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I usually try to print on a seperate piece of cardstock and then cut it out to adhere to the cardfront. The best way to position it if you want it to print directly on the card is use text boxes. You can measure on the card where you might like it to be and then right click on the text box to use the menu to position it exactly. I would print on copy paper until you have it just right. Good luck.
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I have printed sentiments directly onto cardstock or vellum via computer, and then decorated the card. I have also printed out a page of the same ( or multiple) sentiment(s), then cut the sentiment out and layered it with matching cardstock. I haven't done it with color print b/c our b&w laser printer does a great job, and black print is usually just fine for me!
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As for lining up to print sentiments on cards (either front or inside ), here's a blurb I posted in another thread: If you go to www.avery.com, there are blank templates you can download for labels that will automatically set up your Word doc into 4 postcards. There are 2 templates available, one landscape and one portrait, and here is the link to the download page: http://www.avery.com/us/Main?action=software.BlankTPLProductSearch&catalog code=WEB01&productcode=8387 Each "postcard" is the size of a 1/4 sheet of cardstock, so you have your lines drawn and margins set, then just cut the cs to size after printing!
If you want to print on the front and inside, you have to run your paper thru the printer twice, because you print the front, then turn your paper over run it thru again to do the inside. And unless you are really good, you'll have to play with it on a piece of typing paper to see how things have to be turned and run thru the printer--but believe me, it can be done!!!:smile: HTH!
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That is way easier than I have been doing it! I am going to go and get those templates right now! I think though if you have the cards already cut you will have to tape them to a piece of paper in place so that you can print right on the card in the right place. Is that right?
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I plan ahead (hah!) and just print 2 cards at a time so I can run a whole sheet of cs through the printer and not have to worry about trying to tape stuff together and hope it doesn't come apart in my printer and so on. If I don't have to make 2 cards, I just do the one on the top of the sheet of cs and save the bottom half for a non-computer printed card...
I'm looking for some advice on printing directly onto card blanks - for example to print sentiments directly to the card front.
Does anyone have any tips on positioning etc?
I do the cards in Microsoft Word. I go to Print Set up. Put in the size of the cardstock ex. (4.5 x You have to click on either Landscape or Portrait (whichever direction you are making your card) You can then line up your verse or whatever you wish. You also have to indicate left, right or center. Go to Print preview and it will show you what you have. Good luck! Any questions: e-mail me and I will try to help. [email protected]
I do the cards in Microsoft Word. I go to Print Set up. Put in the size of the cardstock ex. (4.5 x You have to click on either Landscape or Portrait (whichever direction you are making your card) You can then line up your verse or whatever you wish. You also have to indicate left, right or center. Go to Print preview and it will show you what you have. Good luck! Any questions: e-mail me and I will try to help. [email protected]
This is how I do it also. And I always do a test on a 1/2 sheet of regular copy paper before I copy onto my cardstock, just in case some final positioning adjustments need to be made.
I do the cards in Microsoft Word. I go to Print Set up. Put in the size of the cardstock ex. (4.5 x You have to click on either Landscape or Portrait (whichever direction you are making your card) You can then line up your verse or whatever you wish. You also have to indicate left, right or center. Go to Print preview and it will show you what you have. Good luck! Any questions: e-mail me and I will try to help. [email protected]
I used to try it this way and was having problems getttings things right where I wanted them, then I discovered the Avery template. It opens as a Word document, and once open, the centering is really east, since the paper is divided into quarters...you don't even have to measure or mark when cutting!
One other quick note: If you use the Avery template, be sure to rename the document before you save or you will replace your blank template. **Ask me how I know!***;)
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I love to print individual greetings inside my cards. I will use MS Publisher, create a print box the size of my card, and then write in whatever I want. Print, cut to size, and adhere inside my card. If I am using a designer paper, or vellum, I will print it off on regular copy paper, and then stick the DP over the printing on the copy paper with re-positionable tape runner, and put it through the printer again. That works really well, since you can cut your DP ahead of time and not waste any. If the DP is kinda thick, you can line up the printing by looking through the paper with a bright light behind, or in a window pane. So many things to do when you don't have exactly the right stamp to play with.
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This is so easy and it saves you from buying so many sentiment stamps. You can manipulate the margins of your wordprocessing program to have rt or left alignment. Put the paper in and print in color whatever sentiment you want. I like to print the sentiment on the left side of the card and put a cut-out on the right side. Printing the sentiment yourself allows you to really personalize the greeting.
Printing directly onto card blanks
