Apologies if this has been covered elsewhere, or something basic I should know. But I've combed the forums, the help files, as well as doing a general web search, and I cannot find the answer.
The issue: When I print, my documents margins are off. For example, a 3.5 " x 2" business card, all content contained within boundaries. I've tried it as a single card, making a full page (for Avery sheets) with the imposition layout tool, and well as a full repeated page of 10, on a document sized 8.5" x 10". I've adjusted gutters, margins -- basically anything I can find that's editable -- and no matter how it looks in the screen print preview, it prints slighty off, which on a perforated sheet pretty much ruins them all.
In regards to my above example, my left & right margin are 0.75", and my top/bottom margins are 0.50". There is no space between the 2-across/5-up cards. Again, looks fine on my screen preview, but prints 'slightly' to the left. I've gone so far as to adjust my graphics, moving them slighty to the right to compensate -- still fails.
I hope someone has the solution. I'm about to tear out my hair from frustration!! TIA.
PS: I've tried multiple printers, thinking that could be the issue, but the problem was repeatable no matter which printer I used.
Hi,
I'm very sorry for opening this topic after such a long time, but this topic was only thing I could find similar to my problem.
I have a task to print stickers or labels, on a label sheet (52,5x29,7 milimeters - which means 4 colums, and 10 rows - I mesured one label or square and indeed it is 52,5x29,7 milimeters), in corel I found an exact suitable label, identical to sticky labels i have:
but, as you can see bellow:
labels on the left, top, right and down side of printable area are cutted. I can not adjust paper, because those are the only labels i have, and if i resize (make them smaller) the text, bar code, and picture, than i would waste labels, and this is not what i want. Can somebody help me, or is this unfixable problem?
Thank you in advance,
Endy.
p.s. I'm very sorry if my english is not correct, i'm still learning.
Endy_P said:labels on the left, top, right and down side of printable area are cutted
That is a limitation of your printer. Or, you are previewing the output with the wrong printer driver selected
On many desktop printers, you cannot print right to the edge of the page. If you have such a printer, then you cannot print to that particular label sheet and need to look for a different label layout that has a larger outside margin.
Hi Harry,
I think you are right. In Word, I eliminated the margins on every side, and filled entire page with letter A, and it cut-off 4 mm on every side (top, bottom, left, right). So, there is nothing I can do?
I was thinking about adjusting margins on suitable labels that I found in corel, but i'm not sure how that works. Only problem is, how will that effect on a size of a picture on label, but I will try.
Thank you very much.
What is the printer model ? And did word actually manage to print the labels right to the edge of the sheet?
in Word was just small letters A on entire page (from corner to corner, as much as it was possible to fit the page), and still it was cut-off, which proves You were right. That is a limitation of the printer (EPSON AcuLaser C2800N). So I accepted it as a regular thing, and I'm facing another issue. I choose a HERMA Laser 4610-52,5x29 label layout, on which can be printed 40 labels. The problem is, what if i want to print 26 labels, but on that layout, because those dimensions are required from costumer, and the rest of the label paper blank, for the sake of saving color and paper?
Is that even possible?
Thank you in advance.
Endy_P said:EPSON AcuLaser C2800N
Epson is not very helpful. At http://www.epson.co.uk/gb/en/viewcon/corporatesite/products/mainunits/specs/2705 they just say "Paper Formats A4" with no mention of maximum print area, which is not very helpful.
I found http://pricedown.com.vn/item/epson-aculaser-c2800n which says "Maximum print area: Legal (216 x 356 mm)" but I cannot trust that. No laser printer I know of prints right to the edge of the page and 216 x 356mm is the size of legal.
I had to download the manual and can see 4mm mentioned for the margin. If that is correct, then the maximum printable area on an A4 page is 202mm x 289mm.
Endy_P said:what if i want to print 26 labels
That should be possible. You would have to create a 26-up label imposition that corresponds to the labels that you intend to use. But it seems to me that if your layout is 4 wide and 10 up but you cannot print to any of the outside labels, then you have only 16 fully-printable labels.
Anyway, choose an A4 page and then go to tools > options > document > label and change the option on the right to labels.
Choose any A4 label sheet as the basis. Your 4610 is probably good to start. Then use the customise label button to change the details.
Set the label size, ignore the detailed margins and select auto margins, keep gutters and auto space gutters off. Reduce the number of rows and columns as needed. Give the layout a new name and you should be ready to go.
thank you for the help, I also searched the printable area for Epson, but i haven't found much. No matter what i do, he still cuts off the edges, although i tried several things from the manual. That means that information about 216x356mm is not correct.
From the manual:
I've tried, and that is so not true. It's even worse than it was.
I'm so embarrassed now, I could have seen it if I was looking a bit better. You are right, I can adjust number of columns and rows and get the number of labels I need.
OFF TOPIC:
Can you recomend me some good book or tutorial about CDX6, in library are several different books and I'm not sure which one I should take?
Thank you in advance and have a nice day.
The tutorial I used was a VHS video from version 2, so I can't really help you much with that. But probably one of the newer users can recommend one.
thank you for the advice and for your help.
Wish you all the best and take care.
Greetings from Croatia.
Ines
I found the easiest and perfect solution for printing whatever number of different labels on one page, so i decided to post it here if anyone ever needs such a help. When I'm in a label layout (in my case 52,5 x 29,7), I have to go to layout, then insert page (which is related with the maximum number of labels on one page, or less), insert the number of pages I need, and I can edit every label on every page separately, and put, for example 4 labels in yellow, 11 labels in blue, 19 labels in pink, and 6 labels in a red color (in my case, number of a slipper). Although it is 40 pages in a document, they all printed on one sheet of label paper.
Thank you once again.
Greetings from Croatia,
Ines.