on one sheet
Printing posters
Printing a watermark on your document

You can modify the page layout of your document using the printer driver settings located in the Layout dialog box, shown below. To open this dialog box, click Print on the File menu of your application and click the Layout button in the Print dialog box. The Layout dialog box appears.

The Layout dialog box allows you to automatically match the document size to the paper size, print 2 or 4 pages on a single sheet, print poster-size images by enlarging one page to cover several sheets, or place watermarks on documents.

Fitting your document to the paper size

You can proportionally enlarge or reduce the size of the image to make it fit the paper size you selected in the Paper Size list. To do this, click the Fit to Page check box and select the paper size you loaded in the Stylus Scan.


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Printing 2 or 4 pages on one sheet

To print 2 or 4 pages of your document on one sheet of paper, use the Multi-Page option in the Page Layout dialog box.

Select the Multi-Page check box and click N-up. Then make the following settings.

2 Pages
4 Pages

Prints 2 or 4 pages of your document on a single piece of paper.

Page Order

Allows you to specify the order of the pages you want to print.

Print page frames

Allows you to print a frame around each page on the sheet of paper.


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Printing posters

You can use the Poster setting in the Multi-Page option to print a poster-size image. A single document page can be enlarged to cover 4, 9, or 16 printed pages.

Select the Multi-Page check box and click Poster. Then make the following settings.

1 page covers xx sheets

Specifies how many printed pages the enlarged document page is to cover. You can select 4, 9, or 16 pages.

Print Cutting Guidelines

Prints border lines on the images to guide you when trimming the pages.

Overlapping Panels

Slightly overlaps the images so that they can be aligned more precisely.

If you only want to print a few of the panels without printing the entire poster, click Panel selection button then click the panels you don't need and click OK. Only the panels that you did not click will be printed.


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Printing a watermark on your document

To print a watermark in the background of your printed documents or images, select the Watermark check box in the Page Layout dialog box.

Select the watermark you want to print from the Watermark Name list; then select its position, size, color, and intensity. You can change the position and size of the watermark by dragging it with your mouse in the preview window on the left.

You can add your own text-based or image-based watermarks to the Watermark Name list. Follow the steps below.

Click the Add/Del button beside the Watermark Name list. Custom Watermark dialog box appears.

To use an image file as a watermark, click the Add PICT button. Select the desired image file from the list, then click Open.

Note:
Custom Watermark allows you to save PICT files as watermarks. If you have QuickTime 2.1 or higher, images in other formats can be used as watermarks because QuickTime automatically converts them to PICT files. An alert will be displayed if QuickTime encounters a graphics file that it cannot convert.

To create a text-based watermark, click the Add Text button. Enter the text in the Text box, select a font and text style, then click OK.

The image file name or the watermark text appears in the list in the watermark dialog box. To change the name of the watermark, select it from the list, then type a new name.

Click OK to add your watermark to the Watermark Name list.

Note:
When a text watermark is selected in the Watermark Name list, you can edit the text and change the font and text style by clicking the Edit Text button.


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