Just as you can suppress the printout of items such as picture boxes using the Modify dialog box, you can suppress the printout of layers. To suppress the printout of a layer, double-click that layer in the Layers palette. In the Attributes dialog box, check Suppress Output, and then click OK.

When Suppress Output is checked for a layer, that layer displays unchecked by default in the Layers pane of the Print dialog box, and consequently that layer will not print (unless you check the layer manually in the Print dialog box).

The Print dialog box provides settings for controlling which layers will print.