Printing a Document

Laserfiche Snapshot can process any Windows application file that can be printed. During the printing process, Snapshot may prompt you to verify the settings assigned to the Laserfiche document that will be created. After verifying these settings, a document containing the images and/or text files generated from the Windows file will be created in the specified Laserfiche folder.

Note: If you plan on using Snapshot frequently, consider making it your default printer. If another printer was not present when Snapshot was installed, it is already set as your default printer. Learn about printer properties.

Note: Snapshot will not generate text for files that do not already contain text, such as a photograph of a page in a document. For more information on configuring these settings, see the Configuring Default Printer Settings and Configuring Default Document Settings topics in the Administration Console help files.

To print documents using Laserfiche Snapshot

1. Open the desired file in a Windows application with the ability to print.
2. From the File drop-down menu, select Print.
3. Make sure to select the Laserfiche Snapshot printer name.
4. To configure printer settings (e.g., paper size, resolution, orientation, color depth, file format, etc.), click Preferences or Properties or Printer Properties, make the desired changes, and click OK.
5. Click OK or Print to send the document to Snapshot.
6. If Snapshot is configured to prompt you for document properties, the Laserfiche Snapshot dialog box will appear, allowing you to configure where to store the Snapshot images and what Laserfiche metadata you want to assign to the document. Use the General tab to configure where to store the Snapshot images.
   • If you want to send the document to your Laserfiche repository, use the Folder option to specify where to save the document in your repository.
   • If you want to store the generated images on your computer, select the Export to directory checkbox and specify a folder on your computer. Snapshot will generate a TIFF of your document, an XML import list file, and if applicable, text and location information. You can use a custom Laserfiche SDK script to read the XML import list file and import the images, metadata, and text information in to a Laserfiche repository.

   At the bottom of the dialog box, click Preview to get a sneak peek at the generated image for each page. Click OK to complete the print process.

• The storage location cannot be blank. You must specify where you want the files stored before importing.
• If the assigned template contains a required field, that field must be filled in to save the document to the repository.
• Network printer: when printing from the network, the Laserfiche Snapshot dialog box will not appear; administrator-defined Laserfiche settings will be applied to printed documents.
• Terminal server: if you are printing with the terminal server version of Snapshot, it will behave like any other printer. If other print jobs are being processed, you will not be able to configure document settings through the Laserfiche Snapshot dialog box until they are finished.
• Clicking Cancel from the Laserfiche Snapshot dialog box will cancel the entire print job. A Laserfiche document will not be created, and the files generated by Snapshot for that print job will be deleted.

Related Topics

• Printing Multiple Documents
• Printing Multiple Documents in Snapshot
• Print to an Existing Laserfiche Document
• Print Color Content in Black and White