Re: printing on postcard problem

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From: Rob (rob_at_nospam.com)
Date: 10/11/04 

Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2004 16:08:04 -0400

But then the text needs to be rotated 90 degrees as I need the text to be
oriented along
the long edge of the card.

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" <sbarnhill@mvps.org> wrote in message
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> Make sure your setup is for Portrait with height 4" and width 6".
>
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> "Rob" <rob@nospam.com> wrote in message
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>> I'm tearing my hair out over here on something that should be simple.
>> I'm
>> printing on 4x6 postcards, however my printer will not accept the
> postcards
>> with the short edge pointing inwards. (when it feeds the cards in, it
> slips
>> every time and I lose a couple of inches of print, they are glossy...
>> with
>> them oriented the long way, the printer has more rollers against the card
>> and grabs them better). So, I'm trying to feed them in along the long
> edge.
>>
>> No matter how I set the page layout or the printer driver orientation, it
>> wants to print the documents as though they were being fed in along the
>> short edge. Basically I need to rotate everything 90 degrees.
>>
>> I'm using Word to do this because it's a mail merge document where I'm
>> pulling in records from an Excel spreadsheet and have several hundred
>> postcards to print.
>>
>> Thanks for any help.
>>
>>
>

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