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Page Setup Tab Description

The Page Setup tab allows you to set borderless printing for a document and specify the scaling.

figure:Page Setup Tab
Settings Preview
The paper illustration shows how the original will be laid out on a sheet of paper.
You can check an overall image of the layout.
The printer illustration shows how to load paper to match the printer driver settings.
Check whether the printer is set up correctly by looking at the illustration before you start printing.
Page Size
Selects a page size.
Ensure that you select the same page size as you selected within the application.
When you select Custom Size from Custom Paper Size, the Custom Size Settings dialog box appears, and you can specify any vertical and horizontal dimensions for the paper.
Borderless Printing
Chooses whether you are printing on a full page without any page margins or printing with page margins.
In borderless printing, originals are enlarged to extend slightly off the paper. Thus, printing can be performed without any margins (border).

Important

  • When Cut Sheet is selected for Paper Source, Borderless Printing is grayed out and cannot be set.
Borderless Setting
Select Borderless Printing to enable it for clicking.
Open the Borderless Setting dialog box, so that you can adjust Amount of Extension.
Borderless Printing Method
This appears when you select Borderless Printing.
Set the borderless printing method.
Fit Paper Size
Enlarge or reduce the document to match the size of the paper to be printed, and then print the document.
Scale to fit Roll Paper Width
You can enlarge or reduce the document to match the roll paper width and then print the document.
Print Image with Actual Size
Prints the document at its actual size.
When you select this check box, the Information dialog box appears, and you can select Roll Width.
Printer Paper Size
When you select the Fit Paper Size check box, you can specify the setting.
Select the size of the paper to be printed.
The list displays the paper sizes that support borderless printing.
Enlarged/Reduced Printing
You can enlarge or reduce a document and then print it.
When you select Enlarged/Reduced Printing, you can then set Fit Paper Size, Fit Roll Paper Width, or Scaling.
Fit Paper Size
Enlarge/reduce the document to match the size of the paper to be printed, and then print the document.
Fit Roll Paper Width
You can enlarge/reduce the document to match the roll paper width and then print the document.
Scaling
Enlarge or reduce the document to a specified scale before printing.
Printer Paper Size
When you select the Fit Paper Size check box, or Scaling check box, you can specify the setting.
Select the size of the paper to be printed.
Orientation
Selects the printing orientation.
If the application used to create your document has a similar function, select the same orientation that you selected in that application.
Portrait
Prints the document so that its top and bottom positions are unchanged relative to the paper feed direction. This is the default setting.
Landscape
Prints the document by rotating it 90 degrees relative to the paper feed direction.
Rotate Page 90 degrees
Rotate the long edge of the document 90 degrees, match it to the width of the roll paper, and then print the document.
When you print a portrait document onto roll paper, you can save paper by rotating the document 90 degrees and print the document horizontally relative to the paper.
Paper Source
Shows the source from which paper is supplied.
You may be able to switch the paper source with the printer driver.
Roll Paper
Feeds paper using roll paper.
Cut Sheet
Feeds paper using the cut paper.

Important

  • Depending on the media type and size, the Paper Source settings that can be selected may differ.
Roll Width
Select the roll paper width.
Select the width that matches the width of the roll paper loaded in the printer. If you select Custom Size (XXXX), the Custom Size Settings dialog box will be displayed, and the roll width can be specified to any value.
Roll Paper Options
Displays the Roll Paper Options dialog box.
You can specify auto cut, banner printing, and other settings for printing on roll paper.
Size Options...
Displays the Paper Size Options dialog box.
The Paper Size Options dialog box allows you to create and register any user-defined paper.

Custom Size Settings dialog box (Paper Size)

This dialog box allows you to specify the size (width and height) of the custom paper.

Paper Size
Specifies the Width and the Height of the custom paper. Measurement is shown according to the units specified in Units.
Units
Select the unit for entering a user-defined paper size.

Borderless Setting dialog box

Adjust how much of the document extends off the paper during borderless printing, and configure the three-sided borderless setting.

Amount of Extension
Adjusts how much of the document extends off the paper during borderless printing.
Moving the slider to the right increases the amount of extension and allows you to perform borderless printing with no problems.
Moving the slider to the left reduces the amount of extension and expands the range of the document to print.
Three-sided Borderless
If you check this check box, and the width or the length of the output paper size is smaller than the roll width, a margin will be created on the right of the document, and the remaining three sides (top, bottom, and left) will be borderless when printing.

Custom Size Settings dialog box (Roll Paper Width)

Enter the roll width you want to use.

Roll Paper Width
Specify the Width of the roll paper. Measurement is shown according to the units specified in Units.
Units
Select the unit for entering a user-defined paper size.

Roll Paper Options dialog box

You can specify settings for printing on roll paper.

Automatic Cutting
You can print cut guidelines for cutting the roll paper automatically or manually after printing.
Yes
Cut the roll paper automatically after printing.
No
Do not cut the roll paper automatically after printing.
Print Cut Guideline
Prints cut guidelines for cutting the roll paper manual after printing.
Banner Printing
Select this check box to print documents extending over several pages as one continuous document without any spaces between the pages.

Paper Size Options dialog box

You can create and register any user-defined paper. You can then select the defined paper size from Custom Paper Size of Page Size.

Paper Size List
The names and sizes of the paper sizes that the printer driver can use are displayed.
Delete
From Paper Size List, you can delete a user-defined paper that a user created.

Note

  • Paper deletion is not possible in the following case:
    • When a standard paper size of the printer driver is selected
    • When an oversized paper size is selected
    • When a paper size with a red circle is selected
Custom Paper Size Name
You can specify the name of a user-defined paper.
Units
You can specify the units for the height and width dimensions of the user-defined paper.
Page Size
You can specify the Width and Height settings of the paper.
Borderless Printing Size
When you select this check box, you can select a size from the paper sizes that support Borderless Printing.
Fix the Ratio of the Width to Height
When you select this check box, you can change the size while keeping the Width and Height ratio.
Width
Specify the paper width.
Height
Specify the paper height.
Register with the OS
Register the set user-defined paper in the OS.
By registering in the OS, any user sharing the use of the printer or PC can use the set user -defined paper.
Add
You can register a user-defined paper that was set and overwrite the existing user-defined paper.
Display Series
You can narrow down the paper sizes to be displayed in Paper Size List.
Oversize
Add appropriate margins so that the document contents will not get cut off, and then print the document.