[Dx4win] QSL Labels and Avery 8160 Labels

Sun, 05 Jan 2003 00:10:48 -0500

Jeff,

I'm not familiar with your printer driver, but is there an option by chance that is called something like; 'fit to page' or 'scale to fit page' ?

If so , switch it off!

Paul

At 11:25 PM 1/4/03 -0500, Jeff Maass wrote:

>Roger:
>
>This didn't help my problem - it just moved the first label down further,
>where what needs to happen is move it up. The custom label
>configuration won't accept a negative "spacing top" value.
>
>The spacing between labels also was still wrong. Worth a
>try, though!
>
> Jeff Maass       [email protected]     Located near Columbus Ohio
>         USPSA # L-1192       NROI/CRO    Amateur Radio K8ND
>Maass' IPSC Resources:  http://home.columbus.rr.com/jmaass/index.html
>Circleville USPSA/IPSC: http://home.columbus.rr.com/jmaass/pcsiipsc.htm
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Roger Huntley [mailto:[email protected]]
>> Sent: Saturday, January 04, 2003 21:16
>> To: Jeff Maass; DX4WIN Mailing List
>> Subject: RE: [Dx4win] QSL Labels and Avery 8160 Labels
>>
>>
>> Jeff,
>> I also use Avery 8160 and found that I had to modify the settings.  Under
>> the custom label setting I set the "spacing left" to 0.2, "spacing top" to
>> 0.65, "horizontal shift" to 0.1 and the "vertical shift" to 0.1.
>> I am using
>> Arial font.  Without the shifting I was getting the printing cut
>> off on the
>> left side and top of the labels in the third row.  I am also new to using
>> the program and there may be other ways to adjust the printing but this
>> seems to work for me.
>>
>> I only use two QSO's per label and I would think you could probably adjust
>> the offsets to get three QSO's per label.
>> Hope this helps.
>>
>> 73,
>> Roger, W7VV / ZK1VVV
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: [email protected]
>> [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of Jeff Maass
>> Sent: Saturday, January 04, 2003 5:27 PM
>> To: DX4WIN Mailing List
>> Subject: [Dx4win] QSL Labels and Avery 8160 Labels
>>
>>
>>
>> After getting all my recent PJ2/K8ND 160m QSOs imported to
>> DX4WIN, I'm printing QSL info labels for the first time. I am
>> using DX4WIN with a HP Deskjet 990Cse printer and Avery
>> 8160 labels.
>>
>> I'm having a problem that doesn't seem specifically related to
>> DX4WIN, but to something else in setting up for these labels.
>> Perhaps someone can share similar experiences and
>> solutions?
>>
>> From Word (Office 2000) or DX4WIN, the labels do not align
>> with the labels on the sheet. The first is off (too far down by 1/4-inch
>> or so), but they *all* seem  spaced incorrectly relative to each
>> other, as if the 8160 template were wrong in both Word 2000
>> *and* DX4WIN (I know - unlikely). Even if the first label were
>> aligned correctly, each subsequent rows would "walk" down,
>> with each label starting lower in the label space.
>>
>> There could be some misconfiguration of the printer, but I
>> would think that this should be handled by the printer driver
>> based on the template rather than requiring any kind of
>> manual setup?
>>
>> Any ideas?
>>
>>
>>  Jeff Maass       [email protected]     Located near Columbus Ohio
>>          USPSA # L-1192       NROI/CRO    Amateur Radio K8ND
>> Maass' IPSC Resources:  http://home.columbus.rr.com/jmaass/index.html
>> Circleville USPSA/IPSC: http://home.columbus.rr.com/jmaass/pcsiipsc.htm
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