===== PrinterOn (Statement) =====
==== Format ====
**printeron**\\
**printer on**

==== Description ====

Turns printing on.  Once printing is on the graphics commands [[Arc|Arc]], [[Chord|Chord]], [[Circle|Circle]], [[Color|Color]], [[Imgload|Imgload]], [[Line|Line]], [[PenWidth|PenWidth]], [[Pie|Pie]], [[Plot|Plot]], [[Poly|Poly]], [[Rect|Rect]], [[Stamp|Stamp]], and [[Text|Text]]  will draw on the printer page and not the graphics area of the screen. [[Graphheight|Graphheight]], [[Graphwidth|Graphwidth]], [[TextHeight|TextHeight]], and [[TextWidth|TextWidth]] also reports information about the printer graphical page.

Once the printer pages are rendered the [[PrinterOff|printeroff]] statement sends the print document to the selected printer or to a PDF file.  The device and device options can be setup from the Edit/Printer Preferences menu option.
  
==== Example ====

<code>
printer on
font "Arial", 20, 50
for l = 0 to 10
   text 0,l*textheight(), "line " + l
next l
printer off
</code>

==== See Also ====
{{page>en:start#Printing&noheader}}

==== History ==== 
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