Printing a Document

When a document is printed, many different instructions are sent to the printing machine. You need to set all those instructions correctly.

Tip

Adobe recommends using only the controls inside the InDesign Print dialog box not the Page Setup (Mac) dialog box or the Printer Properties (Win) dialog box.

To print a document:

1.	Choose File > Print. This opens the Print dialog box . The Print dialog box contains all the settings for printing documents.
2.	Click each of the categories on the left side of the dialog box to set the options as described in the chart on the following page. Click each of the categories to display those settings in the Print dialog box. Tip You do not need to set all the controls every time you print unless you need to change a specific setting.
3.	Click the Print button to print the document according to the settings.

Before you print a document, you may want to set some objects (such as private notes or alternate designs) to not print.

To set elements to not print:

• Select the object and turn on Nonprinting in the Attributes palette (see page 145).
  
  or
  
  Turn off the visibility of the layer in the document (see page 293). This supresses the printing for all objects on the layer.