[Dx4win] QSL Labels and Avery 8160 Labels
Jeff Maass
[email protected]
Sun, 5 Jan 2003 00:12:37 -0500
Paul:
There is such an option, it's off.
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: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of Paul van der Eijk
> Sent: Sunday, January 05, 2003 00:11
> To: Jeff Maass; Roger Huntley; DX4WIN Mailing List
> Subject: RE: [Dx4win] QSL Labels and Avery 8160 Labels
>
>
> 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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