# Prepare the right sheet and printing route

Choose the exact stock and resolution, verify the file and understand the printing-computer hand-off.

Source: https://help.smartfact.ai/printbench/guides/prepare-and-route

Audience: Supervisor

Choose the exact stock and resolution, verify the file and understand the printing-computer hand-off.

## Prepare the right sheet and printing route

1. **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.

2. **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.

3. **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.

4. **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.

5. **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.

6. **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.

[Watch or practise this chapter](https://help.smartfact.ai/printbench/demo?guide=prepare-and-route&chapter=prepare-and-route&audience=office)

Use real paper measurements and keep useful evidence. This training does not qualify physical equipment.