Pre-printed membership card forms

[acepayne]

Good Morning,

I am having a heck of a time trying to get a report to line up properly!

The report is to print out a large number of membership cards, on to pre-printed card stock. There are 3 cards on each page, with no margins at the top, bottom, or side of the pre-printed form.

The cards are separated by perforations, and are all 3.5" high. Are you anticipating the problem yet?

Well, here it is, and I have a feeling it is somewhat common, although I haven't found any simple solutions so far. Leads me to believe there might not be one! Anyway, any printer has a minimum margin size (laser printer, anyway), so I am unable to get the output positioned exactly right on all 3 cards on the pre-printed form. One is too 'high', one is too 'low', and one is just right.

I've fussed around with this for way too much time now. If anybody can help with this, please let me know!

Oh, I should mention that new pre-printed forms have been ordered (that include margins on the top and bottom), but we would still like to use the thousands we still have on hand if possible!

Thanks a lot,
Gord

 

[saharlan]

Possible Solution

When Creating your report have you tried using the label wizard?

Under Reports, Select New, Label Wizard, Customize,
In the new label size menu select NEW,
then you can control how many across and margins and height.

Hope this helps....

 

[acepayne]

Yes, tried label wizard

Hi,

Yes, I tried the label wizard as well. The problem lies in the fact that the printer driver has a minimum top margin, basically. Even if I set the margin to 0", the printer driver will ignore this, and place the minimum margin there, which screws up the alignment for the membership cards.

The pre-printed membership cards we have include no margins at all. If you check out any Avery label product, for example, you will see that they always have a margin at the top and bottom.

If I can find a way to print with a 0' margin at the top (override the printer setting somehow?????), I think I'd be home free.

How to do this? If anybody knows, please share!!

Thanks for the help,
Gord

 

[aranj]

If anyone does know how to override, please tell us. I have a very similar problem, albeit with a mimimum bottom margin of 4 mm (I need zero). It's not that I'm printing in that area, but I'm printing cheques (checks) 3 to an A4 sheet) and the third one insists on going to another page. I can't change the height of the report as it is perfect to the millimetre, and cheques 1 and 2 are totally perfect.

 

[aranj]

PS, this is not the "name auto-correct" bug as it does remember margin settings, just will not go as low as zero.

 

[Rich]

Does your printer support 0 margins?

 

[aranj]

No it doesn't. I realise that this is the problem, so I'd like the report to override it.

 

[Rich]

I can't see how you can override the printer.
If your printer supports custom page sizes then you could just try making the page slightly longer