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 > > _______________________________________________ > Dx4win mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dx4win
