Good luck with you exhibition. I wish s/Diego/Francisco/ :-)
Thank you!
if I understand you correctly
the problem of two runs could be related to how the program that
you use for printing feeds the data to the printer driver (or maybe
it is the printer driver itself).
In any case, - you might try first flattening the image,
converting or printing it to a PDF
(the one that doesn't preserve editing capability),
so that you "loose" the logical structure of the image, and only then
printing it from the pdf file.
I haven't tried this myself, as I haven't seen this type of problem
myself, but from the logic of why it might be doing this, it should
work.
The problem is that the post card paper has two 4x6" laser-perforated
"pages" on each 8.5x11 actual page.
The combination of the application software I use to output the
addressing information plus limitations of the driver in terms of how
you can define a page's printable area vs what it does when it
finishes printing a "page" means that it's easier to set a page size
of US Letter Standard with a 1.5" top margin, print once for the top
card, then set top margin to 6" and print again to hit the bottom card.
It's a matter of conflicting assumptions by the application and print
driver. Easy work around ... just separate half the addresses into
one file and the other half into another, with the margins set
properly. A little time consuming but that's not too much bother.
For the image printed on the opposite side, the solution is easy:
just construct a Photoshop file with two copies of the image in it,
adjusted to fit on an 8.5x11 in page in the right positions. Hit
print, go out and have a cup of coffee... the HP is not fast when
printing big, high-rez image files at max resolution. ;-)
Godfrey
