4L User Manual
3.2 The Print & Preview Dialog
This is the Print Dialog, shown with the preview pane open
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It features
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• A Printer Drive dropdown menu, to select the LightScribe enabled drive on which you want to print your label. You can click the refresh
button (the rotating arrow) near the dropdown box if you need to detect an external drive that you just plugged.
• The Media Information, with a refresh button. Clicking the refresh button when a drive is selected will tell you if the media in the drive is ready
for printing, and in this case will give you the media ID, and inform you if only generic printing is available.
• A Printing Quality radio button choice. Two qualities are available
: Normal, that will give you a good contrast for a normal printing time,
and Optimal, for the best possible contrast, with more printing time.
• A Cancel button, that closes the print dialog, allowing you to go back to the main window.
• A Preview togglable button, that opens a pane showing the printing preview. This should be a close match to the final printed result. It is
possible to close the preview pane by reclicking the Preview button.
• A Print Button, that actually launches the printing process, and opens the Printing progress Dialog.
3.3 The Printing Progress Dialog
The printing progress dialog features:
• A line of text showing the status of the print, and the time remaining, if an estimation is available.
• A progress bar reflecting the percentage of completion (the percentage is also present in the title bar, so that you can see it in your taskbar).
• A Cancel button, to stop printing. If the printing has already started when you click this button, a confirmation will be asked before actually
stopped it (as the resulting disc would only be partially printed).
When the printing is finished, your disc is ejected, and a dialog displaying a success message is displayed.
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