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Specifies how the document is positioned on the page. Portrait orients the paper vertically. Landscape rotates the paper 90 degrees clockwise. If available, Rotated rotates the paper 90 degrees counter-clockwise.


Specifies whether to reduce or enlarge documents, and by what percentage. Specifying less than 100 percent reduces the document, specifying more than 100 percent enlarges it. When you enlarge a document, only the portion of the document that fits on the page will print.


Specifies the number of copies to print and, if your printer supports it, whether to collate the copies. When collated, pages of each copy of the document print consecutively. When not collated, copies of each page print together.


Specifies the type of printing medium you want to use. Do not click Transparency/HP Special Paper when printing on regular paper. This may waste ink and cause smearing.


Specifies color or monochrome output.


Specifies double-sided printing. To print on only one side of the paper, click None. To print on both sides of the paper, click Short Side or Long Side. Short Side prints pages that read by flipping over like a calendar. Long Side prints pages that read like a book. (Your printer may use different terms for the duplex options, such as Short Edge Binding and Long Edge Binding or Duplex Tumble and Duplex No Tumble.)


Specifies the print resolution. Measured in “dots per inch,” higher resolutions (600 dpi) produce graphic images that are sharper and show finer detail, while lower resolutions (180 dpi) permit faster printing and less detail.


Specifies where the paper you want to use is located in the printer. Different printer models support different paper sources, such as upper tray, envelope feed, cassette, and manual feed.

If you click Automatically Select, the printer uses the paper tray that supports the paper size you have chosen. If you choose a paper source other than Automatically Select, make sure that the correct form (paper size) is assigned to the paper source.


Specifies the form being used.


Specifies the TrueType font options. Click Substitute with Device Font (the default) to use equivalent PostScript fonts for printing documents that contain TrueType fonts. This will permit faster printing. However, you might lose special characters not supported by the PostScript font. Click Download as Softfont to download TrueType fonts for printing instead of using PostScript fonts.


Specifies whether metafile spooling is enabled. When metafile spooling is enabled, print files are placed in a queue for later printing. For normal printing, leave metafile spooling set to the default (Disabled).


Specifies how many pages of your document to print on one piece of paper. For example, Normal (one-up) prints one page on one sheet of paper, while Two-up (1x2) prints two pages side by side on one sheet of paper.

This option is ignored if you print an Encapsulated PostScript (EPS) file.


Specifies the order in which the pages of your document will be printed. Normal Order prints the document so that page 1 is on top of the stack. Reverse Order prints the document so that page 1 is on the bottom of the stack.


Displays or hides the available Image Color Matching options used for printing color graphics.


Specifies how to print your color graphics.

If you don’t want to enable Image Color Matching, click ICM Disabled.

If you want the host computer to control Image Color Matching, click ICM Handled by Host System.

If you want your printer (which must be PostScript language level 2 or higher) to control Image Color Matching, click ICM Handled by Printer.


Specifies how you want your color images created to produce the best-looking image on the printed page.

If you are printing a chart or using fully saturated, bright colors, it’s best to click Business Graphics.

For photographs or pictures where the colors blend together, click Images to maximize the contrast.

If your document uses a color that you need to match exactly, and you are sending the document to a printer that has that specific color of ink, click Business Logos.

If you want to preview the color settings from another printer, click Color Proofing.


Specifies the output format for PostScript files. Generally, you will use Optimize for Speed for printing your documents.

To create a file that conforms to the Adobe Document Structuring Conventions (ADSC), click Optimize for Portability. Each page of the document will be a fully self-contained object. This is useful if you want to create a PostScript file and print it on a different printer.

If you want to include the file as an image in another document that will be printed from a different program, click Encapsulated PostScript (EPS).

Archive Format creates a PostScript data stream that is stored in a file you can use later.


 Specifies how TrueType fonts are downloaded. Generally, you would click Automatic to let the PostScript driver decide which format is best. To download the TrueType font as a scalable outline font (Type 1), click Outline. To download the TrueType font as a bitmap font (Type 3/Type 32), click Bitmap. If your printer is a TrueType rasterizer printer, click Native TrueType (Type 42) to download the TrueType font as an outline font.


Displays or hides the available PostScript options.


 Specifies which PostScript language level to use. To optimize your printer features, make sure that the PostScript language level is set to the highest level that your printer supports. Only consider using a lower PostScript language level if a printing problem occurs. The driver automatically chooses as the default value the highest PostScript language level supported by the selected printer.


Specifies whether a PostScript error handler message is sent. If you want the printer to print an error page when an error occurs in the print job, click Yes. If not, click No.


Specifies mirrored output. Click Yes to print a mirror image of your document by reversing the horizontal coordinates.


Specifies negative output. Click Yes to print a negative of the image by complementing the RGB values or by reversing values for black and white.


Specifies whether to compress graphics before sending your document to the printer. The following options apply only when you are using a level-1 printer. In level-2 and higher printers, bitmap compression is always enabled.

If you are using PostScript level 1 and a printer connected to a serial port, click Compress bitmaps, and then click Yes.

If you are using PostScript level 1 and a printer connected to a parallel port, or a network printer, click Compress bitmaps, and then click No.


Displays device-specific printing options, such as Page Protection and Resolution Enhancement options. For more information, see your printing device documentation.


Specifies the amount of available PostScript memory. The available PostScript memory is a subset of your total physical memory. The driver uses this information when performing printing tasks, such as sending fonts from the computer to the printer.

If the value here doesn’t match the amount of memory on your printer and printing problems arise, you might need to change the memory setting. It is usually best to use the default setting, which is determined by your printing device manufacturer.


Allows non-1252 code page systems to print. This option, available only on printers not in a United States locale, tells the printer to ignore the resident device (PostScript) fonts and use TrueType fonts.


Displays the font-substitution table and options for changing the TrueType-to-PostScript font mapping.


Specifies TrueType font options. Click Don’t Substitute (the default) to download TrueType fonts (soft fonts)for printing instead of using PostScript fonts. To substitute PostScript fonts for TrueType fonts when printing documents that contain TrueType fonts, click a font name.


Displays the form-to-tray assignments.

A form defines a paper size and the widths of margins. Many printing devices support more than one source of paper, such as upper and lower trays. You can assign a form to each of your printing device paper sources. Once a form is matched to a source, you can select the form when you print from your applications. The printing device prints from the source that is matched with that form.


Displays the form-to-tray assignment. Once you have assigned a form to a specific tray, the printer will always use that tray to print the form.


Specifies how long the document can take to get from the computer to the printer before the printer stops trying to print the document.

A value of zero means that the job is never canceled. If your printer is shared, do not specify a value of zero.


Specifies how long the printer will wait to get more PostScript information from the computer. After the specified time passes, the printer stops trying to print the document and prints an error message. If you are trying to print a very complicated document, you may want to increase this value.

A value of zero means that the job is never canceled. If your printer is shared, do not specify a value of zero.


Lists the device-specific printing options that you can install in your printer. For more information on these options, see your printing device documentation.


Specifies the protocol the printer will use for print jobs.

When you click ASCII, data is sent in ASCII format (7-bit), which may take longer to print but can be sent through any I/O channel, such as a serial, parallel, or network port. When you click BCP (Binary Communications Protocol) or TBCP (Tagged Binary Communications Protocol), all data except special control characters is sent in binary (8-bit) format. The binary formats can be sent over parallel or serial communications ports and are faster than sending data in ASCII format.


Specifies the minimum font size (in pixels) for which the PostScript driver will download TrueType fonts as outline (Type 1) fonts. A font smaller than the minimum setting will be downloaded as a bitmap (Type 3/Type 32) font.

This option lets you fine-tune the Automatic setting for the TrueType Font Download option on the Advanced tab in the Document Properties dialog box.


Specifies the maximum font size (in pixels) for which the PostScript driver will download TrueType fonts as bitmap (Type 3/Type 32) fonts. A font larger than the maximum setting will be downloaded as an outline (Type 1) font.

This option lets you fine-tune the Automatic setting or override the bitmap (Type 3/Type 32) setting for the TrueType Font Download option on the Advanced tab in the Document Properties dialog box.


Specifies whether a CTRL+D character should be sent at the beginning of every PostScript document (No default).

CTRL+D at the beginning-of-file (BOF) will reset your printer connected through parallel or serial ports to its default setting to ensure that prior print jobs won’t affect the current print job. CTRL+D may cause a print job to fail if your printer is connected through a network. If your document fails to print when sent to a printer connected through parallel or serial ports, change No to Yes.


Specifies whether a CTRL+D character should be sent at the end of every PostScript document (Yes default).

CTRL+D at the end-of-file (EOF) will reset your printer connected through parallel or serial ports to its default setting to ensure that future print jobs won’t be affected by the current print job. CTRL+D may cause a print job to fail if your printer is connected through a network. If your document fails to print when sent to a network printer, change Yes to No.


When printing black or gray text, uses shades of black ink rather than a mixture of other ink colors. For many CMYK-based color printers this gives you sharper text and faster printing.


When printing black or gray graphics, uses shades of black ink rather than a mixture of other ink colors. For many CMYK-based color printers this gives you sharper graphics and faster printing. Disable this feature if it results in color artifacts.


Adds the European currency symbol to most PostScript fonts in your job.


Specifies the width of your custom paper size.


Specifies the length of your custom paper size.


Specifies that you are using inches as the unit of measure.


Specifies that you are using millimeters as the unit of measure.


Specifies that you are using points as the unit of measure.


Specifies the direction the paper is fed into the printer. Choose from Long Edge Left, Long Edge Right, Short Edge Top, or Short Edge Bottom depending on the paper you are using. For instance, if you print on letterhead paper, you would want to specify the correct feed direction so that the text is not printed upside down on the page.


Specifies that you are using cut sheets of paper. Usually only one option, Cut Sheet or Roll Feed, will be available on a printer.


Specifies that you are using a roll of paper. Usually only one option, Cut Sheet or Roll Feed, will be available on a printer.


Specifies where the page for your document should start, relative to the edge of the paper that is perpendicular to the feed direction. For example, you may not want the edge of your document to be placed on the edge of the roll or sheet of paper. This lets you specify how far away from the edge it should be placed.


Specifies where the page for your document should start, relative to the edge of the paper that is parallel to the feed direction. For example, you may not want the edge of your document to be placed on the edge of the roll or sheet of paper. This lets you specify how far away from the edge it should be placed.


Closes the dialog box and saves any changes you have made.


Closes the dialog box without saving any changes you have made.


Resets the options in the dialog box to the original settings.