Reports can be printed at any time and as often as you wish.  To provide an audit trail, you should print and save the Accounts Receivable Ledger each accounting month.

Print - Opens a printer setup and selection window, then allows you to cancel, or send the selected items to a printer.  See the Printer Selection topic for more details.

Preview / Save (PDF) - Creates a PDF file of the selected item.  Opens the file using the PDF software you have selected in Windows, as your default PDF file software.

Send by E-Mail (PDF) - Creates a PDF file of the selected item, then allows you to send the item via email.

View / Save (CSV) - Creates a Comma-Separated Value (CSV) formatted file. Opens the file using the software you have selected in Windows, as your default CSV file reader.

Background Image

This button allows you to select an image to print as the background (watermark) for most reports.  You can also set the shading effect, which controls whether the image prints as 100% dark, down to 1% of the image's color.  See below for more details.

The image file must be a valid bitmap file.  After creating and selecting the desired image, the only adjustment needed to to adjust the image darkness percentage until you get the desired results.

The tricky part of creating a bitmap to print is converting the "pixels" (how bitmaps are sized), to actual inches on the report.  To obtain the best results, create your image using the same resolution (dots per inch) as your printer. 

If your printer is set for 600 dots per inch, size your the image:

Portrait:  4500 pixels wide, 6000 pixels high

Landscape:  6000 pixels wide, 4500 inches high

If you print both in landscape and portrait, use a square image, 4500 pixels per side.

If your printer is set for something other than 600 dots per inch, size your image:

DPI = your printer's resolution (dots per inch)

Portrait:  (7.5 x DPI) pixels wide, (10 x DPI) pixels high

Landscape:  (10 x DPI) pixels wide, (7.5 x DPI) inches high

If you print both in landscape and portrait, use a square image, (10 x DPI) pixels per side.

If you would like to adjust how much space on the page the image uses, you can do so by editing your image file.  For instance, you could create an all white image then add text to the bottom to create the effect of a custom footer with your company information.  You could add a graphic anywhere in the image, to cause the image to print in the desired location on the page.

If the image you select is smaller than the dimensions above, you may see the image in a different size when using the print preview than on a printed page. This is because we do not increase the image size when it is smaller than the suggested size.  If you use an image larger than your printer can fit on a page, the software will scale the image smaller so it will fit on the page.