# Filename when Printing

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/filename-when-printing/6800>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Created:** [July 1, 2013, 5:08pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/filename-when-printing/6800 "2013-07-01T17:08:04Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![cacordova](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bbce88/32.png) [@cacordova](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/cacordova)\
**Post date:** [July 1, 2013, 5:08pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/filename-when-printing/6800/1 "2013-07-01T17:08:04Z")

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Hi,

So I’m working on this project and have a button where I can print the contents of the root container. Anyway, so right now when I’m printing it, since i don’t have any printers now, it’s just converting it to pdf, which is also good, but the file name is always “Java Printing” how can I set it to be the date today? Like for example “20130701 Report”

Thanks

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**Author:** ![anna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/779978/32.png) [@anna](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/anna)\
**Post date:** [July 1, 2013, 11:20pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/filename-when-printing/6800/2 "2013-07-01T23:20:21Z")

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This sounds like the job gets directed to another (default) printer, which seems to be “PDF Printer” in this case. At this point, it is not Ignition making the PDF, so the file name is not defined by Ignition (but rather, by that specific printer), so you will not be able to force the file name from Ignition.

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**Author:** ![cacordova](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bbce88/32.png) [@cacordova](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/cacordova)\
**Post date:** [July 2, 2013, 4:47pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/filename-when-printing/6800/3 "2013-07-02T16:47:39Z")

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Oh ok, I see. Thank You!