Prepare the right sheet and printing route
Choose the exact stock and resolution, verify the file and understand the printing-computer hand-off.
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Choose the exact stock and resolution, verify the file and understand the printing-computer hand-off.
Read these instructions on any device. Watch or practise a chapter on a desktop or laptop, with a desktop or mobile application layout. Demonstrations use sample data and simulated scanners.
Prepare the right sheet and printing route
- Start a print check
Start a print check.
Start a check from the start screen. Three steps follow: prepare the test, print one copy at actual size, then measure, scan and report. Your checks stay in this tab.
- Choose four-by-six-inch stock
Choose four-by-six-inch stock.
Four by six inches is not the same as 100 by 150 millimetres. Match the stock actually loaded.
- Choose the 300-DPI printer
Choose the 300-DPI printer.
This prepared office example uses 300 DPI. The document and the physical printer settings must agree.
- Prepare the known test sheet
Prepare the known test sheet.
The original PDF is checked and its preview is rendered from the same bytes. Downloading a sheet does not mean a label has printed.
- Review the PrintStation hand-off
Review the PrintStation hand-off.
The link selects a known test sheet in PrintStation. Attended printing happens on the printer computer with its connector app. No printer or external tab is opened by this lesson.
- Download the verified test PDF
Download the verified test PDF.
The downloaded PDF is the original verified file. Print one copy at actual size on the printing computer, then inspect the paper.
Use real paper measurements and keep useful evidence. This training does not qualify physical equipment.