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Here are a few more guidelines for those of you getting deeper into the printing business...

1) It may happen that you have problems with extra pages being printed that you were not expecting. More often than not, the root of the problem is one or several objects that you marked as "invisible" in the corresponding Properties window.

2) Should you require that the printing produce a PDF file then we strongly recommend that you test from the very beginning with the appropriate infrastructure and not wait until many print documents are complete. The reason for this is that the conversion programs from Adobe and Ghost use completely different printer drivers in their conversion routines which often cause artifacts in the conversion and may look quite different as normally printed documents. The printing quality may also vary significantly if you do not plan correctly from the very beginning.

3) Try to keep graphs and charts small relative to the printing region. Of particular importance is that no graphs or charts border on the printing region, i.e., keep them as much as possible deep within the printing region. For line graphs with time series, test your printing with daily, weekly and monthly data. As your data fills out a given year you may find that your chart changes in clarity when printing and the quality is reduced. If you take this into account from the start you should see no problem later.

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