Printing
To print
a score
Portrait orientation is the usual setup—the page is taller than it is wide; Landscape
orientation is “sideways.” Letter size is 8.5 by 11 inches; Legal
size is 8.5 by14 inches.
- Choose Page Setup from the File menu.
The Page Setup dialog box appears. Click Letter or Legal to specify the
paper size. Specify the orientation by clicking Portrait or Landscape.
- Make sure your page layout matches the paper
size and orientation you’ve just specified (unless Use Finale’s Page Orientation
Instead of Printer’s Page Orientation is checked in Program Options-Save
and Print, in which case the
printer’s orientatation is ignored). See Page size for instructions.
- Click OK (or press return).
If you’re in Page View, go to page 1.
- Choose Update Layout from the Edit menu.
By choosing Update Layout, you’re reformatting the music so that no measures
are unnecessarily wide or narrow.
- Choose Print from the File menu. The Select Score and Parts for Printing dialog
box appears where you can select the parts and/or score you want to print.
Check the desired items, specify the number of copies and click OK.
The Print dialog box appears letting you specify the range of pages to
print. If you only want the first page to print, type 1 in both the From
and To boxes.
- Click OK (or press return).
The printer should begin to print in a few moments.
- To cancel printing, press command-period
(.). Because the computer
sends data to the printer faster than the printer can process it, there
will be a momentary pause before the computer and printer stop printing.
To print
large scores by taping smaller pages together
See Tiling
pages for printing.
To
print linked parts
See Printing
linked parts.
To print marching band parts (flip-folder size)
To print marching band parts formatted to print two pages per 8.5 x 11 sheet of paper, stacked vertically:
- Start your marching band score using the "Marching Band" Document Style or "Marching Band" template. See Document Styles and Finale Score Templates. If you are working with a score that you did not start one of these two ways, set the part page size to octavo. To do so: From the Document menu, choose Page Format > Parts. Under Page Size, choose Octavo (6.75 x 10.5), set the orientation to Landscape, and click OK. Then, choose the Page Layout Tool
, and from the Page Layout Menu, choose Redefine Pages > [the pages and parts you wish to change to octavo]. Click OK.
- From the File menu, choose Print.
Choose the parts you would like to print and click OK.
- Click the third popup menu from the top (it reads "Copies and Pages" by default) and choose Layout. Set "Pages per sheet" to 2 and then set the desired layout direction.
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Click Print.
