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Starting Position Dialog

The Starting Position dialog is a print-time dialog that is displayed at the beginning of a print job when you select the Select starting position at print-time option on the Page Setup dialog's Printing Order tab. By using the Starting Position dialog, you can select the specific item (or label) on the page of stock where you want the printer to begin printing your items. This dialog is available only for printer stock that is designed to print multiple items per page, such as laser or ink-jet printer labels.

The dialog shows a preview of the page of printer stock that you are using. Use the Printing Order tab on the Page Setup dialog to configure the starting position options. These options determine how the printed items are displayed on the preview page and specify the dialog fields that are available to use to indicate where you want printing to start.

ClosedTo continue a print job from the Starting Position dialog

Print items that appear with gray shading represent items on the page of stock that are already printed. These items may appears gray by default when you previously selected Continue from last position of previous job on the Page Setup dialog's Printing Order tab.

When you select a starting position item by using the Starting Position dialog, the preceding items on the page (based on the printing order) also appear gray and are not used for the print job.

  1. In the Starting Position dialog's preview of the page of stock, click to select the item that you want to be printed as the first item of the print job. Alternatively, you can specify the starting position item by using one of the following methods:

    • In the Starting Position field, enter the number for the item that you want. Available when Specify by row and column is not selected on the Page Setup dialog's Printing Order tab.

    • In the Starting Row field, enter the starting row number that you want, and then enter the starting column number that you want in the Starting Column field. Available when Specify by row and column is selected on the Page Setup dialog's Printing Order tab.

  2. Click Print or press Enter to proceed with the print request.