Add Cover Page to documents

The Black Ice X1 Printer Drivers have a built-in feature to insert a cover page as the first page of the converted document. The Cover Page feature is available only for documents converted to PDF or TIFF files. The Cover Page option can be configured to automatically open the Cover Page in the default form-filling application to fill the Cover Page or add the form to the converted document without filling the form.

If users only need to add cover pages to certain documents, the Add Cover Page option can also be enabled on the "Save As" window. To read more about how to add cover pages using the "Save As" window, please see the Save As Dialogsection of the manual.

To enable the Add Cover Page option, please navigate to Control Panel > Devices and Printers > right-click on the Black Ice Printer Driver > Printing Preferences > Start Application tab, and check the Add Cover Page checkbox.

Click on the Configure… button to configure how to add cover pages to printed documents.

Users can decide to select the cover page during printing or add the same cover page to every printed document. The following options are available:

• The user selects the Cover Page during printing – If enabled, users can select the cover page to be printed on the Select Cover Page window during printing. By closing the Select Cover Page window, no cover page will be added to the printed document.

• Add the selected Cover Page to every printed document – If enabled, users can select a default cover page to be added as the first page of the printed document. The Printer Driver will not prompt the user to select a cover page during printing. The selected cover page can be seen under the Cover Page Settings section.

• To select the default cover page, please click on the Edit List button. On the Select the Default Cover Page window, please select the desired cover page and click on the Save Selected As Default button to save the selected cover page as default.

Cover Page Filler Settings

Under the Cover Page Filler Settings section, users can configure whether or not and when to launch the cover page filler application when printing a document.

• Attach the selected Cover Page – If selected, the Printer Driver will attach the selected cover page as the first page of the document, but no cover page filler application will be launched.

• Start the Cover Page filler before printing – If selected, the built-in Cover Page Filler window appears before printing the document.

NOTE: The Start the Cover Page filler before Printing option is not available for the PDF file format.

• Start the Cover Page filler after printing – If selected, the user default cover page filler application will be launched after printing the document. The user default cover page filler application can be seen under the Cover Page Settings section of the Add Cover Page window.

Cover Page Settings

Under the Cover Page Settings section of the Add Cover Page window, information can be seen on the currently selected cover page, the user's default cover page filler application, and the user can select a default cover page and edit the list of the cover pages available.

To select a default cover page or edit the list of cover pages, please click on the Edit List button.

Select the default Cover Page

If the Add selected cover page to every printed document option is checked, users can add a cover page that will be inserted as the first page of the printed document without prompting the user to select a cover page during printing. To change the default cover page, please select a cover page from the list and click on the Save Selected As Default button.

How to edit the Cover Page list

On the Select the Default Cover Page window, users can add or remove cover pages. The following options are available:

• Add Cover Page – One can browse and add new cover pages to the list. Cover Pages added by a user are marked (Private) and they can be removed by the User without Administrator privileges.

• Remove Cover Page – To remove a cover page from the list, please select a cover page and click on the Remove Cover Page button. A Domain User or System User can not remove "Private" cover pages. "Common" cover pages can only be removed by the Administrator.

• Add CP for All Users – Administrators can browse and add "Common" cover pages to the list. Common Cover Pages added by an Administrator will be available for every user. This function is only available for Administrators.

Cover Page Filler application options for PDF and Tiff Documents

The table below shows some examples of cover filler applications for different file formats.

To read more about how to remove “Common” cover pages, please refer to the How to remove commonly used Cover Pages section of the manual.