K
Kakawin
I'm pulling my hair out trying to print some business cards.
My stock is 10 cards to a sheet and each card is precisely 3.5" wide by 2"
high each. There is no center margin, just the perforation down the middle.
The side margins are .5" each.
I made my card exactly according to the measurements above and set up the
page thusly;
Top margin .5"
left margin .75
Center 0"
The left and center are bang on when they print but the top margin has never
been anywhere but out to lunch no matter what I do. First the top row started
printing at the very top edge of the sheet regardless of what the set up
said. I tried spoofing the thing and setting the top margin for 1" and that
got it down from the top of the sheet but it still insisted on starting above
the perforation (any lower than an 1" and the bottom row would drop off the
sheet). It only gets worse because each successive row also starts above
where it's supposed to so that by the time you get to the bottom the last row
is .75" above the edge of the bottom row.
I've tried making the card a smidge smaller and I've tried a variety of
templates. Nothing works and to add insult to injury I've just about wasted
all my stock and Publisher seems to make my printer choke and my system slow
to a crawl.
I'm using a trial version of Office 2007 but it could also be my computer,
which at 1.5 years old is probably to small for MS bloatware. Thank god I'm
not using Vista.
To be perfectly honest I'm seriously thinking of just land filling the whole
kit and kaboodle and switching to a Mac.
My stock is 10 cards to a sheet and each card is precisely 3.5" wide by 2"
high each. There is no center margin, just the perforation down the middle.
The side margins are .5" each.
I made my card exactly according to the measurements above and set up the
page thusly;
Top margin .5"
left margin .75
Center 0"
The left and center are bang on when they print but the top margin has never
been anywhere but out to lunch no matter what I do. First the top row started
printing at the very top edge of the sheet regardless of what the set up
said. I tried spoofing the thing and setting the top margin for 1" and that
got it down from the top of the sheet but it still insisted on starting above
the perforation (any lower than an 1" and the bottom row would drop off the
sheet). It only gets worse because each successive row also starts above
where it's supposed to so that by the time you get to the bottom the last row
is .75" above the edge of the bottom row.
I've tried making the card a smidge smaller and I've tried a variety of
templates. Nothing works and to add insult to injury I've just about wasted
all my stock and Publisher seems to make my printer choke and my system slow
to a crawl.
I'm using a trial version of Office 2007 but it could also be my computer,
which at 1.5 years old is probably to small for MS bloatware. Thank god I'm
not using Vista.
To be perfectly honest I'm seriously thinking of just land filling the whole
kit and kaboodle and switching to a Mac.