Setting Print dialog box controls

To print a Print layout:

  1. Choose File > Print (Command+P/Ctrl+P). The Print dialog box displays.
  2. To select a printer driver, choose an option from the Printer drop-down menu.
    • Windows only: Clicking the Properties button opens a dialog box with controls specific to the selected printer driver. For more information about the options in this dialog box or how to install printers, consult the documentation provided with Microsoft Windows software.
  3. Specify output options in one of the following ways:
    • To use an existing print output style, choose an option from the Print Style drop-down menu.
    • To manually configure print options, use the controls in the bottom half of the dialog box. This part of the Print dialog box is divided into panes. To display a pane, click its name in the list on the bottom left. For information, see “Print dialog box.”
    • To capture the selected print options as a new output style, choose New Print Output Style from the Print Style drop-down menu.
  4. To specify the number of copies you want to print, enter a value in the Copies field.
  5. To specify which pages you want to print, enter a value in the Pages field. You can enter ranges of pages, nonsequential pages, or a combination of ranges and nonsequential pages for printing. Use commas and hyphens to define a sequential or nonsequential range of pages. For example, if you have a 20-page layout and you want to print pages 3 through 9, pages 12 through 15, and page 19, then enter 3–9, 12–15, 19 in the Pages field.
  6. To specify whether only odd, only even, or all pages should be printed, choose an option from the Page Sequence drop-down menu. All (the default setting) prints all of the related pages. When you choose Odd, only odd-numbered pages print. When you choose Even, only even-numbered pages print.
  7. To make your document print smaller or larger, enter a percentage in the Scale field. The default is 100%.
  8. If you are printing two or more copies of the layout, and you want each copy to emerge from the printer in sequential order, check Collate. If Collate is unchecked, the application prints multiple copies of each page at a time.
  9. To print spreads (horizontally adjoining pages) side by side on the film or paper, check Spreads.
  10. To print a multipage layout in reverse order, check Back to Front. The last page in the layout will print first.
  11. Check Fit in Print Area to reduce or enlarge the size of a page in your document to fit the imageable area of the selected media.
  12. Mac OS only: Click the Printer button to open the Printer Driver dialog box. Consult the documentation supplied with your computer for more information.
  13. Click Print to print the layout.
  14. Click Cancel to close the Print dialog box without saving settings or printing the layout.
    Note: The area at the upper right of the Print dialog box is the page preview area. You can use this image to preview how the pages will appear on the output device.
Parent topic: Printing layouts

Setting Print dialog box controls