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This tab enables you to define printing options. These settings affect label printing.

STORE PRINTER ON EXIT By activating this option you instruct Labeljoy to store the last used printer between sessions. The next time Labeljoy runs, the printer selection and settings will be automatically restored to the last used, regardless of the default printer setting in the system. This option is particularly useful on systems where more than one printer is installed, and one of them is dedicated to label printing. SYNC PAGE SIZE WITH THE PRINTER This option, when activated, ensures that all changes made to the page format in the layout dialog box will be applied to the current printer settings. Vice-versa, when the printer dialog box is displayed and a change is made to the paper format, all changes will be reflected to the current layout. PRINTING START POSITION Labeljoy enables you to define a printing start position on the first page other than the top-left position normally used when printing multiple row/column label sheets. This functionality is particularly useful when you want to start your printing job on a label sheet that is partially used, enabling you to fully use all those label sheets that have not been completely printed. Here you can define the row and column coordinates that control where the printing should start. For example, if you want to use a label sheet made up of 3 columns and 8 rows of labels, where the first 5 positions were previously printed, you will instruct the program to start the next printing job on row 3, column 2, so that printing will begin where the first available label is. The options are: Print row start: definition of the label row where printing should start. Print column start: definition of the label column where printing should start. Update start position after printing: by activating this option, Labeljoy will automatically set the printing start position after each print job to match the unused labels left in the last printed sheet.

Note:
The printing start position can also be set using the mouse. See the setting the print start position topic.

MAX PAGE GROUPING
Windows cannot handle printing jobs in excess of 2 GB. In such circumstances, a system error will occur. To avoid this, Labeljoy sends pages to the printer in groups, comprised of a certain number of pages. The option max page grouping enables you to define the maximum page quantity to be sent to the printer in a single print job (Min 1- Max 999).
This option is useful when sending to the printer a high number of pages, and when the contents are particularly heavy in graphic elements, such as images. As an example, if the current job is made up of 250 pages and the setting here is 100 (default), the job will be sent to the printer in 3 different phases: 100 pages, 100 pages, and 50 pages. All pages will still be printed. They are simply grouped in a way that will be interpreted by Windows as 3 separate print jobs.

Note:
In case the print job is actually split into more than one group because it exceeds the option set here, print cancel will only affect the group currently being printed.

CROP MARKS
Crop marks can be optionally printed on each page in case it is necessary to cut the printed sheets. The combo box Crop marks enables you to set the way crop marks are printed:

• Hidden: crop marks are hidden and do not get printed.
• Fixed length: crop marks are printed, and their length is fixed at 1 inch (2.54 cm).
• Margin length: crop marks are printed, and their size is dependent on the outer margins defined in layout from.
• Page size: crop marks are printed using the whole page width and height.

Note:
To ensure that the option Margin length produces a visible effect during printing, it is necessary that the outer margins, set in the layout dialog box, are large enough to exceed the printer margins. Otherwise some crop marks may not be printed.

You can define a color that will be used to print crop marks by clicking the Crop marks color box.