Printing a PDF

Once you have paid for the license, you will be able to download a printable PDF of the book you want to print. Below are some guidelines for printing PDFs so that you can give your customer the best quality at the most affordable price.

We recommend that you print your PDF in black and white.

Some PDFs may have colour covers or colour images and diagrams. Printing these in colour can become very expensive for your customer – you don’t want this! To make sure that you are offering your customer the best service, always check if they want you to print in colour, but recommend that printing in black and white reduces the cost.

We recommend that you print your PDF on double-sided sheets.

These documents can be very long. It is best to print the document out on double-sided sheets, so that you save paper. If you have one, use a secondary printer to print PDFs. These PDFs can be big files. Because of this, your printer might take a long time to prepare before it begins to print the document. This could mean a delay for other customers. In order to reduce the interruption of your printing services to the rest of your customers, it is recommended that you use a secondary printer, and not your main printer, to print these PDFs.

If you only have one printer, try to time your printing of big files so that printing a large PDF won’t interrupt your services to your other customers.

Tip: Your best indicator of whether or not a document might take longer for your printer to prepare than normal is the PDF’s file size, not the number of pages it has. The bigger the file size, the longer it will take to print.

If you are able to bind the document, offer this to your customers.

Binding the printout will make it easier for your customer to use. If you have a binding machine, offer this to your customers – but remember to tell them that it costs extra.

Please note: Once you have completed printing your customer’s documents, we recommend that you delete the PDF from your computer. Should electronic copies of Paperight documents be shared in an unauthorised manner, it would hurt your business as well as ours. Further, as each of the documents you print out has your customer’s information on it, it is in both your and your customer’s best interests to make sure that that information is not shared. See our terms and conditions for more information.