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I want to re-label my surviving video cassette collection. This job has
been hanging around for 9 years and MUST be done! The spine panel on a cassette measures 150mm x 20mm. For economy I want to print in landscape using 2 columns per page. I'll cut out each label and stick them on. The A4 label sheet product I have is pre-cut to 289.1 x 199.6. I had hoped the sheets would be the full A4 size of 297 x 210 (but why should label manufacturers help to simplify a job?) Clearly I must reduce the width of the labels to less than 144.55mm. I don't want to go smaller than 140mm wide label, but either Word 2003 or my printer - an HP deskjet 930c, or both, are causing problems when it comes to setting the side margin sizes of 8.5mm, the absolute maximum permissible to achieve a row of two 140mm labels in A4 landscape. I want to be able to set a maximum margin of about 5mm for both the left margin and right margin. At the moment the left margin can be set and stays at 5mm but the right margin will not accept this setting. It is defaulting repeatedly to 11.7mm (1.17cm), even though I am telling it to "fix" the r/h margin at 0.5cm (or 0.6, 0.8 etc). Does anyone know how I can set the smaller margins I need? Tia Ros |
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Hi,
I'd just about reached that conclusion too. Interestingly, the file prints perfectly on my office printer (and this might be the practical solution), pointing to the HP930C as being the problem. More confusingly, the edge which first emerges on the 930C has a 0.5cm visible margin; it's the trailing edge, which cannot be affected by the need to draw the paper through, which has the missing margin! I've contacted HP's support dept to see if there's a work around. Incidentally my Epson R800 prints beautiful marginless photographs on A4 - not a glimmer of a margin anywhere. But the R800 costs an arm and a leg in ink and is confined strictly to photo output! Ros |
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Incidentally my Epson R800 prints beautiful marginless photographs on A4 - not a glimmer of a margin anywhere. But the R800 costs an arm and a leg in ink and is confined strictly to photo output! snip Ain't it the truth?... On *both* counts! But my R800 does one of the best jobs I've ever seen for just about everything I ask of it. As far as the HP - what happens if you tell it you're printing on Photo paper rather than regular stock? Sometimes you can fake a printer into thinking it's printing a photo in order to get a full bleed. Regards |:) Bob Jones [MVP] Office:Mac On 2/15/07 12:22 AM, in article , "RoS" wrote: Hi, I'd just about reached that conclusion too. Interestingly, the file prints perfectly on my office printer (and this might be the practical solution), pointing to the HP930C as being the problem. More confusingly, the edge which first emerges on the 930C has a 0.5cm visible margin; it's the trailing edge, which cannot be affected by the need to draw the paper through, which has the missing margin! I've contacted HP's support dept to see if there's a work around. Incidentally my Epson R800 prints beautiful marginless photographs on A4 - not a glimmer of a margin anywhere. But the R800 costs an arm and a leg in ink and is confined strictly to photo output! Ros |
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