How to Set Printer Assignments in Cornerstone

Throughout the course of the day in your practice you will print many different forms and labels, from different locations in your practice. Cornerstone will print these documents to the default printer that is installed on that workstation. This is acceptable for most of your documents, but not for certain specific items, such as prescription labels. Additionally, if you have multiple printers in your practice, you don’t want to have to walk from one end of the building to the other every time you print. Cornerstone remedies this by allowing each workstation to set the destinations for all the documents, forms, and labels your practice uses. This ensures that each printing goes to the correct, and most easily accessible, destination. Furthermore, if a printer becomes unavailable due to a hardware failure, lack of toner, etc, it is easy to reroute the printing destinations.

      1. Log into Cornerstone. Left-click the “File” drop-down menu, move the mouse over “Printer Assignment”, then left-click “End of Day”.

      2. In the next window, left-click the drop-down arrow at the end of the “Printer:” field and left-click the appropriate printer from the list. (This is the printer you would like all of the “End of Day” documents to print to).

      3. Left-click the “Select All” button, then left-click the “OK” button. 

       4. Left-click the “File” drop-down menu, move the mouse over “Printer Assignment”, and then left-click “End of Month”.

      5. In the next window, left-click the drop-down arrow at the end of the “Printer:” field and left-click the appropriate printer from the list. (This is the printer you would like all of the “End of Month” documents to print to).

      6. Left-click the “Select All” button, then left-click the “OK” button. 

      7. Left-click the “File” drop-down menu, move the mouse over “Printer Assignment”, left-click “End of Year”. 

      8. In the next window, left-click the drop-down arrow at the end of the “Printer:” field and left-click the appropriate printer from the list. (This is the printer you would like all of the “End of Year” documents to print to).

      9. Left-click the “Select All” button, then left-click the “OK” button. 

      10. The next two printer assignments are slightly different, in that they involve regular and label printers. Left-click the “File” drop-down menu, move the mouse over “Printer Assignment”, and then left-click “General Reports”.

      11. In the next window, left-click the drop-down arrow at the end of the “Printer:” field and left-click the appropriate regular printer from the list. (This is the printer you would like your non-label documents to print to).

      12. Left-click the “Select All” button. Scroll to the documents that will not be printed to a regular printer. Hold down the “Ctrl” key and left-click any documents that will not be printed to a regular printer. (These are usually Pharmacy labels and X-ray labels; occasionally Address labels, Cage Card labels, or Neck Band labels.)

      13. Left-click the drop-down arrow at the end of the “Printer:” field and left-click the appropriate label printer from the list. (Eltron/Zebra and Dymo are the two most popular manufacturers of label printers).

      14. Left-click the appropriate documents, e.g. “Prescription Labels”, that you would like to print to the label printer. Left-click the “OK” button.

      15. Left-click the “File” drop-down menu, move the mouse over “Printer Assignment”, left-click “Correspondence”.

      16. In the next window, left-click the drop-down arrow at the end of the “Printer:” field and left-click the appropriate regular printer from the list. (This is the printer you would like your non-label documents to print to).

      17. Left-click the “Select All” button. Scroll to the documents that will not be printed to a regular printer. Hold down the “Ctrl” key and left-click any documents that will not be printed to a regular printer. (These are usually Pharmacy labels and X-ray labels; occasionally Address labels, Cage Card labels, or Neck Band labels.)

      18. Left-click the drop-down arrow at the end of the “Printer:” field and left-click the appropriate label printer from the list. (Eltron/Zebra and Dymo are the two most popular manufacturers of label printers). 

      19. Left-click the appropriate documents, e.g. “Sample Cage Label”, that you would like to print to a label printer. Left-click the “OK” button. 

      20. If you find that forms, documents, and labels are not printing where you intend them to, check these settings to ensure that they are correct. Holding down the “Ctrl” key allows you to select or deselect individual items. Failing to hold the “Ctrl” key may result in the rest of the listed documents being deselected.