Anyone made business cards?

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Jan 19, 2004
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This is more geared towards Word than Photoshop, but I figured if yo had made cards then you would know whats going on! I created a 300dp image with a 2×3.5" document size. After making my card all zippet doo, I open Word and my Avery template 8371 and the card size is th same as my image, when I insert the picture it keeps offsetting it t the right and I cant get the damn thing to center in the box where i should. Anyone had this experience

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Alvie
Jan 19, 2004
Microsoft word measures in characters per inch. I’m not sure how many per inch to the page but that’s how it places graphics – in vertical and horizontal order of characters and lines. Much better to construct a template of your own with PS.

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This is more geared towards Word than Photoshop, but I figured if you had made cards then you would know whats going on! I created a 300dpi image with a 2×3.5" document size. After making my card all zippety doo, I open Word and my Avery template 8371 and the card size is the same as my image, when I insert the picture it keeps offsetting it to the right and I cant get the damn thing to center in the box where it should. Anyone had this experience?

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Gav
Jan 19, 2004
Try right-clicking in the labels window in MS Word, it offers font and position changes, choose ‘central’. Hope you find what I’m talking about :=)
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Tin Ear
Jan 19, 2004
"supchaka" wrote in message
This is more geared towards Word than Photoshop, but I figured if you had made cards then you would know whats going on! I created a 300dpi image with a 2×3.5" document size. After making my card all zippety doo, I open Word and my Avery template 8371 and the card size is the same as my image, when I insert the picture it keeps offsetting it to the right and I cant get the damn thing to center in the box where it should. Anyone had this experience?
If the suggestions offered here do not help, try downloading the Avery Wizard for Word. It is an advanced version of the Microsoft wizard. I find it easier to work with.
http://www.avery.com/us/Main?action=software.AverySoftwareDe tail&catalogcode=WEB01&softwarecode=3201
Be careful of any linewarp in the link.
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jrzyguy
Jan 19, 2004
you have to make sure that your tables are centered first. and then make sure that you have your table margins set to 0.

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"supchaka" wrote in message
This is more geared towards Word than Photoshop, but I figured if you had made cards then you would know whats going on! I created a 300dpi image with a 2×3.5" document size. After making my card all zippety doo, I open Word and my Avery template 8371 and the card size is the same as my image, when I insert the picture it keeps offsetting it to the right and I cant get the damn thing to center in the box where it should. Anyone had this experience?

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This is more geared towards Word than Photoshop, but I figured if you had made cards then you would know whats going on! I created a 300dpi image with a 2×3.5" document size. After making my card all zippety doo, I open Word and my Avery template 8371 and the card size is the same as my image, when I insert the picture it keeps offsetting it to the right and I cant get the damn thing to center in the box where it should. Anyone had this experience?

supchaka

Why use Avery and Word? In Photoshop you just create your cards, print them out in full beautiful colour on a sheet of premium paper and then cut them out with a paper slicer (if you haven’t got one I think I saw a cheapie for $15 at Wal-Mart?).

Personally I like to use two sided paper, put a design, photograph or company logo on the front usually with the individual’s name, then print the extra info on the back. The only concern for printing is that the pages are centered. Very professional looking and people are happy to pay more for them.

~Dr.J.
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supchaka
Jan 20, 2004
Yes, I sort of got them to work in Adobe. I had issues in there too. created a new image 8.5×11 and pasted ten cards into it and lined the all up on the borders, just like the paper layout. When I went to prin one it was too high on the page, I ended up having to disregard my rul marks and just eyeball a print to see how far I needed to move it down 3 or 4 tries and I got it. I’m still off by a pixel or two, as the pag proceeds down the last couple cards start to raise. I can only guess m Avey paper isn’t cut exact, or theres something that gets lost betwee the scale of the two.

Thanks for the inputs, I might look in word again and check the othe things people have mentioned

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Simon
Jan 20, 2004
Why use Avery and Word? In Photoshop you just create your cards, print them out in full beautiful colour on a sheet of premium paper and then cut them out with a paper slicer (if you haven’t got one I think I saw a cheapie for $15 at Wal-Mart?).
Another approach would be to use Avery Quick & Clean Business Card labels. A packet of 200 labels.cards comes with Avery design software and templates especially for the cards. What might interest the original poster is that the software File Menu has a Calibrate Printer command to adjust the label templates for the current printer. The top and left margins are adjusted to deal with any displacement.

Check it out at
http://www.avery.com/uk1/quickandclean/products.jsp
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ragrice
Jan 20, 2004
Almost any desktop publishing software would be better than Word. I used Pagemaker for reasons of familiarity. The page setup for home printing is very simple. I did use the microperf card blanks from Avery, which I recommend for small runs.

ragrice

On Tue, 20 Jan 2004 23:49:16 +1100, Simon wrote:

Why use Avery and Word? In Photoshop you just create your cards, print them out in full beautiful colour on a sheet of premium paper and then cut them out with a paper slicer (if you haven’t got one I think I saw a cheapie for $15 at Wal-Mart?).
Another approach would be to use Avery Quick & Clean Business Card labels. A packet of 200 labels.cards comes with Avery design software and templates especially for the cards. What might interest the original poster is that the software File Menu has a Calibrate Printer command to adjust the label templates for the current printer. The top and left margins are adjusted to deal with any displacement.
Check it out at
http://www.avery.com/uk1/quickandclean/products.jsp

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Alvie
Jan 20, 2004
"ragrice" wrote in message
Almost any desktop publishing software would be better than Word. I used Pagemaker for reasons of familiarity. The page setup for home printing is very simple. I did use the microperf card blanks from Avery, which I recommend for small runs.

ragrice
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Good advise there ragrice.
I use Corel Draw. Have done for years. I made a template (1997) and it’s survived 3 software upgrades and 4 new PCs since then. All it is, is a set of trim ‘+’ in each corner of where the card boundaries are and ‘guides’ (which don’t print) to help arrange the layout.

I make one card and then set the duplicate distance to the hight of the card (2" in my case) and just duplicate a row of 5 cards. If I’m super lazy I just print the same page twice (once turned end-for-end) to get 10 cards to the sheet. There are plenty of freeware publishing programs about if you don’t want to buy one.

BIG Y.
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misifus
Jan 22, 2004
Dr. J. Smith wrote:

Personally I like to use two sided paper, put a design, photograph or company logo on the front usually with the individual’s name, then print the extra info on the back. The only concern for printing is that the pages are centered. Very professional looking and people are happy to pay more for them.

Egad, you’ve defeated the primary purpose of business cards, providing a space to write on on the back! <g>

Seriously, I do like to keep the back clear to write notes on when I give someone a card, things like a price quote, or a date for a next meeting, etc.

-Raf


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Dr. J. Smith wrote:

Personally I like to use two sided paper, put a design, photograph or company logo on the front usually with the individual’s name, then print
the
extra info on the back. The only concern for printing is that the pages
are
centered. Very professional looking and people are happy to pay more for them.

Egad, you’ve defeated the primary purpose of business cards, providing a space to write on on the back! <g>

Seriously, I do like to keep the back clear to write notes on when I give someone a card, things like a price quote, or a date for a next meeting, etc.

-Raf

Ah! Well the extra deluxe folding card takes care of that… same size as a business card but in an emergency you can open it up and write out your will, heh heh heh. ~Doc

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