How to Create a Template for an Impact Printer Using Open Office
An “impact printer” is one that prints characters on the page using forcible impact of a printhead to transfer ink to paper. A non-impact printer is one that does not utilize impact for the transfer of ink, such as laser and ink-jet printers. However, there is no difference when creating templates in OpenOffice, or any other program, to be used with impact printers. Simply design your template as you normally would do, and then save the file in the “template” format. For example, if you are creating your template in OpenOffice Writer, the word processing program included in the OpenOffice suite of products, save the template in the OpenOffice template format.
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Open the desired OpenOffice application. For example, to create a word processing document, launch OpenOffice Writer.
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Create or open the document to use for the template. Save the file and note the location where the file is saved.
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Click the “File” option on the top taskbar, and then click “Templates.”
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Click the “Organize” option. The Organize dialog box opens.
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Click the “My Templates” folder in the dialog box. You can also create a new folder from the dialog box by clicking “Commands” from the top taskbar, and then clicking “New.” The New Folder dialog box opens. Name the folder and click “OK.”
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Click the “Commands” option on the top navigation bar, and then click “Import Template.” The Import Template dialog box opens.
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Navigate to and click on the file to save as a template and then click “Open.” A preview of the document appears in the dialog box.
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Click the “Close” button. The template has been added to your Templates section, and activated.
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Click the “File” option and then click “Print.” Click the impact printer from the “Printers" drop-down box and click “Print" to print the template to the impact printer.
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