reubengraphics Posted December 1, 2014 Share Posted December 1, 2014 hi everyone I'm pretty new to this and very useless on computers. I'm trying to design a business card so I've imported a picture fine, edited it and added what i wanted. I've also set the document size to what i want but every time i go to print in keeps reverting the document to a10 size which you can barely see. what am i doing wrong? thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MattP Posted December 2, 2014 Staff Share Posted December 2, 2014 Hi reubengraphics, I'm sure you're doing nothing wrong - the print dialog and all of the available options is a bit bewildering at the best of times. It's made even harder because your printer driver is the thing that controls what options you have available and what logic is allowed, so it's tough to reliably give advice! :S The first thing I can ask you is... are you designing on a document which is set to the size of the page in your printer you intend to print to? If not, then you can probably avoid a lot of headache by simply making a new document the size of the physical media and just copying your design onto it. You could even do your n-up layout on this page to make sure you get what you intended... If you're designing on a document that is the size of the item you want printed (not the size of the page in your printer) then make sure to look through the printer options on the print dialog... One of them will be suggesting a paper size - you need to set this to whatever your printer can actually print onto, or alternatively maybe your printer has the ability to tell it to print n-up onto a destination paper size? Basically, what I'm saying is: Either design to the size of the destination paper size and simply press print (making sure that your printer isn't auto-defaulting something like scale to fit - which will reduce all your print output to about 96/97% of the intended size!) OR design to the size of your item and use the print dialog's options to target the actual paper size and/or perform n-up printing this way. Let us know how you get on... If you need more help then we'll probably need some more concrete descriptions and some screenshots of the print dialog? :) Thanks, Matt Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reubengraphics Posted December 3, 2014 Author Share Posted December 3, 2014 Thank you that makes sense. I'll start with printer settings if not I'll re draw it onto a4 and print. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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