[Dx4win] death to labels

[Pete Smith]

Here's what I do (warning -- this does not work with some printer drivers
-- check the archive!  Symptom is a failure to remain in landscape format
after the first sheet):

I get QSLs printed by a local printer, 5 1/2 x 3 1/4, 4 to a page,
landscape format on 8 1/2 x 11 67 lb vellum.  I leave a 1" gap in the QSL
card for the QSO data.  I don't have him cut them initially.  Cost,
including cutting, is about $90 for 4000 QSLs at a time. 

I then feed them into my Deskjet 840C (also works on 700 series), set to
print landscape format.

My DX4WIN label parameters are as follows:

Width and height = the width and height of the area in which "labels" are
to be printed.  I use 3" x .875".  This where your QSO data will wind up.

Horizontal pitch sets the horizontal distance from the left edge of the
first "label" to the left edge of the second "label."  This equals the
width of your finished cards, so I use 5.5".

Vertical pitch sets the vertical distance from the top edge of the first
label to the top edge of the second "label", which equals the height of
your finished cards, so I use 3.5"

Spacing left is the distance from the edge of the paper to the edge of the
"label." I use 3.5 inches.  Spacing top is the distance from the top of the
paper to the top of the first label.  I use 1.995 inches, but as I recall I
had to tweak this last time to fit my sheets, which the printer had
slightly mis-aligned.

Horizontal shift and vertical shift are both 0."  Be sure to specify number
across and number down as 2 each, max QSOs as zero and uncheck the
"portrait" check box.

The preview function in the label database is very convenient for tweaking
your definition to get it just right.  Of course, printing on plain paper
that you can lay over your QSL blanks is the final acid test. 

After I've printed my batch of cards I take them back to the printer and
have him cut them while retaining the prefix order.  Then it is a
relatively simple matter to restack them into a box for the outgoing
bureau. 

73, Pete N4ZR

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