Create A Custom Paper Size For Printing In Mac

CREATE A CUSTOM PAPER SIZE FOR PRINTING IN MAC OS X APPLICATIONS

Click on OK to close the dialog box. Load the custom-size paper into the paper input tray. Open the item you want to print. Click File, and then click Print. In the Print window, click Preferences, Properties, or Printer Properties. Click the Paper/Quality tab, and then click Custom.

Selecting Print options and printing your modelThe Page Setup dialog box may look familiar: ItвЂ™s a standard dialog box that appears in all OS X applications. Select 'Manage Custom Sizes ' from the 'Paper Size' pop-up menu Click the Apple menu.Note: When setting a Custom Paper Size, borderless printing will not be available. Either choose your printer's default margins from the pop-up menu, or enter your own values for margins in the 'Left', 'Right', 'Top', and 'Bottom' fields. If you want to change the custom size's name, double-click the name in the list and enter a new name.

If youвЂ™re creating settings for a specific printer thatвЂ™s already installed on OS X, you can select that printer by name from the drop-down list. From the Format For drop-down list, you can leave Any Printer selected if you want the settings to apply to any printer. The Page Setup dialog box appears, showing the Page Attributes settings, as shown in the following figure. Select File > Page Setup. To set up your Page Setup options, follow these steps:

Check your printer documentation to find out what paper sizes your printer can handle. If you define a custom paper size, keep in mind that SketchUp doesnвЂ™t know whether your printer is capable of printing on the paper size that you define. When youвЂ™re done, click OK to return to the Page Setup dialog box. Then you can enter your desired paper size and specify custom margins (or Non-Printable Area in the dialog boxвЂ™s parlance). Click the plus sign in the lower left to create a new custom size. From the Paper Size drop-down list, select your desired paper size.Tip: If you need to specify a custom size, select Manage Custom Sizes.

Create A Custom Paper Size For Printing In Mac OS X Applications

The Print dialog box appears, as shown in the following figure. This dialog box is the standard Print dialog box for all Mac OS X applications.Follow these steps to set your options in the Print dialog box: This is where you choose what printer to use, how many copies you want, and whether you want to print a draft or high-quality printout. In the Scale box, type a percentage to reduce or enlarge your model on the printout.Tip: If you set a print size or scale that makes your model larger than the selected paper size, you can see how many pages are needed to print your model in the Pages Required area of the Document Setup dialog box.Selecting Print options and printing your modelAfter you set up your page and document, youвЂ™re ready to set options in the Print dialog box.

If you just need a quick, low-quality copy to show a colleague or take to a status meeting, select Draft. Select a Print Quality that reflects how you intend to use your printout. However, you can select to print a specific page range here.

When youвЂ™ve selected all the options you want, click Print to send your printout to the selected printer. You can also type a value in the text box. (Optional) To make the lines thinner or thicker than the default of 0.5 points, select a new line thickness from the Line Weight drop-down list. (Optional) To send your model information to the printer as vector data, select the Vector Printing checkbox. The default is Standard, which uses more ink than Draft but prints faster than the higher-quality options.