Business Administrator offers a lot of printing services for printing reports, invoices, receipts and letters. To do this, it needs to know the size and layout of the stationery you use.
Location: Command Bar, Services
Overview
The dialogue allows you to either tell Business Administrator where it can print on your pre-printed stationery, and it can allow you to design the stationery completely. It works in degrees depending on what you want to achieve.
Developing a corporate style
You can set up several models to work with. Business Administrator will ask you to create a base model, usually a letterhead, and then you develop new models from that.
If you have never used the Stationery dialogue before, Business Administrator will ask you for information about your basic corporate style: what fonts you like, what font size fonts, and so on.
Preparing for pre-printed stationery
Following that, you will be able to start designing the stationery. You should answer a few basic questions about it, whence Business Administrator will render its interpretation. You can modify that design as you see fit.
The green area is the region where Business Administrator will limit its printing to. You can move the green box around the page by clicking and dragging it, and you can resize it by dragging the node in the top left corner.
To make life easy, you may wish to scan a copy of your letterhead and put it in the background of the designer. By doing this, you can place the green box and any graphics accurately.
Always do some tests to ensure Business Administrator prints in the right areas: it is often difficult to transfer what you see on paper to what you see on the screen.
If you use pre-printed stationery, then that’s all you have to do.
Designing your professional stationery
However, if you want Business Administrator to print your stationery from scratch, you’ll have to add logos and graphics to make it look professional.
Note that you should only use this method for low volume work. For high volume work, you should use pre-printed paper, as colour printers are invariably very expensive to run.
Designing the stationery is easy. You simply add your logos and graphics and move and resize them appropriately, in the same way as you did with the green box. Make sure, though, that the green box does not overlap any logos or graphics – that would mean Business Administrator will print over your logos!
For textual items, we recommend you convert them to graphics and treat them as logos.
Graphics environment
Logo bitmap file formats can be Windows bitmaps (.bmp), TIFF files or JPEG files. All should be rendered at 300 dpi in full colour (24 bit or better)
Logo line art and textual graphics should be rendered to Windows metafiles (.wmf), with headers.