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Creating a Printer Style

To create a print style in QuarkXPress, you must select Print Styles from the Edit menu. InDesign is a little more flexible: It lets you create printer styles in two waysusing the Printer Styles command (like in XPress) or from within the Print dialog box. In both programs, the printer styles you create are available application-wide, not just to the current document or to open documents.

In the Print Dialog Box

We find it easiest to create printer styles in the Print dialog box. Open the Print dialog for a typical job in your workflow. Make all the choices necessary in each of the panels, and then click the Save Style button at the bottom of the dialog box. You'll see the Save Style dialog box. To create a new style, type a style name and click OK. To redefine an existing style, choose an existing style name in the popup list and click OK. The style name will now appear in the Printer Style popup menu at the top of the dialog box. That's all there is to it! You can even press Cancel to leave the Print dialog box without actually printing.

Using the Printer Styles Command

If you have a lot of different devices that you print to, you may prefer to choose Define from the Printer Styles submenu (under the File menu). This displays the Define Printer Styles dialog box (see Figure 96-1), which list the Default style (the settings that appear by default in the Print dialog box) as well as any other printer styles you've created.

To create a new printer style, click the New button. The Print dialog box appears (see Figure 96-2). It's almost the same as the normal Print dialog box, but there is no preview. Type a name for the style at the top of the dialog box. Then make all the choices in any of the panels. When you're finished, click OK to save changes to the printer style.

To edit an existing style, click the Edit button in the Define Printer Styles dialog box. Obviously, you can delete a style by clicking the Delete button. Less obvious is the ability to load and save your styles, which is useful when you want to share your settings among different workstations. To save styles, select the styles you want to include by Shift-clicking or Command/Ctrl-clicking, then click the Save button. Later, you can click the Load button to load the styles.

By the way, there are a couple of items in the Print dialog box which cannot be saved in a style and which must be set individually for a specific job. For instance, specific inks and ink aliasing cannot be saved in a style.