After you've created a map or layout, you may want to share your map or layout by printing it.
Print a map or layout by doing the following:
- Make sure a map or layout is your active view.
- On the Share tab, in the Print group, click Map
or Layout , depending on the active view.The Print Map or Print Layout pane appears.
- Choose a printer from the Printer Name drop-down list.
- Set any additional properties for the print job, such as page orientation and number of copies.
- Click Print.
- Optionally, once the printing has completed you can select another map or layout view to print.
Printing options
A variety of printing options can be set in the Print Layout and Print Map panes. The options are common to most printers. If you need to access additional printer properties specific to your printer, click the Properties button under the printer name.
The following properties can be set in the pane:
| Property | Description |
|---|---|
| Printer Name | The printer where the job will be sent. |
| Size | The paper size the map or layout will be printed on. |
| Source | The paper source for the printer, such as Tray 1 or Tray 2. |
| Orientation | The page orientation for printing. If printing a layout, this can be different than the layout page orientation. Choose between Portrait |
| Number of copies | The number of times the layout or map is printed. |
| Print in black and white | Print the map or layout in black and white. Uncheck this option to print in color, if the printer supports color printing. |
| Tiling | How the layout is printed if the page size and orientation do not match the printer paper size and orientation. See print tiling for additional information. |
| Output Quality | The amount of raster resampling, which determines the raster resolution (dpi). Raster resolution is a ratio of your printer resolution. If the ratio is set to 1:3, the raster data will be printed at one-third the dpi set for your printer. You can change the ratio to increase the quality of your raster data or decrease the quality and print faster. If your map does not contain raster data, this setting is not applicable. |
| Map Series | The map series pages that are printed. See print a map series for additional information. |
| Print to file | Create a printer file (.prn) instead of printing immediately. Use the Browse button |
or 
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to set where the file will be created.Print tiling
Use tiling options to specify how the layout is printed on the printer paper. This is important if your layout is larger or smaller than the printer paper size, because the tiling options determine whether the layout will be scaled. If your layout is the same size as the printer paper, no scaling will occur. To determine if your layout will fit on the printer paper size, review the Tiling section. It displays an image of the printer paper and a blue map representing the elements on the layout. If the map area is outside the paper area, your layout doesn't fit on the printer paper, and you'll need to use a different tiling option to print the entire layout. There are three options:
- Actual—Print the layout at its size without fitting it to the printer paper size. Use this option when the layout is the same size as the printer paper or to print a small layout on larger printer paper with white space around it.
- Fit to paper size—Shrink or stretch the layout to fit on the printer paper. Use this option for layouts larger or smaller than the printer paper when the layout needs to fill the entire page.
- Tile oversized—Print the entire layout across multiple pages. Use this option for layouts larger than the printer paper size when you need to preserve the layout size.
When Tile oversized is selected, you can print all the tiles or a selection of tiles. To print only certain tiles, choose the Tiles button and type the tile numbers in the text box. You can also fill in the Overlap text box to specify an overlap of the printed area in points. This overlap can be useful when piecing the tiles together after printing.
Note:
The Actual and Tile oversized options are only available for layouts. Maps are always set to Fit to paper size.
Print a map series
If the layout you are printing contains a map series, you can choose which pages of the map series to print. Expand the Map Series heading to choose the pages. The following options are available:
- All—Print all the pages in the map series.
- Current—Print only the page currently displayed in the layout view.
- Selected index features—Print the map series pages for the index features selected in the map. You can show or hide the selection symbols for the index features.
- Selected pages—Print the pages selected in the contents pane.
- Page range—Print only the pages specified.
Note:
Selected index features is not available for bookmark map series because a bookmark map series doesn't have an index layer.
Choosing Print range requires you to input the pages you want to print. You can input individual page numbers separated by commas or a range of pages separated by a dash. For example, 1,2,5-8 will print the first, second, fifth, sixth, seventh, and eighth pages of the map series.
If a map is being printed or if the layout being printed does not contain a map series, these options are disabled.