Major problems printing out autograph pages! Help?

[Courtney892]

We have tried printed out 4x6 autograph pages using both Windows Picture Viewer and Photoshop Elements 6.0, and we cannot get a good image to save our lives.

Sometimes when landscape is selected, it prints out as portrait and vice versa.

The paper I have is from a spiral bound autograph book where the pages are removed, so I am able to print it as a 4x6 "picture" and it will do it with no margins. However I am trying to avoid the top .5" on the paper so that I can trip off the part that goes through the spiral binding when I put it into my scrapbook. The programs are absolutely refusing to do this if we manually set the size that we want. It will also not print it as a 3x5 "picture" correctly.

It will print as a perfect 3x5 in the center of a full sheet of paper, so the only idea I have left is to try to double-sided tape my paper in the center of a full sheet of paper to see if it will print correctly in that case. Hubby thinks that will be a ridiculous amount of work that has to be precise for at least 25 different sheets if I only print the pages of characters we'll see at character breakfasts.

I have been practicing on Chaos's pages thus far. Are some of the designers building some time of margin in that I need to account for?

Help please if you are able! We leave pretty soon!

 

[chaoscent]

I don't have any advice for printing, I left a margin around all of them and it worked by taking them to the corners in Photo Impact (the program I used to make them)

If you want me to send you the original ufo's I can do that for about 10 or 15 of them (all would take very long? I leave tomorrow for two weeks so email me if you want them.
chaoscent@verizon.net
Penny

 

[Courtney892]

I was able to print them out in Photo Impact, so thanks for sharing the info on the program you used.

I am pretty curious about why it wouldn't follow margin or directional rules in the other two programs we tried. Does anyone know? I will try to use designs created by programs I own if this is regularly a problem.