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How to Print Your Map

This guide explains how to print your Proxi map. It also includes how to edit the print settings in Proxi.

Written by Melinda Haughey

This article is about the Proxi admin app at app.proxi.co.

Paper handouts still matter — event programs, walking-tour flyers, vendor maps.

How to Print a Map

  • Click Print & Export in the map editor's upper right top bar to open the print designer (available on paid plans).

    • You'll see a live preview with settings alongside.

Pick a Template and Page Size

  • Templates — Map + list, Map only, or List only.

  • Adjust the Print Map Size — Letter, Legal, Tabloid, A4, and more, down to Postcard (4×6) and Business Card — or enter custom dimensions. Portrait or landscape.

  • Adjust the Orientation of the page — portrait or landscape

  • Font page settings:

    • Padding: top, right, bottom, left

    • Filter places

Edit the Map Page Before Printing

  • Show header — your map title on the printout.

  • Show QR code — prints a scannable code linking to the live map, with a placement picker and size slider. Highly recommended: paper for orientation, phone for details.

    • Change the QR code location

    • Slide the bar to QR size

  • Show names and Spread clusters — make dense areas readable in print.

  • Recenter — reframe the printed view without touching your live map.

  • Change the location of the legend

Create an Inset map

  • Add a small zoomed-in box for a crowded downtown block, and draw exactly the region it should show.

  • Change the location of the inset map, its height, width, border color, and draw the inset region.

Customize the List of Places Page

The list page is your printed itinerary or directory. You can set:

  • Sort order — by point number, name, category, start time, or date added.

  • Group by — category, first letter, tag, or any of your fields, with plain or color-block group headers.

  • Fields — enable, drag to reorder what shows for each place, and rename labels just for print, and hide what you don't need.

  • Columns and Text scale — fit more places per page or make it large-print friendly.

Printing Just Some Places

  • Use Filter places to print a subset — just Saturday's events, just one neighborhood — using the same filters visitors see on the live map.

Export & Print

  • The Export menu offers Print… (straight to your printer), Download PDF, and Download PNG.

If you need assistance designing a custom print map, contact the Proxi team at [email protected]. We'll help you design your project!

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