Spread Windows Forms 18 Product Documentation

Customizing the Print Job Settings

Sheets are printed on the current default printer in your Windows environment unless you specify otherwise. You can print sheets on any Windows-supported printer.

The print job settings that you can customize include printer, source, page size and collated settings. Set the Printer, PaperSource, or PaperSize on the PrintInfo object and Collated settings on the PageSetup object.

Using Code

Set various print job settings.
Print the sheet.

Example

This example code sets the paper source based on a selection from a combo box and sets the paper size before printing all the sheets.

private void Form1_Load(object sender, System.EventArgs e)
{
    int i;
    System.Drawing.Printing.PrinterSettings ps = new System.Drawing.Printing.PrinterSettings();
    
    for (i = 0; i <= ps.PaperSources.Count - 1; i++)
    {
        comboBox1.Items.Add(ps.PaperSources[i].SourceName);
    }
    comboBox1.Text = ps.PaperSources[0].SourceName;
}

private void button1_Click(object sender, System.EventArgs e
{
    FarPoint.Win.Spread.PrintInfo pi = new FarPoint.Win.Spread.PrintInfo();
    System.Drawing.Printing.PrinterSettings ps = new System.Drawing.Printing.PrinterSettings();
    pi.PaperSize = new System.Drawing.Printing.PaperSize("Letter", 600, 300);
    pi.PaperSource = ps.PaperSources[comboBox1.SelectedIndex];
    fpSpread1.Sheets[0].PrintInfo = pi;
    fpSpread1.PrintSheet(-1);
}

Private Sub Form1_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load
    Dim ps As New System.Drawing.Printing.PrinterSettings()
    Dim i As Integer
    For i = 0 To ps.PaperSources.Count - 1
        ComboBox1.Items.Add(ps.PaperSources.Item(i).SourceName)
    Next
    ComboBox1.Text = ps.PaperSources.Item(0).SourceName
End Sub

Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
    Dim pi As New FarPoint.Win.Spread.PrintInfo()
    Dim ps As New System.Drawing.Printing.PrinterSettings()
    pi.PaperSize = New System.Drawing.Printing.PaperSize("Letter", 600, 300)
    pi.PaperSource = ps.PaperSources(ComboBox1.SelectedIndex)
    FpSpread1.Sheets(0).PrintInfo = pi
    FpSpread1.PrintSheet(-1)
End Sub

Set the Collated Printing

In printing, the term Collated refers to printing the first copy in the same order from start to finish, followed by printing the next copy in the same order, whereas Uncollated refers to printing multiple copies of the first page of a document, then multiple copies of the second page, and so on.

In Spread.NET, the Collated property when set as true uses IPageSetup object to implement the collated printing of the spreadsheet.

The following image shows the Collated option in the Print settings that appears on your screen.

Example

Collated printing can be useful for creating employee training materials whereas Uncollated option can be useful for creating separate piles of each page from the document.

Refer to the following code to implement an uncollected printing of the Spreadsheet.

IWorksheet TestActiveSheet = fpSpread1.AsWorkbook().ActiveSheet;
for (int i = 1; i < 50; i++)
{
  for (int j = 3; j < 10; j++)
  {
   TestActiveSheet.Cells[i, j].Value = i + j;
  }
}
GrapeCity.Spreadsheet.Printing.IPageSetup pageSetup = fpSpread1.AsWorkbook().ActiveSheet.PageSetup;
pageSetup.Collated = false;
pageSetup.NumberOfCopies = 3;
fpSpread1.Sheets[0].PrintInfo.Preview = true;
fpSpread1.Sheets[0].PrintInfo.EnhancePreview = true;
fpSpread1.PrintSheet(0);

Dim TestActiveSheet As IWorksheet = fpSpread1.AsWorkbook().ActiveSheet
For i = 1 To 49
  For j = 3 To 9
     TestActiveSheet.Cells(i, j).Value = i + j
  Next
Next
Dim pageSetup As GrapeCity.Spreadsheet.Printing.IPageSetup = fpSpread1.AsWorkbook().ActiveSheet.PageSetup
pageSetup.Collated = False
pageSetup.NumberOfCopies = 3
FpSpread1.Sheets(0).PrintInfo.Preview = True
FpSpread1.Sheets(0).PrintInfo.EnhancePreview = True
FpSpread1.PrintSheet(0)

!type=note
Note: The Collated/Uncollated option cannot be used for printing PDFs, as NumberOfCopies property is not applicable for PDF.

Customizing the Print Job Settings

Set the Collated Printing

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