Printing BarTender Documents

Before a document can be printed, Print Station must retrieve information about the selected document. While the information is being retrieved, the Reading Document page is displayed. This page has two components: a preview image of the selected document and a progress bar that will continue until reading of the document completes. When you move your cursor over the preview image, a tooltip appears showing the file name and comments about the selected document. The Reading Document page will not appear if the option On mouse click: Immediately print is enabled in the Administrative Setup dialog.

The Print page provides the user with options to select the printer, set the number of copies, and to begin printing. The Print page will not display if the option On mouse click Immediately print is enabled in the Administrative Setup dialog.

• Print: Starts the print job. BarTender will open the selected document, print, prompt for input if required, and return the print job message status. While printing is in progress, the Printing page is shown.

• Print Preview. Opens a full-screen preview of the document as it will appear on the page.

Printer

• Name: Displays a dropdown list of available printers, and allows you to select a printer for printing the item. If the document has the "Use Default Printer" option enabled, then the local computer's default printer is selected. The Printer Name control will be unavailable if Disable printer selection is enabled on the Security property page of the Administrative Setup dialog.

• Port: Displays the selected printer's port.

Quantity

• Copies: Specifies the number of identical copies to be printed. The initial value comes from the value specified in the selected document. If serialization is enabled for any of the data sources in the document, this option will be represented as Copies per Serial Number.

• Serial Numbers: Specifies the number of serialized items to be printed. The initial value comes from the value specifies in the selected document. This option is only available if serialization is enabled on any data source on the document.

  If you specify the number of serialized items to print, Print Station will automatically save the document after printing the item. The next time you print, the serialized field will be set to the next number in sequence.

The Printing Document page is displayed while the print job is executing. The progress bar is displayed until printing completes. Once completed, the Print Results dialog is displayed.