<p class="Paragraph">In this area you can reduce the amount of data to be sent to the printer. Reducing the print data increases the print speed, page printers with a smaller memory can also print and the print files are smaller. The down side is reduced print quality.</p>
<p class="Paragraph"><help:help-text value="visible" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help">Select here if the following settings in this area should apply for direct printing on the printer or for printing to file.</help:help-text></p>
<p class="Paragraph"><help:help-text value="visible" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help">If you mark this field the transparent objects will be printed like normal non-transparent objects, depending on your selection in the following two option buttons.</help:help-text></p>
<p class="Paragraph">Transparency cannot at present be output directly to a printer. The areas of the document in which transparency is to be visible must therefore always be calculated as bitmaps and sent to the printer. Depending on the size of the bitmaps and the print resolution a large amount of data may thus result.</p>
<p class="Paragraph"><help:help-text value="visible" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help">With this option the transparency is only printed if the transparent area covers more than a quarter of the entire page.</help:help-text></p>
<p class="Paragraph"><help:help-text value="visible" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help">With this option transparency is never printed.</help:help-text></p>
<p class="Paragraph"><help:help-text value="visible" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help">If you mark this field, bitmaps are printed with reduced quality. The resolution can only be reduced and not increased.</help:help-text></p>
<p class="Paragraph"><help:help-text value="visible" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help">High print quality corresponds to a resolution of 300dpi. Normal print quality corresponds to a resolution of 200dpi. </help:help-text></p>
<p class="Paragraph"><help:help-text value="visible" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help">With this option you can specify yourself the maximum print quality in dpi. The resolution can only be reduced and not increased.</help:help-text></p>
<p class="Paragraph"><help:help-text value="visible" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help">If this field is marked, the reduction in print quality for bitmaps also applies to the transparent areas of objects.</help:help-text></p>
<p class="Paragraph"><help:help-text value="visible" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help">If this field is marked, gradients are printed with reduced quality.</help:help-text></p>
<p class="Paragraph"><help:help-text value="visible" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help">Select here the maximum number of gradient stripes for printing.</help:help-text></p>
<p class="Paragraph"><help:help-text value="visible" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help">With this option gradients are only printed in a single intermediate color.</help:help-text></p>
<p class="Head3"><help:help-id value="SFX2_CHECKBOX_TP_COMMONPRINTOPTIONS_CB_CONVERTTOGREYSCALES" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help"/><help:key-word value="printing; colors in grayscale" tag="kw66251_6" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help"/><help:key-word value="grayscale; printing" tag="kw66251_5" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help"/><help:key-word value="colors; printing in grayscale" tag="kw66251_4" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help"/>converting colors to grayscale</p>
<p class="Paragraph"><help:help-text value="visible" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help">If this field is marked, all colors are printed only as grayscale.</help:help-text></p>
<p class="Paragraph"><help:help-text value="visible" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help">This is where you set which warnings appear before printing begins.</help:help-text></p>
<p class="Paragraph"><help:help-text value="visible" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help">Select this check box if a certain paper size is needed for printing the current document.</help:help-text> If the paper size used in the document is not provided by the current printer, you will receive an error message.</p>
<p class="Paragraph"><help:help-text value="visible" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help">Mark this check box if you need a certain paper orientation for printing the current document.</help:help-text> If the format used by the current document is not available from the printer, an error message will appear.</p>
<p class="Paragraph"><help:help-text value="visible" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help">Select this check box if you always want to be warned if transparent objects are contained in the document.</help:help-text> If you print such a document, a dialog appears in which you can select if the transparency is to be printed or not in this print instruction.</p>
