Printing paper books

If your institution uses paper books, you can print these in several ways:

1. Printing an entire book: Under Reports > Generate Prep Books, you can generate a PDF of an entire book at once. This is likely most useful when you are just getting started. I also find the Animal Area versions of these books (as PDFs) useful when meeting with animal care staff to discuss diets. This way you can quickly page through all the diets in their area. There are multiple diet card formats. You can select which ones get used for individual and group diets on the Settings screen. The books will sort diets in the order you have established for Delivery Containers.
2. Printing just one page: Under Edit Diets > Print (or Save) you can print one diet card at a time. There are many options you can read about in the Reports section, but the key differences are:
   1. Diet cards - these include all foods on a given diet on a single sheet (it may run to two pages for longer diets)
   2. Prep cards - these include multiple pages, one for each prep location. So, if a diet has both meat (prepped at your meat station) and veggies (prepped at your veggie station), the PDF will have two pages - one with just the meat items to put in the "meat book", and the other with just the veggie items to put in the "veggie book".
   3. Feed cards - these show the dates the food should be FED on. While this may be the same as the Prep schedule, in some cases food is prepped on a different schedule than it is fed. Examples might be thawing rodents a few days in advance, or sending pellets once a week, even though the animal is fed pellets daily. If no specific feed schedule is set up, then the Prep schedule is assumed to be the feed schedule