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How to Print Borderless Digital Stationaries…

Posted on October 19th, 2007 by wwaddell.
Categories: Scrapbook Tips, Training.

Hi Scrapbook Friend,

I just got this great question from Vanessa about printing borderless digital stationeries from www.1-Computer-Stationery.com and I thought that it would be great to pass it on to you too.

Vanessa was trying to print her holiday letter, family newsletter, flyer or ???? in Micosoft Word using one of the FREE downloadable digital stationery templates found on www.1-Computer-Stationery.com. 

She was having problems getting it to print on her printer without the defauld border or margins that most document files have set.  She was having the same problem when she used the docuement template (.dot or .doc) format from the site and when she use the .PDF template on the site.  

Here’s what I told her after testing it on our Canon i9900 large format and Canon s450 printers:

First, your printer has to be capable of printing borderless prints.  I’m going to assume that your is.

Second, the default setting for printing letters and documents is that it has a border or margin built into it.  So, when you are ready to print your document, you will not want to just hit the print icon.

Instead, you will want to use the File, Print menu and enter the properties menu for your printer.  If it’s like my Canon, it will have a box to check in the page setup part of the menu to set the printer to borderless mode.  You will then probably need to experiment with how much extension to use (the amount of over print on the edges.  Set that to as small amount as possible to preserve the maximum amount of your stationery border.

Save your settings and continue to print your document.  It should now come out to the edge of your paper… mine did.  It took me 3 tries to find the min I could set on the overprint… but now I know and can use that setting from now on.

I hope this gets you going with borderless digital stationery printing.

Just let us know if we can help with any other scrapbook or digital stationery questions you may have.

Happy Scrappin’

Kathy & Wes

PrincessCrafts
www.1-Computer-Stationery.com (FREE Digital Stationery Downloads)
www.TheGreetingCardBiz.com (Start your own home based Greeting Card Bisiness)
www.HolidayScrapbooks.com (Digital Scrapbook Templates for any Occasion)
www.TwasTheNightScrapbook.com (Twas the Night Before Christmas Storybook Scrapbook)

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