Setting up a printer – Adobe InDesign User Manual
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Text view
Custom page/Cut sheet views
Four different page-fit settings in Standard view
A. Default B. Spreads C. Orientation D. 2-by-2 Thumbnails
Lists the numerical values for certain print settings.
Displays the effects of different print settings, depending on your page size. For custom page sizes, the preview
shows how the media fits on the custom output device; the maximum supported media dimensions of the output device; and the settings for offset,
gap, and transverse. For cut sheets, such as Letter and Tabloid, the preview shows the relationship of the imageable area to the media size.
In both the custom page and cut sheet views, the preview also indicates the output mode using an icon: Separations
, Composite Grayscale ,
Composite CMYK , or Composite RGB .
Custom page view (left) and cut sheet view (right)
A. Direction of media travel B. Transverse deselected C. Paper size D. Media E. Imageable area F. Media
Setting up a printer
InDesign supports printing to both PostScript® (Level 2 and 3) and non-PostScript language printers, using most current printer drivers. When you
print to a PostScript printer, InDesign uses information from a PostScript Printer Description (PPD) file to determine which settings to display in the
Print dialog box.
Follow these basic steps when setting up a printer:
Install the latest printer driver for your output device. See your operating system documentation for instructions.
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