Printings

 
This menu allows to make many kind of printings:
 
PRINT LOG:

This function allows to perform printings at discretion of the Log. You can print on a text file or on a HTML file, readable with any browser, Explorer, Firefox, etc, and also in Excel (Microsoft) / Calc (Sun). You can also print your log as a paper log, to be signed and kept in your shack for any legal occours. It is possible to select the fields to include in the printing:

 

 

Tagging the Date Filter box you can select a date range, tagging the various managed Awards you can add the info contained in the related dedicated areas. Tagging Date Ascending box the log will be printed from the oldest QSO to the newest one. Of course the criteria can be merged. The three buttons select the printing in Excel, HTML or TXT. With Station Logbook you can print a proper legal Logbook, and with Start nr. you can define the starting number of the list. The checkbox SUM QRB allows to get the amount of the QRB's useful in some purposes, for certain bands.

 
This is a sample of HTML printing:
 

 
This is a sample of TXT printing:
 

 
PRINT LABELS AND QSL CARDS:
In this section is shown how to print the labels with QSO data and the QSL cards.

First of all you must select the QSO to print. The grid shown below contains all QSOs with checkbox. You can select each QSO to print or all them with "Select all". You can also select from which log you wish to take the QSOs: one, two, or more. With Countries Filter you can select all Countries or only one Country to visualize just the QSOs with that Country.

 

 

This window is the same for labels and QSL cards. Their number is shown in colour magenta. Last column on the right allows to select the QSOs  wherefor you want to send the QSL card via direct. By default all QSO are sat to Y (send the QSL card via bureau) but they can be manually sat to D (send the QSL card via direct) through a menu. Once the selection has been done, click on PRINT LABELS or QSL TEMPLATE if you are using PRINT QSL:

 

 

This window is the "Printing Central" for labels: here all the printing parameters: label size (green backgroud boxes), number of rows and coluoms (yellow background boxes), and the distances between the labels and the edges of the sheet with the white backgroud boxes. The preselected size is A4. In the right lower part of the screen you can see the label you are going to print. All elements can be modified and placed where the user wishes. Selecting an element (its background becomes yellow) it can be moved with the mouse or changing the co-ordinatee X and Y. In the sample the sheet contains 24 labels (3 columns multiplied 8 rows) but the user can set the other data. Once you found all your settings about the labels you can save your project with SAVE TEMPLATE key to use it further. The key LOAD TEMPLATE loads one of the saved templates, the blue key PRINTER selects the printer to use in case you have more than one. With BACKGROUND IMAGE key we can load a background picture. Eac label can contain up to 6 QSOs.The checkbox Economy Sheet optimize your printings: e.g. selecting a number of labels per sheet = 24 and the labels to print are 26, the program does not print last two labels. Untagging the checkbox the program uses two A4 sheets, whose one of them will be partially used to print only two labels. The boxes on the right side are: LABEL EDGES produces a printing with borderlines; GROUP CALLSIGNS allow to group different QSOs with same callsigns in one label; PRINT COMMENTS inserts the content of the Comment field in the label: it can be useful for dx-peditions on something else that need to print various informations on your label. With FONT SIZE and INTERLINE buttons you can increase/decrease the size of the characters and the space between two lines in the label. You can change the colour and the font of all the items selecting them and clicking with right key of the mouse. If Group Callsigns is enabled, the QSOs can be sorted with ascending or descending date. With the PRINT/PREVIEW you enter to the printing  preview and to the printing process:

 

 

If all is OK you can print your labels pressing the icon with the printer in the upper left corner. After the printing a box will appear asking you if you want to update your log. Selecting YES the status QSLs of that QSO turns from "N" to "Y" or "D" if the QSL card has been sent via direct.

The QSL BUFFER allows to sort any column alphabetically or vice-versa, so sorting by CALL you can get the printing sorted by CALL.

The menu PRINT QSL CARDS allows to print QSL cards to OM or to SWL. Similariry to the label printing from the printing buffer the user has to select the QSOs to print on QSL card. It is possible to select the way (bureau or direct).

 

 

In this window the user can edit the basic template in order to create personalized models, for any purposes. The boxes can be positioned elsewhere and the pictures can be replaced with other pictures. The star on the bar (*) can be replaced with a text and represent the content of the comment field, printable tagging the checkbox PRINT COMMENT. The checkbox GROUP CALLSIGNS allow to print different QSOs/HRD reports with same call /SWL on a QSL, and the checkbox VERTICAL LOADING allows to print QSL in vertical, "Japan style". Until 8 QSOs per horizontal QSL and 8 QSO + 8 comment rows per vertical QSL are printable. The box Pse/Tnx QSL gets the data from the status of the QSLr field, and change consequentially: if QSLr = "N" then the program will print Pse QSL otherwise it will print  Tnx QSL. B IMPORTANT:  since the ver. 1.0.2.0 the settings of the templates, both QSL and labels ones, have been changed, so maybe some templates you saved before could appear not so good, in this case, put them in the bin and make them again from current default templates, modifying and saving them.

 
QSL CUSTOM allows to print QSL cards with a pre-printed rear, positionig all QSO data in the wished location:
 

 

To set the layout, first of all make a scan of the back of your QSL card, then load the picture with the key Background Image. Now double-click on the elements you want to appear on your card. The selected element will appear on the upper left corner of the QSL card. With a right-click is possible to set the font and its size and colour, or delete the element, and with the left button it is possible to drag and drop the element in its location. X and Y value will help for the line adjustment. It is possible also to insert pictures and custom texts. Once your custom QSL is finished, you can save it and use it later. Since the background picture is just for setting the layout, it won't be saved, unless the checkbox Image Background is selected. Anyway it is possible to print the QSL card with or without the background picture (e.g. for white-back QSL cards). To get the background image away, just click again on the same key. Please notice that you can choose the Band or the Frequency although the Log Sheet shows only the band, because many printed QSL cards show the Frequency instead of the Band. Of course the Frequency won't be exact, but approximated: 20m = 14 Mhz, 40m = 7 MHz, 10m = 28 MHz, 2m = 144 MHz and so on.