Fw: [Dx4win] death to labels

[Mike Rhodes]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Rhodes" <weightdn@bright.net>
To: "Pete Smith" <n4zr@contesting.com>
Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2002 6:16 PM
Subject: Re: [Dx4win] death to labels


> This is pretty much the same thing I do too. Get the cards printed locally
> and then have them  cut after they are filled out. Don't try to use the
> standard lever type paper cutter - it will cut them crooked every time. I
> have considered building a wooden holder with preset stops and a metal
guide
> for a utility knife so I could easily do smaller quantities at home but
that
> has not happened yet.
>
> To get your report to print in the right spot, just do dry runs of a sheet
> using regular paper and overlay it on one of your QSL blanks. Just keep
> tweaking it until it is where you want it then fire for effect using the
> real thing.
>
> Beware of the dreaded 'only one page in landscape' glitch in 5.03. It will
> print the first page in landscape and then switch back to portrait. Also,
> you cannot switch off the default printer from within DX4Win 5.03. You
have
> to close it down and make the printer you intend to use the default. Then
> fire up DX4Win and print away. BTW, I have used an Epson 860, 880, and NEC
> SuperScript 870 and the landscape to portrait glitch exists in all cases
> (but not in 5.02).
>
> Mike / W8DN
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Pete Smith" <n4zr@contesting.com>
> To: <dx4win@mailman.qth.net>
> Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2002 11:48 AM
> Subject: Re: [Dx4win] death to labels
>
>
> > 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
> >
> > Sometimes a tower is
> > just a tower
> >
> >
> >
> >
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