Printing/Converting An Envelope

[davec]

Hello,

I have an envelope (#10), with its return address, saved as a .doc
file (Word 2004). Double clicking the file icon produces the image as
it should be.

However, when I click "print" the Print window shows the envelope has
been flipped vertically from its former normal horizontal. What now is
the top of the envelope (containing the return addresss), however, has
not made the flipped transition; the text remains horizontal and even
so only a small portion of the address appears.

Trying to monkey with "Page Setup" of the printer to flip the
orientation leaves no good effects.

All I'm trying to do is to get the correct envelope image into the
Word print window where I can convert it to PDF. Have I found another
glitch in MS Word?


Dave

 

[Elliott Roper]

Hello,

I have an envelope (#10), with its return address, saved as a .doc
file (Word 2004). Double clicking the file icon produces the image as
it should be.

However, when I click "print" the Print window shows the envelope has
been flipped vertically from its former normal horizontal. What now is
the top of the envelope (containing the return addresss), however, has
not made the flipped transition; the text remains horizontal and even
so only a small portion of the address appears.

Trying to monkey with "Page Setup" of the printer to flip the
orientation leaves no good effects.

All I'm trying to do is to get the correct envelope image into the
Word print window where I can convert it to PDF. Have I found another
glitch in MS Word?

You may have, but I'd give shorter odds on your printer driver.

 

[davec]

I wish that was so. I replaced the driver. The same symptoms appear.


Dave

 

[Elliott Roper]

I wish that was so. I replaced the driver. The same symptoms appear.

Could you describe the rotation you observed more precisely? A "flip"
means mirror writing would be output, at least to me. If the image were
flipped about an axis parallel to the long edge of the envelope it
would appear upside down in mirror writing would it not?

Could you describe your printer. Make, model, driver version, any
optional envelope feeder attachment or tray?
How does it feed envelopes. Long edge or short edge into the machine?
I'll assume the envelope is landscape oriented. i.e The address is
parallel to the long edge. Where is the return address supposed to be?
top left, bottom left, all along the bottom?
Did you choose landscape or portrait in the page setup?
What happens when you print to PDF and then print the result to full
size paper?
Did I understand you to say the return address was rotated differently
to the main address? If so, how? Please use words like "clockwise 90º,
relative to the envelope about an axis normal to the top face of the
envelope through its center"
Give us some hint about which part of the address failed to appear.

This stuff is quite hard to offer advice for. Hopefully someone with
the same model of printer as you have will be able to help.

 

[Elliott Roper]

Could you describe your printer. Make, model, driver version, any
optional envelope feeder attachment or tray?
How does it feed envelopes. Long edge or short edge into the machine?
I'll assume the envelope is landscape oriented. i.e The address is
parallel to the long edge. Where is the return address supposed to be?
top left, bottom left, all along the bottom?
Did you choose landscape or portrait in the page setup?
What happens when you print to PDF and then print the result to full
size paper?
Did I understand you to say the return address was rotated differently
to the main address? If so, how? Please use words like "clockwise 90º,
relative to the envelope about an axis normal to the top face of the
envelope through its center"
Give us some hint about which part of the address failed to appear.

This stuff is quite hard to offer advice for. Hopefully someone with
the same model of printer as you have will be able to help.

A bit of an update and request for more help.
Dave cunningly worked out how to send me some pictures.
In print preview, the envelope is standing short edge up, but the text
peeps shyly out as though it would all be there if only the envelope
outline were long edge up.
His envelope prints OK on my LN17 with an envelope feeder. Its print
preview shows outline and text long edge up, even though the physical
printer eats it short edge first from the feeder. Mine was OK in both
portrait and landscape page set-up, even if the portrait set-up would
have freaked the post office sorters.

I suggested he should try harder for the latest driver for his Epson
CX4200. So..o, while he's off doing that, is there anything else I have
missed?