John Meyer wrote:
So your settings didn't correspond to the drawing or etching on the
printer itself?
As I said "The paper tray is actually marked with a "drawing" of an
envelope showing the full left/right, portrait/landscape & up/down
orientation. Believe it or not that drawing is "correct"."
But I had to find the etching .... Didn't I? :-( One day I'll learn to RTFM.
The hardest (most time consuming) part came with the exact positioning
of the data in the Writer template.
Harold Fuchs wrote:
Keith N. McKenna wrote:
Harold Fuchs wrote:
Twayne wrote:
I can't comment on how easy or otherwise it is to make envelopes in
Word as (a) I've never done it and (b) I don't have Word installed
or available to install. The only real difficulty I've had with
envelopes in OOo was figuring out which way to put them in my
printer. Once I cracked that, the rest was fairly straightforward.
I seriously think that if you have issues in this area you ought to
raise them with the developers (I'm not one) either by sending a
description of what you think is wrong & how to fix it to
[email protected] or, probably more appropriately, by submitting
one or several bug reports and/or RFEs (Request For Enhancement) to
the QA system by following the advice & links at
<http://qa.openoffice.org>. I haven't looked but there may well be
relevant stuff there already, perhaps even with release/fix dates.
Harold;
I would be eternally greatfull if you could tell me how you
cracked how to load your envelops for printing in writer. I have not
been able to do it for my lexmark printer and finally gave up. Got
sick of the constant headache from beating it against that brick wall.
Regards
Keith
Keith,
Basically trial and error. The one thing I did was to *not* use real
envelopes to test with. Instead I took normal paper and cut
envelope-sized pieces from it. I then drew a "flap" on each side and
labelled each side differently so I could tell, once the printing was
correct, which was "up", which was "left" etc. It sounds more
complicated than it was. Probably took 1/2 hour.
I use European standard A4 paper and what I think are called DL
envelopes. My printer does not have a separate place for envelopes.
Instead I have to take out the paper and put an envelope there
instead. The paper tray is actually marked with a "drawing" of an
envelope showing the full left/right, portrait/landscape & up/down
orientation. Believe it or not that drawing is "correct". The tricky
bit was finding out exactly where on the "page" to put the
addressee's name/address and my own name/address which I position top
left in a very small font. The latter is pre-positioned in my
template. For the former I pre-positioned a small text box in the
template so I can copy/paste the name/address from the letter.
Unfortunately for you I don't have a Lexmark printer so my findings
probably won't help :-(
However, I attach a template (letter.ott) that includes an envelope
that prints properly on my printer. Print Page 1 only for the
envelope and pages 2-n for the letter. I put the envelope in the
paper tray with a short edge leading and the flap uppermost
"pointing" right like a > sign. So
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The "top" of that drawing goes "into" the printer on the right hand
side of the paper tray. Mine is an HP OfficeJet 4315 "All-in-One"
printer.
HTH.
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