| Forum Home | ||||
| Press F1 | ||||
| Thread ID: 88392 | 2008-03-26 02:03:00 | MS Word - picture to edge of page | susann (12077) | Press F1 |
| Post ID | Timestamp | Content | User | ||
| 652859 | 2008-03-26 08:53:00 | Printer margins, people! It doesn't matter how clever you are with your layout, there is a physical limitation in most printers that will not allow printing within some distance from the paper edge. On my laserjet for instance, the margin is 6.35mm (1/4 in), and you cannot print in this area. You can test this by creating a page with a black border (say) 25mm wide, that extends up to the page edge. Then print it. Whatever you do, you will have a white strip around the page. Or am I talking rubbish? Will someone please comment? You're spot on Tony. The other way would be to set the file up as a an A4 file and send a PDF off to a local print shop and let them crop - they would be printing 2 up on over size A3 which would allow you to set your A4 document up with a 2mm bleed. Set the file up in either MS Publisher :yuck:, Quark :) or InDesign :drool and export as a print ready PDF. paper print sizes explained here www.cl.cam.ac.uk |
vitalstatistix (9182) | ||
| 652860 | 2008-03-26 09:04:00 | The other way would be to set the file up as a an A4 file and send a PDF off to a local print shop and let them crop - they would be printing 2 up on over size A3 which would allow you to set your A4 document up with a 2mm bleed. Set the file up in either MS Publisher :yuck:, Quark :) or InDesign :drool and export as a print ready PDF.Yes, that would work, but I got the impression from the OP that we were looking at an office printer. |
Tony (4941) | ||
| 652861 | 2008-03-26 09:24:00 | Yes, that would work, but I got the impression from the OP that we were looking at an office printer. I believe that is correct Tony - however unless the poster only wants one or two copies, sending the file to a digital printer would be a better idea in the long run. |
vitalstatistix (9182) | ||
| 652862 | 2008-03-26 09:31:00 | Pardon the double post. The other option would be to print an A4 page with bleed on an A3 office printer although that would mean a lot of wasted paper when giloutining. | vitalstatistix (9182) | ||
| 652863 | 2008-03-26 09:40:00 | Pardon the double post. The other option would be to print an A4 page with bleed on an A3 office printer although that would mean a lot of wasted paper when giloutining.:thumbs: | Tony (4941) | ||
| 652864 | 2008-03-26 18:56:00 | I have an Epson R800 and a R2400 printer and with word i can set it to 0 margins, place the image in a text box with 0 margins and hang it off the edge of the page. It looks correct in normal view but in print preview it is on the edge on the left but down about 1 cm at the top even with the printer set to borderless. I can put the image into Pagemaker or coreldraw and print it on or over the edge it has no limitation when I print borderless so all I can assume is that it is a problem with Word even if you DO have a printer that can print borderless. I often use borderless on my printers with both pagemaker and corel to bleed to the edges, but hardly ever use word except for some text only stuff. |
Bantu (52) | ||
| 652865 | 2008-03-26 19:11:00 | I have an Epson R800 and a R2400 printer and with word i can set it to 0 margins, place the image in a text box with 0 margins and hang it off the edge of the page. .... I often use borderless on my printers with both pagemaker and corel to bleed to the edges, but hardly ever use word except for some text only stuff.That rather supports my contention that borderless printing is a feature of higher-spec gear, I think? |
Tony (4941) | ||
| 652866 | 2008-03-26 20:18:00 | It can probably be done in MS Publisher, but once again you will need a printer that can print borderless. Alternatively use larger paper and trim, maybe Legal Size would be suitable. | Bantu (52) | ||
| 652867 | 2008-03-26 22:22:00 | Thanks for all the posts guys, unfortunately I wanted to be able to set it so we could print lots of copies of this document (which is a form) a various times - so using the giloutine is out of the question as is taking it to a shop. Ah well, the logo will just look a little strange but not a major as it's only an internal doc. Cheers Susan |
susann (12077) | ||
| 652868 | 2008-03-26 22:51:00 | paper print sizes explained here www.cl.cam.ac.uk is a really interesting document (in a geeky sort of way). |
Tony (4941) | ||
| 1 2 | |||||