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ezBates is the easy-to-use, inexpensive computer program that replaces your Bates Stamp automatic numbering machine.
ezBates numbers your exhibits and documents more quickly and easily than a Bates Stamp with professionally-looking results. Just stack your letter-size documents in the printer normally used by your computer, start ezBates, fill in the data fields, click Print Next or Print All, then click Print in the pop-up Select Printer window. That's all there is to it. Your text and page numbers will be printed on your documents in consecutive order at the bottom right side of each page in bold, 12 point Arial font.
Other options are easy to select. You can replace the bold, 12 point Arial font with any other font installed on your computer. Simply click Select Font. A font selection window will appear that allows you to choose a different font, font style, and/or font size. You can print leading zeros in front of your page numbers by checking the box for this option. You can change the number of inches from the top of the page where the text and page number are printed by inserting a different value in the Vertical Position data field. You can also change the horizontal position on the page where the text and page number are printed. The program gives you five different choices for the horizontal position. However, you can include spaces before or after the text that precedes the page number. This gives you complete control over the horizontal position as well as the vertical position at which you print the text and page number on each page. Finally, instead of using the printer that your computer normally uses, the pop-up Select Printer window lets you use any printer that is directly connected to your computer or any printer that is one of your network connections.
If your exhibit or document won't fit in your printer or if you need to correct an exhibit or document that was accidentally misnumbered, you can print the page numbers and preceding text on labels instead of directly on your pages. The labels can be either 1/2" by 1-3/4" or 1" by 2-5/8".
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Only three steps are needed to install ezBates on your computer and add it to All Programs in your Start menu. First, go to www.ezbates.biz
and purchase and download a .zip file containing a licensed version of the program. This .zip file has the name ezbates.zip. Second, extract the files and folder from the .zip file to a folder on your computer. Finally, run the Setup.Exe program that you extracted from the .zip file to the folder on your computer.
To uninstall ezBates from your computer, open Control Panel, open Add or Remove Programs, select ezBates, and select Change/Remove.
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When you click Print Next in ezBates and a paper size is selected (either 8 - 1/2 by 11 or 8 - 1/2 by 14), the Select Printer window will pop up. The printer you normally use is the default selection. You can select any other printer that is directly connected to your computer or that is one of your network connections. When you click Print in the Select Printer window, the number in the Beginning Page Number data field and the text in the Preceding Text data field in ezBates is printed on a single page in the printer that you selected. After the print operation is finished, the number in the Beginning Page Number data field is automatically incremented so that when you click Print Next again, the next number in order will be printed on the next page in your printer.
When you click Print Next and a label size rather than a paper size is selected, ezBates will open a window displaying a page that replicates the page of labels for the selected label size, except that the labels in the window are numbered. The number in the Start Printing at Label Number data field is the number of the label upon which your first page number will be printed. You may change the label number in this data field by clicking on a label with a different number. After you select the label number on which the text and page number are to be printed and click Print, the Select Printer window will pop up. Again, the printer you normally use is automatically selected as the default. You can select any other printer that is directly connected to your computer or that is one of your network connections. After the print operation is finished, the number in the Beginning Page Number data field is automatically incremented so that when you click Print Next again, the next number in order will be printed on the next label. However, the page of labels will be ejected from the printer after the Print Next operation is finished. In order to resume printing on the next label on that same page of labels, you must load the page of labels back into the printer.
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Print All is like Print Next except when you click Print in the Select Printer window, each consecutive number in the range from Beginning Page Number to Ending Page Number is printed on separate pages or labels. After the print operation is complete, the ezBates Beginning Page Number and the ezBates Ending Page Number are automatically set to the next number in order after the last number that was printed. If you are printing labels, the range of numbers from Beginning Page Number to Ending Page Number and the preceding text will be printed on the labels row-by-row in consecutive order from Beginning Page Number to Ending Page Number.
The last page of labels will be ejected from the printer after the print operation is finished. In order to resume printing another number or range of numbers on that same page of labels, you must load that page of labels back into the printer.
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Paper trays in some printers feed pages into the printer so that the page side facing up in the printer is the page side that is printed. To print a range of page numbers on a stack of documents in a face-up paper tray, enter the lowest page number in the Beginning Page Number data field and the highest page number in the Ending Page Number data field. Click Print All, then click Print in the Select Printer window. Page numbers will be printed in increasing order starting with the page at the top of your stack until all numbers in the range of numbers from Beginning Page Number to Ending Page Number have been printed.
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Some printers only have paper trays that feed pages into the printer so that the page side facing down in the printer is the page side that is printed. Using a face-down paper tray with ezBates is slightly more complicated than using a face-up paper tray. There are three ways to print a range of page numbers on a stack of documents in a face-down paper tray:
1. Order the stack of documents so that the document to have the lowest page number is on the bottom of the stack and the document to have the highest page number is on the top of the stack. Enter the lowest page number in the Beginning Page Number data field and the highest page number in the Ending Page Number data field. Click Print All, then find and select the option in the pop-up Select Printer window that reverses the order of page number printing. When you click Print in the Select Printer window, page numbers will be printed in decreasing order starting with the page at the top of your stack until all numbers in the range of numbers from Ending Page Number to Beginning Page Number have been printed.
2. Order the stack of documents so that the document to have the lowest page number is on the bottom of the stack and the document to have the highest page number is on the top of the stack, then enter the highest page number in the Beginning Page Number data field and the lowest page number in the Ending Page Number data field. Click Print All, then click Print in the Select Printer window. Page numbers will be printed in decreasing order starting with the page at the top of your stack until all numbers in the range of numbers from Beginning Page Number to Ending Page Number have been printed.
3. Reverse the order of your documents so that the document to have the lowest page number is at the top of the stack and the document to have the highest page number is at the bottom of the stack, then enter the lowest page number in the Beginning Page Number data field and the highest page number in the Ending Page Number data field. Click Print All, then click Print in the Select Printer window. Page numbers will be printed in increasing order starting with the page at the top of your stack until all numbers in the range of numbers from Beginning Page Number to Ending Page Number have been printed.
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When you place text in the Preceding Text data field, that text (including any spaces you insert before or after the text) is printed in front of the page numbers. In order to separate the text from the numbers, include a space in the Preceding Text data field after the text.
A space is displayed in the Preceding Text data field as an underscore. Underscores in the preceding Text data field are printed on your pages or labels as spaces.
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You can print leading zeros in front of your page numbers by checking the box for this option. When you check the Leading Zeros box, ezBates includes leading zeros with the number so that six digits are always printed. For example, ezBates will print the number 35 as 000035. You can print a larger or smaller number of leading zeros by leaving the Leading Zeros box unchecked and putting the desired number of leading zeros in the Preceding Text data field.
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You can select one of two different paper sizes or one of two different label sizes.
The paper size may either be 8-1/2 by 11 inches or 8-1/2 by 14 inches.
The label size may either be 1/2 by 1-3/4 inches or 1 by 2-5/8 inches.
When you click Print Next or Print All and a label size rather than a paper size is selected, ezBates will open a window displaying a page that replicates the page of labels for the selected label size, except that the labels in the window are numbered. When you click Print in this window, ezBates will print the number in the Beginning Page Number data field and the text in the Preceding Text data field on the label number in the Start Printing At Label Number data field. You may change the label number in this data field by clicking on a label with a different number. If you have clicked Print All, the range of numbers from Beginning Page Number to Ending Page Number and the preceding text will be printed on the labels row-by-row in consecutive order from Beginning Page Number to Ending Page Number.
When you change from one paper size to another or select a label size rather than a paper size, ezBates may automatically adjust the value in the Vertical Position data field so that your number and preceding text will be printed at the bottom of a page. You can ignore the value in the Vertical Position data field if you are printing on labels because your number and preceding text will always be horizontally and vertically centered on the label. However, if you are printing on pages and you want your number and preceding text to be printed at a different vertical position on the page than at the bottom, you may need to change the value in the Vertical Position data field after you have selected your paper size.
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You can print the page number and preceding text in any font that is installed on your computer. The page number and preceding text will be printed in Arial, bold, 12 point font unless you click Select Font and choose a different font, font style, and/or font size from the pop-up font selection window.
When you change fonts, ezBates automatically adjusts the value in the Vertical Position data field so that your number and preceding text will be printed at the bottom of the page. If you want your number and preceding text to be printed at a different vertical position on the page, you must change the value in the Vertical Position data field after you have selected your new font.
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When you select a paper size rather than a label size, you can choose one of the following five horizontal positions on the page to print the page number and any preceding text:
1. Left Margin. The page number and any preceding text are printed beginning at one inch from the left edge of the page.
2. Mid Left. The page number and any preceding text are printed so that they are centered at 2-1/8 inches from the left edge of the page.
3. Center. The page number and any preceding text are printed so that they are centered at the middle of the page.
4. Mid Right. The page number and any preceding text are printed so that they are centered at 6-3/8 inches from the left edge of the page.
5. Right Margin. The page number and any preceding text are printed so that they are right-justified at one inch from the right edge of the page.
When you select a label size rather than a paper size, the page number and any preceding text will always be horizontally centered on the label.
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When you select a paper size rather than a label size, you may specify the vertical position at which the page number and any preceding text are to be printed. This vertical position is input in the Vertical Position data field as a distance in inches from the top of the page to the top of the number. Note that if you change the font size, you may need to change the vertical position at which the page number and any preceding text are to be printed in order to keep the page number and any preceding text at the same vertical location relative to the bottom of the page.
When you select a label size rather than a paper size, the page number and any preceding text will always be vertically centered on the label.
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