# duplicateMovieClip

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/duplicatemovieclip/187024
**Category:** Uncategorized
**Created:** [April 26, 2006, 3:52am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/duplicatemovieclip/187024 "2006-04-26T03:52:44Z")
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### Author: ![grinfax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ee59a6/32.png) [@grinfax](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/grinfax)
#### Post date: [April 26, 2006, 3:52am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/duplicatemovieclip/187024/1 "2006-04-26T03:52:44Z")

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I am using duplicateMovieClip to layout a random design on the stage. After I am done I want to print out the design. I read the manual for the print(); function but for it to work it requires all the clips to be within another movieclip. How do I duplicateMovieClip into another movieclip?

This is my code:

for(i=0;i\<total;i++){  
duplicateMovieClip(box, “box”+i, i);  
}

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### Author: ![Mirandir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a5b964/32.png) [@Mirandir](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Mirandir)
#### Post date: [April 26, 2006, 7:28am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/duplicatemovieclip/187024/2 "2006-04-26T07:28:42Z")

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You cannot duplicate a movieclip onto another timeline. So either put the original into the movieclip to be printed or use attachMovie() instead.

/Mirandir

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### Author: ![TheCanadian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/67e7ee/32.png) [@TheCanadian](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/TheCanadian)
#### Post date: [April 26, 2006, 7:31am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/duplicatemovieclip/187024/3 "2006-04-26T07:31:09Z")

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You can print a frame using the _print_ function - never the less you might want to look into the _PrintJob_ class 🙂