[Dx4win] Printing on the back of cards

Sat, 11 Jan 2003 11:47:57 -0500

Good Morning Everyone,
I have gotten a few emails on how I get my QSLs to print on the back of my
QSL cards and what kind of printer do I use, and a host of other questions.
Hopefully I will answer all of you questions.  Just as an update, there is a
few of us in the area that are doing the same thing.
To keep it simple, I hope....here we go:
First I went to the printing properties of my printer. I created a paper
size of 3.25x5.29" and call it "QSL Cards". This will define my QSL Card
Stock.  Our local club gets cards printed up (Basically a standard QSL
Card). The last time, I had 10,000 cards printed up. Hopefully we do not
move too soon  :-)
I then select this paper type in the printer as my current default. The main
reason I do this is to make sure that it is what I want for printing.  For
FYI... I prefer a inexpensive laser printer for my printing. I use a Okidata
Okipage 8w. I just can not see paying the $$ for ink cartridges. I think my
last two laser cartridges were about $18 ea (not too bad).
Then select the custom card setting in DX4WIN. I modify the Custom 1 for my
QSL Card. I set it the same 3.25x5.29" and then I set the pitch to be 3x5"
(this is just to keep a border on it). Then I select print cards.

There is a lot of guys who have Epson and HP printers and love this method.
I believe some of them use the tray to feed them. I use the manual feed.
Once I start, all I do is feed it the next card and keep on trucking. I can
print a lot of QSO at once. Typically what I do is wait till after a contest
season and print all of the QSOs for the season on one card.  If I work a
station on 5 bands for two contests and say 3 bands on two other contests,
ALL of the QSOs will fit one card.

This took a bit of setting up, but this should make it real easy for most
everyone to get it up and rolling. Please let me know if this helps.  I will
try to answer any questions I can. it may be tough to answer specific
questions, but I what the heck......

Will NA2NA
http://na2na.homedns.org or telnet to na2na.homedns.org (packet cluster
node)

----- Original Message -----
From: "William Liporace - NA2NA" <[email protected]>
To: "DX4WIN POSTINGS" <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, January 10, 2003 11:04 PM
Subject: [Dx4win] Printing on the back of cards

> I see people asking about printing QSLs on the back of Cards.  DX4Win does
> just fine!!  I have done a couple of thousand QSOs this way. It will even
> print multiple QSOs on one card.  The only down fall that I see is, it
will
> not allow me to print replies and new QSOs on the same card. But works for
> me......
>
> Will NA2NA
>
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