Within the last year Westlaw added another printing option to their system; you now can choose between:

- "Quick Print" the icon is second from the left with red on the printer image, or
- "Print" the next icon to the right, all in black and white.

Your choice determines the destination of your print job.

If you select Quick Print, a box pops up asking you to select a printer. You will notice all the selections relate to your default setting of the attached network printer; you won't see the Westlaw printers that print your job for free. If you send the print job this way, it will go to the SmartPrint printers; you would then have to release the job - and pay - to have it printed.

However, if you select the plain Print icon one over to the right, your job will go to the Westlaw printers in the room just down the hall. After a short wait - as it works through Westlaw's immense network - your free print job will appear.

What if you mistakenly sent it using Quick Print?

- If you don't release the job from the SmartPrinter, you don't have to pay for it and it will be cleared from the system within a few hours - no harm, no foul.

- Once it's gone to the SmartPrint system the folks at Westlaw CANNOT redirect the print job.

- However, you can resend the print job by logging back onto Westlaw, opening the Research Trail, and resending the documents to the free, Print option Westlaw printers.