Use this page to test the capabilities of your printer and printer driver.
If some of the features on this page are printed incorrectly,
try altering some of the settings available to your
printer driver in the Windows Control Panel.
If this is still unsuccessful, try contacting your printer manufacturer
or Microsoft for a more up to date printer driver.
Some printer drivers can incorrectly print text that should be hidden by an opaque frame. The frames below will
determine if you have this particular printer driver limitation.
If your printout suffers from this problem
you need to hide text under
an opaque frame, we suggest turning 'Print TrueType as graphics' on, if your printer driver supports this option.
Some printer drivers can also print transparent fill patterns incorrectly. The graphics objects in the frames below will
determine if you have this particular printer driver limitation.
Text with expanded or compressed widths is not printed correctly by some printer drivers. If your printout suffers
from this problem
you need to print text with expanded or compressed widths
, we
suggest turning 'Print TrueType as graphics' on, if your printer driver supports this option.
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Use this page to check and adjust the printing position and alignment of your printer.
First ensure that your printer is correctly set up using the Windows Control Panel.
Print out page 1 of this file
The crop marks on this page are positioned at the corners of the column guides, as set up on the Column Guides dialog box
(Page menu). When printed out correctly, their position on the page should match the values on that dialog.
The crop mark positions should be:
Top left crop mark = 1 inch from top, 0.75 inches
from left.
Top right crop mark = 1 inch
from top, 0.75 inches from right.
Bottom left crop mark = 0.75 inches from bottom,
0.75 inches
from left
Bottom right crop mark = 0.75 inches from bottom,
0.75 inches
from right.
Using a ruler, measure the position of the top left crop mark on your printed page. If its position is not what it should be, calculate the difference between the actual and correct position and enter these values in the horizontal and vertical adjustment fields on the Column Guides dialog. For example if the top left crop mark has printed out 1.25 inches from the top, and 1 inch
from
the left, you would have to enter a vertical adjustment of 0.25 inches
up, and a horizontal adjustment of 0.25 inches
left.
Print out page 1 again, and this time all of the crop marks should be printed out in their correct positi
You should save the new printer offsets as part of your default template,
so that you do not have to readjust
them each time you create a new document.
Notes:
The white margin between the shaded areas and the edge of the page indicates the non-printing area of your printer.
This document was designed for Letter size paper; when using other paper sizes, e.g. 8.5 x 14.0
, Legal paper size, you must create a document designed around the same principles.
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Windows ANSI Character Set
These characters can be accessed within Pressworks
mode by positioning the cursor and then holding down
key
and typing 0 followed by the appropriate decimal number on the numeric key pad.
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The text in this frame should not be visible through the opaque
frame on top.
The text in this frame should be visible through the
transparent frame on top.
Transparent
Opaque
The square in the frame to the right
has a transparent fill pat
tern.
The square in the frame to the right
has an opaque fill pattern.
Coloured text may not be supported by your printer driver. The following text will test this.
Green
Blue
Cyan
Magenta
Yellow
Black
White
Notes:
Turning 'Print TrueType as graphics' on, will increase the printing time, so you should only choose this method if you actually need to.
YELLOW
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The text in this frame is 50% of its normal width. These words will overlap if this feature is not supported by your printer driver.
The text in this frame is 150% of its normal width. These words will be spaced apart if this feature is not supported by your printer driver
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