Printing Preferences
The image in the active View window can
be printed by selecting or
clicking on the Print button. The normal
operating system Print dialog is then
displayed.
Print output is also controlled by settings in the Print Preferences, as shown below. Settings in
the Print dialog have precedence over
those in the preferences.

GaussView Print Preferences
Default values are displayed in this dialog.
The controls in this dialog have the following meanings:
- Object Quality: This
slider specifies the quality of the generated print image. Both the
time required for rendering and the print job size increase as the
slider moves to the Realistic end of the
scale.
- Automatically Increase Image
Resolution: The default print operation increases the image
resolution to match the printer resolution, up to the maximum factor
specified in the Limit Image Enlargements to field.
- Limit Image Enlargement to:
Specifies the maximum resolution increase for automatic operations.
Note that this control does not affect image size (see the next
control).
- Enlarge Width and Height by:
Increase the image size by the indicated factor. If automatic image
resolution is disabled, increasing this may result in poorer quality in
the printed image.
- Background Color:
Specify the background color for the image. The default is white.
- Gray Scale: Produce a
gray scale (toned black-and-white) image. The default is a color image.
The remaining controls specify low-level graphics behavior. Generic Pixel Format says to use the system
software renderer. This option should be checked only after rendering
problems/failures have been encountered during image capture or
printing.
The Render Method popup specifies the
rendering method to use in generating the image:

The default is This
setting seldom needs to be changed.