My wife is trying to print som epostcards she has created as invitations foir a family reunion. She has 5.5″ x 4.25″ cardstock to be printed two sides, photo one and text on reverse.
She is trying to do this with Word. The photo file in Irfanview is the right size in inches, yet when she inserts to the formated print page, it will refuse to fill the square it is supposed to go in.
I have no idea how to use that program for labels and such. So she is beating me up here. I am all black and blue.
Anybody got a clue?
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Look for a "format image" command in Word. It may be necessary to set the size in Word, not just in Irfan.
I just tried it: first, go to File menu, Page Setup, and type in 5.5" wide, 4.25" wide in the "Paper" tab boxes. That sets up the paper size. If you want 2 columns, like a post card where the address is on the right, and there is space to write on the left, you can go to the Format menu, Columns choice, then choose 2 column layout. You can even have a line between the columns by checking a box on the same screen. Fill in whatever you want on the page, then insert a page break so you can move to the back.
For the back, where the picture is, turn off the columns if you used them by selecting one column layout, then insert the picture and size appropriately. You probably can't go all the way to the edges like a real post card, since the printer usually needs some minimum margin size.
When you print, the card stock may be too stiff to load in the normal tray. Mine is an HP, so paper goes in face down in front, and gets curled around before going under the print head and ending up face up. A lot of printers have a slot in the back to allow you to insert the paper face up from the back of the printer so stiff paper goes straight thru. Sometimes you have to remove a thingy (the thing that curls the paper) in back to access the rear paper opening.
First you need to figure out if you are using 1 up, 2 Up, or 4 Up stock.
Most likely if you look under labels there will be a listing for that type of stock. You migth need to get the number for the matching AVery product.
And Avery offers a number of predefined templates that you can use as a starting point. See what options that they uses and then adjust as needed.
http://tinyurl.com/2qtkrk
Here are others.
http://www.hp.com/sbso/productivity/office/direct_marketing.html
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/word/HA011739271033.aspx
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/templates/CT101449571033.aspx
http://www.office.xerox.com/small-business/resources/postcards-home/enus.html
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A-holes. Hey every group has to have one. And I have been elected to be the one. I should make that my tagline.
Possibly the margins (in Page Setup) are not close enough to the edge of the page?
That is the way it was behaving to my thinking, but I tried to eliminate or reduce margins and it still happened, like there was some default over riding me. I am going to look at some tmplates later. Right now my mind is about fried from beating my head against this thing for her.
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BTW, wanted to mention. While experiment print it out on plain paper and then hold it up to the light against the postcard stock to see how it fits..
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A-holes. Hey every group has to have one. And I have been elected to be the one. I should make that my tagline.
My wife Pam "legal secretary extraordinaire" says........
Right click on the image........
Choose >Format Picture........Select >size .....change dimensions
and then click OK.........
Could you ask Pam in what program she is doing this?
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WORDEditted/Added:After fussing with the image in Irfanview.....Save the image to a file/folder......In Word.....Insert the image from the folder into the doc.....any size.....then go back and right click on the image.....Select>Format picture....Select>Size....change dimension....Hit OK
Edited 5/20/2007 5:34 pm ET by abnorm
Doesn't happen. On her machine or mine.But I found a way around all this.Sharing for others....I went to
Tools
Envelopes and labels
options
new label
and that gave me a template formatting tool to creat my own template with sizes for all.Thanks everyone. I still don't know what exactly is over riding in the default pachage, but I think we have it now.
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In the future, go to quantummail.com, they print jumbo two sided postcards on 100# stock for $.44, delivered the next day.Smaller postcards, even less.
Nice resource!