I have printed 10,000 + cards directly using an HP710 Inkjet and a HP LaserJet 5L.
I simply set up the custom qsl format using a paper size of 8-1/2 x 11 and position the DX4WIN report block where I want it on the card. I print them in stacks. This may not be apprioprate for your application since I have cards printed without a report block and then print in the space the report block. Charley W1TE P.S. The direct print is well worth the effort of setting up. I get five plus thousand bureau cards a year to answer. Greetings, I do quite a bit of answering QSL's! 2nd to last batch was 3200 cards which was done using labels. Labels were put on the cards by my good neighbor and friend and his family! (KF4QQY) Sure saved me a lot of time. The last batch I did showed 3125 QSO's when I started to make labels. I also wanted a way to print directly to the card. Attachment 1 (if attachments are allowed) shows the card design made up by another friend (NK4H). VERY Important...If you make up a card like this, leave off the TNX QSL PSE in the lower left corner.. I will with the next order. Attachment 2 shows the label setup from the DX4WIN label setup. Attachment 3 shows how the card looks with 6 QSO's . Could have made it more or changed the font by removing the TNX QSL PSE from the card. (Yes, it is another call. but same setup) I order 5,000 cards at a time and have the printer do all the cutting. There is a variation in size when done this way, but by omitting the TNX QSL PSE, the "label" info can be moved down a little and would handle the variations. I use a Cannon BJC - 3000 printer. Biggest problem is having to load the cards in the small tray. I normally print 50 cards at a time using the Pages\Range option. 1 - 50, 51 - 100 etc. I set a postage scale up next to the printer, take the printed cards and set the on top of the scale. Add till I have a pound, put a rubber band around them and put them in the box to ship out to the outgoing buro. 18.5 pounds of cards are now ready to go. Rough guess is 225 cards with labels per pound over 300 with direct printing. If the attachments did not make it thru the mailer, send me a message and I will send you the attachments directly. Love the digital camera!! Take care 73/Bob W4MYA Bernie I have printed direct since Version 5 and it is easy but lots depend on how your printer handles cards. Most Ink-jets you feed face down and the mechanics push it out face up. I have had no success with Brother Laser Printers due to heat/pressure bending the QSL's ie they come out curved and are difficult to get flat again. I use 80gm or 100gm Card stock from a QSL printer who leaves an area to permit me to print 6-QSO's max/card. How do you go about it? I want to print directly onto QSL Card. I have a Brother MFC 7000 fc printer. WE don't have a printer with that model # Bernie, I will hang tight in case others explain how to set up DX4WIN for direct printing but I use Custom Label 1 and 2 set up for 2 different QSL Cards. Standard Card Size 140mm Wide 90mm High with an area 75mm x 40mm clear for my print data. The position of which is adjustable/defined within DX4WIN EDIT custom Label. Naturally your label is 1-per sheet and size is 140x90. Under windows "Setup printer use Hagaki Card (100x148) and printers usually will handle about 50 cards stacked. Check and set up each print run for both DX4WIN and Print properties before committing to print. Remember also if you screw it up do not check the update QSL date after printing. If you say no the print run is not updated in your DX4win Logbook. ie Label flag is\still Y and no QSL Date is set. Due to ink fade some people do not use direct printing but if you accept Normal Print or Best Print Quality then I have no problems. In draft mode thwere is never enough ink for a permanent long term record but some use it for speed of printing. A good printer at 3=4/minute give good quality and not too much hassle with time taken to print. I ALSO LIKE TO BREAK DOWN THE PRINT SIZES TO MAXIMUM 800 -1000 QSO;S UNLESS I am dealing with a log containing lots of multiple band QSO's eg CQWW on 10-160m with lots worked on 6-bands. The other major factor is to read the user manual in regard to qsl PRINTING GENERALLY. 73 John G3LZQ Beware that ink jet printers use water soluble ink that runs if it gets wet and fades in a relatively short time, like less than a few years, faster if exposed to light. Laser printers fuses the ink particles into the media with intense heat and it remains permanent. 73, Rog-K9RB ----- Original Message ----- From: "Anthony R Gargano N2SS" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, June 16, 2004 1:58 PM Subject: Re: Dx4win Digest, Vol 2, Issue 15 > Bernie, perhaps sharing some of the responses you received might be helpful > to others who are trying to do the same thing. Tony N2SS > > At 04:50 AM 6/16/2004, you wrote: > >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > >From: "wo2n" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Precedence: list > >Subject: Re: [Dx4win] Printing on QSL Cards > >Cc: Robert S Morris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [email protected] > >Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 20:02:25 -0400 > >To: "Charley Schwartz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Content-Type: text/plain; > > charset="iso-8859-1" > >MIME-Version: 1.0 > >Message: 4 > > > >Gee, thx fellows for excellent replies and W4MYA for the attachments!!!. > >I'll be expermenting and see if I can get something going. > >BTW my printer is a inkjet Brother MFC 7000FC 6 in 1. > >So basically I get started in custom area. okay fine. > >73, Bernie/WO2N.> > > > > > > > >_______________________________________________ > >Dx4win mailing list > >[email protected] > >http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dx4win > > >
