colour background

[LIZ]

I am trying to put a pale colour background under the text and images on the
front page of a newsletter but it won't print to the very edge of the A4
paper. any suggestions?

 

[Mary Sauer]

This is a limitation of your printer. If your printer doesn't have a full bleed then
it will not print to the edge. Look at your documentation to determine your default
margins.
Try a pale coloured paper.

 

[Karel Van der peijl]

Maybe this will help:

Open any photoprogramm and make a new picture at the size you need.
Warning: If it is NOT the good size, it wont work later ( or could) make
problems in the PDF settings ( if you are using that to distiller).
22 x 30.3 in centimeters at 300 DPI is what I have as standard A4.
Make the color you want and safe as jpeg, comprress to several levels. In
this case level 3 will do.
Save also as Tiff as backup, because you can open that any time without
loosing information of the picture.
In publisher, go to Format / background
it opens the regular color system.
Klick MORE BACKGROUNDS, and after that opens, select PICTURE.
Insert from the harddisk that picture ( the JPG in this case, not the tiff)
You can now select either if you want this for only one page or all.
Hope this is what you are looking for.
If it is, you can make any time the same picture as background or make even
your own layout as a background ( compilation).
If you have problems later, it only will while printing.
Therefore THIS size is tested by me. Bigger will give problems.
If there is any, then at the printer settings try A3 and distill to PDF
first.
It shows the page precies, only with the white paper around it.
that is not a problem for commercial printers at all.
Or.....make a new size A4 in the PRINTER settings and add space extra, than
the same result shows as at the A3,

Regards,
Karel

 

[LIZ]

Thanks to both of you - I'll try your solutions.

Maybe this will help:

Open any photoprogramm and make a new picture at the size you need.
Warning: If it is NOT the good size, it wont work later ( or could) make
problems in the PDF settings ( if you are using that to distiller).
22 x 30.3 in centimeters at 300 DPI is what I have as standard A4.
Make the color you want and safe as jpeg, comprress to several levels. In
this case level 3 will do.
Save also as Tiff as backup, because you can open that any time without
loosing information of the picture.
In publisher, go to Format / background
it opens the regular color system.
Klick MORE BACKGROUNDS, and after that opens, select PICTURE.
Insert from the harddisk that picture ( the JPG in this case, not the tiff)
You can now select either if you want this for only one page or all.
Hope this is what you are looking for.
If it is, you can make any time the same picture as background or make even
your own layout as a background ( compilation).
If you have problems later, it only will while printing.
Therefore THIS size is tested by me. Bigger will give problems.
If there is any, then at the printer settings try A3 and distill to PDF
first.
It shows the page precies, only with the white paper around it.
that is not a problem for commercial printers at all.
Or.....make a new size A4 in the PRINTER settings and add space extra, than
the same result shows as at the A3,

Regards,
Karel

 

[Mac Townsend]

it won't print to the very edge because your printer won't allow it to.

there is a "dead" zone all around the page that cannot be printed to.

the only solution is to use larger paper if your machine supports it.
Then trim after printing (this is how it is done in the "real" world of
printing presses and stuff)