Printing Slides on the Polaroid Digital Palette (Mac Only) You must be using the Macintosh connected to the Polaroid Digital Palette Slide Printer. Digital images and text from virtually any software can be printed onto normal 35 mm slide or print film. The process is fairly simple in that all you are doing is selecting the Digital Palette as your printer and the film as your media (paper). The film is then developed at any photo shop. Procedure 1) Make Slide Images: Just about any software on the Macintosh can generate a slide image. Microsoft PowerPoint is a good choice to develop the slide layout and will import most generic graphics file formats (Tiff, GIF, JPEG, PICT, etc.). PowerPoint will also generate the appropriate slide dimensions so that your content will not overlap the edges or give you white borders. 2) Select the Digital Palette as the Printer - Select the Chooser from the Apple menu in the upper left corner of the monitor. Click on the Polaroid HR4.1-E icon in the upper left box of the Chooser window. 3) Adjust Printer Settings - Choose the Page Setup or Slide Setup item from the File menu of the program you used to generate your slides. You will find the following settings: Figure 1: Page Setup for the Digital Palette as opened from MS PowerPoint. Set the following options in Page Setup: Orientation - Landscape or Portrait Slides Sized for: 35 mm. Click OK to close the Page Setup window. 4) Load Film in the Digital Palette - The device is essentially a 35 mm camera and the film loads the same way. When you close the camera back you should hear a motor winding the film. When it is finished the LCD readout on the camera should say "Ready 01 out of 36" (or 12 or 24 depending on the film you loaded). 5) Print Slides - Choose Print under the File menu of the program you used to create your slides. Select Scale to fit paper. Uncheck the Black & white option if you are printing color slides. The Black & White option is selected by default, so you must make sure to deselect it! Preview Prints - this option will give you a preview of what is being sent to the printer before it is printed. You can then cancel if you the print job if you see a problem. This feature is very useful!! Use is the make sure that everything is working correctly. Stop the print preview if everything looks correct. Uncheck the Preview Prints option and then click OK. Your slides will now begin to spool up and print. Figure 2: The Print window for the Polaroid Digital Palette. Click the Preview Prints box. Count on about 5 minutes per slide for PowerPoint presentations. Large images from Photoshop may take a bit longer, but rarely longer than 6 minutes per slide. If you expose all of the film, the slide maker will rewind the film for you and you can then remove it from the camera back. If you have extra exposures left on the film you must manually rewind the film in the slide maker to remove the film canister. This is done by pushing down the blue button on the top of the camera back once and then pushing it again this time holding the button down (click, then click and hold) until the rewind count down elaspes and the remaining film rewinds. You can now remove the film canister from the camera back. Additional notes: It is easiest to print slides from PowerPoint. Printing from other programs requires much more setup. If possible import what you are printing into PowerPoint and print from there. If making slides from other programs such as Canvas or Freehand, size the slides to 7.5" x 5". In Canvas 3.5, be sure the printing preferences (File->Preferences->Printing Preferences) are set to 72 dpi.