PrintDensityBars Property.PrintDensityBars Property

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True to print a density bar for the specified publication. The default is True. Read/write Boolean.

Syntax

expression.PrintDensityBars

expression   A variable that represents a PrintDensityBars Property object.

Return Value
Boolean

Remarks

Returns "Permission Denied" if any print mode other than separations is selected for the specified publication. Use the PrintMode property of the AdvancedPrintOptions object to specifiy the print mode for a publication.

The density bar printed is graded from a 10 percent screen to a 100 percent fill. A commercial printer can use this bar to determine proper exposure time for plate burning, and to test dot gain in the printed pages.

This property corresponds to the Density bars control on the Page Settings tab of the Advanced Print Settings dialog box.

These printer's marks print outside the publication and can be printed only if the size of the paper being printed on is larger than the publication page size.

Example

The following example sets crop marks and job information to print with the publication. If the publication is printed as separations, the additional types of printer's marks are also set to print. This example assumes that the size of the paper being printed to is larger than the publication page size.

Visual Basic for Applications 
  Sub SetPrintersMarksToPrint()
	With ActiveDocument.AdvancedPrintOptions
		.PrintCropMarks = True
		.PrintJobInformation = True
			If PrintMode = pbPrintModeSeparations Then
				.PrintRegistrationMarks = True
				.PrintDensityBars = True
				.PrintColorBars = True
			End If
		End With
End Sub

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