Yes, I would expect it to feed the small sizes short edge first. From the
fact that it feeds 8.5x11 sideways, I assume it must be an 11x17 printer?
Otherwise, it would feed Letter paper portrait, same as Legal (my LJ 4100
does).

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"LurfysMa" wrote in message
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On Fri, 6 Jan 2006 22:33:48 -0600, "Suzanne S. Barnhill"
wrote:

You have basically two ways to approach this:

1. If you will be using the 5x8 size frequently, define it as a custom
paper
size in the printer driver. I can't tell you specifically how to do this,
but it should be possible with your printer (it is with the LJ 4100). You
have a limited number of user-defined sizes, although I think you can
perhaps delete some of the built-in ones that you'll never use and
substitute others. If you do this, then you can feed the card in the
center,
using the paper guides flush against the sides, and it will print
correctly.

2. Pretend that the card is a sheet of Letter (or Legal) paper and set it
up
in the middle of a sheet that size, adjusting the margins as required.
Then
feed it from the center and let the printer print the relevant portion of
what it thinks is a full sheet of paper.

Thanks, Suzanne. Option #1 works, once I figured out how to do it.
It's kinda obscure. For the LJ 5000, you go to Properties from the
Print panel, then select the Paper tab, then click on the Custom
button.

I defined 5-6 new sizes and it never complained. They all worked just
as you said. It does do a little rearranging. If you define it as 8x5,
rather than 5x8, it will swap them. It feeds all fo the custom sizes I
tried with the short edge first unless I got close to one of the
standard sizes (eg, 8.5 x 11), then if fed it that way.

Thanks for the spot-on solution.

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