About printing
MapPoint has options and settings that you can select to print a variety of maps in a wide range of styles.
Document printing options
You can print many different types of maps, in addition to driving directions for a route:
Current map view. Prints the area of the map currently displayed on your screen.
Driving directions only. Prints the driving directions for your calculated route as text. Does not print maps.
Turn-by-turn maps. Prints small maps of the intersection of every turn along the route. The driving directions for each turn are printed below the associated map.
Strip maps. Prints consecutive portions of a map on the left side of each page, with the corresponding directions on the right. For routes that are printed on multiple pages, the strip map shows the portion of the route included in the current page of the directions.
Selected area map. Prints only the selected area of the map.
Highlighted places maps. Prints street-level maps, with associated text, for each place or pushpin that has been highlighted on the map.
Faxable map. Prints a high-contrast grayscale map that is suitable for faxing.
Along with your document, you can include the following information:
Overview map. Prints an overview map along with your document. If you are printing a route, the overview map shows the entire route.
Map legend. Prints the map legend along with your document.
Summary statistics. Prints the summary information about your route, including distance, duration of trip, driving time, and cost.
Note You can also print the map as a full-page map when printing the current map view. The printed area of a full-page map extends the current map view to include as much of the map as fits on the page.
Print settings
You can fine-tune how you want your document to appear by adjusting the print quality in the following ways:
Draft. Maps are printed at the highest speed with slightly less detail than the other selections.
Normal. Maps are printed with good detail at an average speed.
Presentation. Maps are printed at the highest level of detail at a slower speed than the other selections. This type of printout requires more computer memory resources than the other types.
For maps that contain routes, you can set the page breaks so that your document prints:
A route on as few pages as possible.
High-detail strip maps at a low altitude by using more pages.
Each stop on a separate page.
Each day of your trip on a separate page.
A new page every certain number of miles or hours, as you have designated.
Printing to a file
Instead of sending a document to the printer, printing to a file saves your document as a file that you can print later. A printer file includes the necessary information from your document so that formatting is retained when you print. Any printer that uses the same printer language (for example, PostScript) can print the file and match the output from your computer, provided that the document fonts are available on the printer. Also, when you use a printer file, you can print your document from a computer that doesn't have MapPoint installed.