About printing

You can print individual pages on a proofing printer - that is, any printer set up under the Windows mechanism. You may also use EscapeE to use PCL, PDF, PS and XPS printers directly, bypassing the printer's own print-driver (print-drivers are often the root of printing difficulties).

You may choose to print pages according to their instructions or as an image. When printing a page as an image it will always look the same as EscapeE shows it on the screen, whereas proofing uses the printer's own "resources" (e.g. fonts), so you can see if these are set up correctly.

Printing may be scaled to accommodate printer differences such as unprintable areas.

If your files do not fully specify the print environment e.g. orientation, paper type etc., you might need to set up the printer information manually in order to display and print the file. This will only apply to users who have changed the factory defaults on their printer and are not using standard Windows software to create PCL files.