Selecting a Print Destination

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Selecting a Print Destination

You can print Sage 300 ERP reports to a printer, to the screen, to a file, or as an attachment to an e-mail message.

Note: You must be assigned to a security group that has authorization to change the print destination, or the only destination available will be a physical printer.

To set the Sage 300 ERP print destination to Printer:

Note: These instructions assume that you have set up printers in Microsoft Windows.

On the Sage 300 ERP Desktop menu, click File > Print Destination.
Select Printer, and then click OK.

When you next print from Sage 300 ERP, the report will be sent to the Windows default printer.

Tip: If you want to confirm the destination printer, page size, and orientation each time you print a report, on the Desktop, click View > Preferences, and then select Confirm on print.

To print to the screen (display reports on your monitor):

On the Sage 300 ERP Desktop menu, click File > Print Destination.
Click Preview.

Note: For Web-based clients, the Preview screen appears first when you click the Print button.

Tip: You can print a report displayed in the Preview window by clicking the Print Report button.

To print to a file:

On the Sage 300 ERP Desktop menu, click File > Print Destination.
Click File.

When you next print from Sage 300 ERP, you are prompted for an export format and a destination.

If you select Disk file as the destination, browse to the location where you want to save the file, accept the file name or type the name you want to use, and then click Save.
If you select Application as the destination, Sage 300 ERP opens the associated application, and displays the report in that application. You can then save the file to a location using the file name you want.
If you select Microsoft Mail as the destination, Sage 300 ERP opens your e‑mail client so that you can send the report as an attachment to recipients you specify.

Note: You can enter the name of a non-existent file or directory to be created by the system when you print. When you print to a file, the report is assigned a unique name, for example, CS1000.TXT.

To print reports as attachments to e-mail messages:

On the Sage 300 ERP Desktop menu, click File > Print Destination.
Select E-mail to create a file that can be attached to an e-mail.
Select either Adobe Acrobat (PDF) or Rich Text Format (RTF) as the file format for the e-mail attachment. More...
You can open PDF files with Adobe Acrobat Reader (available as a free download from the Adobe Software website).
You can open RTF files with most Windows and Linux word processing programs.
Click OK.

When you print using an e-mail destination Sage 300 ERP creates a PDF or RTF version of the report, opens your default e-mail program, and attaches the report file to a new e-mail message. More...

In Microsoft Windows, the default e-mail program is set in Internet Options, in the Control Panel.