Printer Preferences

To open Printing Preferences select File > Printing Preferences.

If you are on a network the IP address of your computer is displayed in the top left of this window. This is a quick and easy way of finding out your IP address.

Windows:

Macintosh:

There are twelve different printing jobs listed on this page i.e. prescriptions, pathology requests, x-ray requests or plain A4 jobs, accounts, labels, private medicare claim forms, overseas students claim forms, and DVA and Medicare DB4 forms.

Note: There is a big difference between private Medicare claim forms and Medicare DB4 forms. Don’t get them confused! The Medicare claim form is used by the patient to lodge a claim with Medicare in order to receive their rebate, while the Medicare DB4 form is used when bulk billing a patient.

Separate Preferences for each Genie user on this computer: only referrers to people who are using Terminal Services.

Medicare DB4, should only be ticked if you are using HIC Online.

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You can have the DVA Claims ticked if using either manual batching, or HIC Online. If you use HIC Online, you are able to print out a computer generated voucher, instead of using the manual slips.

For each job, you can select the appropriate printer from the black drop-down menu.

This menu will display all the printers installed on your computer. If the printer you want isn't shown, then you need to install it. Consult Mac Help, or Microsoft Help for instructions on how to install printers.

On Windows, once you have selected a printer, the available trays for that printer are displayed in the Tray menu to the right of the printer. Select the tray that you want each job to go to.

On Macs, the button allows you to save the options in the Print dialogue screens.

Automatic tray selection works on all the laser printers we have tested. However, if it doesn't work as expected on your printer, you should select the Ask For Print Settings checkbox, so that it can be switched manually in the Print Dialog.

For each job you can instruct Genie to display the Print Dialog before printing, by selecting the Ask For Printer Settings checkbox.

The Print Dialog is the window that usually appears when printing in which you can change printers, set the trays, set the number of copies etc.

If you don't select this option, then Genie will just print immediately to the selected printer. Plain A4 and Letters will always print to the default printer.

If you are using a single bin printer you can, in fact, select the Bypass Printing Preferences checkbox and have everything print to your default printer. This makes printing a little faster because Genie doesn't have to find out the current printer, nor change to a different printer everytime you print.

Keep resource file between logins, if left unticked, will automatically delete the Genie.res file from the 4D preferences folder when quitting the client to ensure that updated resources (e.g. version number and date, etc) are downloaded from the server when the server is updated. If you do not wish for this to occur then tick the option to keep the resource file.

Adjusting the Print Area

The 4 green and blue arrows at the bottom left of this window are used to adjust the position of printed text on the page.

Because each printer has different default margins you may need to adjust the positioning for prescriptions in order for them to print in the correct position on their pre-printed sheets.