# More flexibility when printing reports **URL:** \ **Category:** Ignition\ **Created:** [September 11, 2010, 1:22pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/more-flexibility-when-printing-reports/2185 "2010-09-11T13:22:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![AlThePal](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/althepal/32/3603_2.png) [@AlThePal](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/AlThePal)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2010, 1:22pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/more-flexibility-when-printing-reports/2185/1 "2010-09-11T13:22:11Z")
Currently you can print a control using system.print.createPrintJob. This allows you to configure things like page orientation and margin size in code before printing. If you try to print a report using report.print(), you cannot specify any of these values. It would be useful to be able to do this. Otherwise for a report that just fits onto the page for example, the user has to set the margins every time before they print. ---
**Author:** ![Carl.Gould](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/carl.gould/32/7262_2.png) [@Carl.Gould](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Carl.Gould)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2010, 5:31pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/more-flexibility-when-printing-reports/2185/2 "2010-09-17T17:31:30Z")
The margins are a property of the report itself. Set them in the report customizer. ![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/1X/bcdaa0bb84bf5ffecaf46417ffc7b35ec0626487.PNG) ---
**Author:** ![AlThePal](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/althepal/32/3603_2.png) [@AlThePal](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/AlThePal)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2010, 7:06pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/more-flexibility-when-printing-reports/2185/3 "2010-09-17T19:06:15Z")
That’s great, thanks.