Landscape

•Force most reports to print in landscape mode.

•If your reports (while printing in portrait) have a font size which is too small to easily read, select the Landscape mode to force the software to print in landscape, which allows more space for each line of data.

Use Shading Bars

•Select this option to include shading bars on most reports.

•This option can only be selected when not using a background image.

Pay Stubs: Include Employee Memo

•Check this box to include the non-private employee memo, if any, on each pay stub.

Pay Stubs: Include Period Ending Date

•Selecting this option will cause the pay stubs to include both the starting and ending date for the pay period.

•For many states, this information is required to be on the pay stub.

Payroll Worksheet: Omit Personal Information

•When this option is selected, the worksheet excludes employee's personal information.

•Only the employee names, and blank spaces for entries are printed.

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.

Note

•Tax, withholding, and government reporting forms and reports, such as a 941, Workers Compensation, and the New Hire Report, will not print in landscape, as duplex, or with a background image.

Technical Notes - Background Image

•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.