This tab allows configuring printer settings and paper options.

Key settings

Default printer

• Default printer – select your printer here

Print Order

• Accordion – Print single pages first – When printing a file as an accordion, if the number of pages is odd, checking this setting will print the first page as a single and the rest as two ups instead of the last page being a single. (From 1.0.31.0 onwards)
• Print files in reverse order – when enabled, prints the selected files in the printing view starting from the bottom of the list instead of the top.
• Print copies in reverse order – when enabled, prints the last copy of each file first (this is most noticeable when you are printing desk numbers!)

Metadata

• Prefer print settings from PDF file metadata where available – when disabled, OLTK tries to apply the default settings for the orchestra section when a file is dragged into the print view. When this setting is enabled, if the file has previously been printed and has the metadata from that print job saved to it, the settings from the previous print job will be applied instead
• Save print settings to PDF file metadata when the print button is pressed – when enabled, saves current print settings for the file to the file’s metadata

Print Configurations

OLTK’s printing feature is designed to allow instant recall of preset print configurations. Each print configuration is effectively a preset that allows your printer to print a particular paper size in a particular format e.g. single-sided, booklet, two-up. You should add a print configuration for each paper size format you intend to use e.g. B4 double-sided, SRA3 booklet etc.

Paper sizes

• Each paper size is represented by a collapse panel. To view the format configurations for a paper size, open the collapse panel using the chevron at the right of the screen.
• To add a new paper size, press the + Add paper button at the top of the Print configurations card.
• To add a format configuration to a paper size, press the + button in the collapse panel header next to the chevron at the right-hand side of the screen.

Print configuration

For each print configuration, a card with the settings for that configuration is shown with the following settings:

• Printer – choose the printer this configuration should be printed to
• Scaling – choose from Fit to page, Actual size, Shrink oversized pages
• Advanced – open the advanced options menu
• Cogwheel – open the printer’s driver settings panel to configure your print driver settings (NB – this is required to be able to print with this configuration. The icon will show red when this needs to be done.)
• Printer with eye – print a test print with this configuration.
• Dustbin – remove this print configuration

Advanced

• Page layout handling (applies to 2up and booklet printing):
  • Printer handles layout (default) – when using this setting, make sure the printer driver is set to handle multiple pages per sheet and/or booklet.
  • OLTK handles layout – when using this setting, make sure the printer is set for double-sided short edge (when printing booklets) or single-sided (when printing 2up). OLTK will lay out the pages on the paper for you.
• Printable area source:
  • Use printer reported printable area (default) – Use this setting in most cases.
  • Use application estimated printable area – Use this setting only when instructed to by OLTK support.
• Printable area compensation (applies to 2up and booklet printing when using Page layout handling set to ‘Printer handles layout’):
  • None (default) – No compensation.
  • Compensate – Some printers add extra whitespace around the rendered pages when printing 2up or booklet, which has the effect of making the actual printed page size smaller than it ideally would be. This setting attempts to compensate for this. NB – this setting can result in small amounts of each page being cut off, so do not use this if your PDFs have very tight margins.
• Compensate for 2up & Booklet shrinking (applies to 2up and booklet printing when using Page layout handling set to ‘Printer handles layout’) – When enabled, doubles the size of the actual printed image. This can be used to compensate for printers that shrink the image when printing 2up or booklet.