Print Step

The Print Step tool allows the user to choose a printer and to print data. The data that the Print Step will print needs to come from a slide or from any renderable object. A renderable object is an object that contains the data being used within the tool, in other words the tool knows how to write its information itself. A non-renderable object is one that is pulling its information from a different source.

An example of a renderable object is the Slide tool. That is the tool we will be using as an example. A non-renderable object would be the SQLL Write tool which is a data base write tool, this is not renderable because it pulls its data from a saved location, the data is not stored within that tool.

Using the Print Step

Drag and drop the Print Step tool from the palette into the sequence.
Right-click on the tool.

-Go into the tool's inputs page.
-Drag and drop the tool with the renderable object from he sequence into the renderable objects box
(in this example we inputted a slide).
-If you only wish to print a portion of the slide use the drop down menu located on the right side of the inputs page to select the portion to be printed. If the user wants to print the entire object leave the dropdown menu blank.

Use the Printer Selection page to select the printer to be used for the print job.

Use the dropdown menu to choose you printer.

Select the Properties button to go into the properties page for your printer to make selections for how the printing should proceed.

what printed

Example:
These are the images on the slide from which I am printing information from.

I have chosen "print" from the dropdown menu because that was the name that I gave to the "I will print this when I am done" section of the slide. This was one of the Slide Entities.
Now when I run the Print Tool, the "I will print this when I am done." will print and nothing else.
If I had chosen to leave the dropdown menu blank it would have printed everything contained within the slide.