Medicare PC1

Medicare PC1 data is printed on preprinted stationery, supplied by Medicare Australia.

This can be printed on any standard ink jet or laser printer. If you have a multi-tray printer, you will have to configure Pracsoft to print to the correct tray. Otherwise printing will be sent to the default tray in your printer (and this may not be where you stack your pre-printed paper).

  1. To configure the printing of Medicare PC1 forms, click

    This opens the Printer Setup window.
  2. Click

    to select the printer you want to print to.
  3. When you return to the Printer Setup Window, notice that the lower half of the window contains extra configuration fields (as indicated below). These settings allow you to change the way data is printed on the pre-printed form (should you need to align the printed text). Notice also that there is a Form field for selecting which particular PC1 form you are currently using. This is because there have been several incarnations of the supplied PC1 form, each slightly different than the last. You may have to make adjustments to your printout, depending on which instance of the PC1 you're currently using.
  4. You can test and further edit these print settings in the same way as explained above for DB4 printing.
  5. When you are satisfied with the settings, click Save to confirm. Note that you may be prompted to set the paper orientation to 'landscape'. This is necessary for printing PC1 forms. Click OK on the prompt.
This will instruct Pracsoft to print all future PC1 forms with 'landscape' orientation. Note that this will not affect the default Windows Printer settings for the printer in question.