#FILE CARDS 3X5 MANUAL#

Page Handling Tab: Shrink to Printable Area Page Setup Tab: Important Selections Only print: All sheets. General Tab: Select printer, Range and Copies desired Header and footer: If “on” default is 0.20', 0.04' is better with AutoFit height checked.ĭouble Click “3x5 Card” in the styles list to ensure it is selected. Margins: Set all to 0.25' or the minimum margin your printer allows Page Tab > Paper Format Format: Select User Other click “Default Page Style” and select “New” It does require some preparation the first time around. In the LibreOffice Print dialogue my only choice is 8.5 x 11 in paper with the drop down menus for other choices grayed out.Be able to send a 3x5 test page from the HP Device Manager to my HP printer successfully.I can have a 3x5 page size in LibreOffice.

I was wondering if anyone has ever tried doing this without the A6 workaround? This works pretty well, with the printing on the A6 size landing squarely in the middle of the 3x5 frame - which, of course is the 3x5 card. Maybe this is a bug, but that’s off topic. Unfortunately, even though you can add another frame for the text inside this frame (for vertical centering), the vertical centering of that inner frame must be done manually. I added a 3x5 frame to it positioned to the left edge and centered vertically. I eventually gave up and used the A6 size (pretty close to 3x5 and prints down the middle of the paper path). (Remember everything is in landscape mode, so the print area in the lower right corner of the page is as if that 3x5 card were down there in the lower left corner of the page.)

Thus, if you feed a 3x5 card, the print misses the card completely. Note that none of the printer definitions seem to take this into account they just describe measurements of the page and print areas within.įor envelopes, this works fine, since something in LO tells the printer to print down the middle of the paper path to match up with where the paper is.īut my 3x5 page prints in the bottom left of a letter-sized sheet fed through as a test.

#FILE CARDS 3X5 MANUAL#

With this printer, you have to slide some guides to the center of the manual feed tray so that the card (or envelope) goes down the middle of the paper path.

I did this by copying the A6 definition and adjusting the sizes slightly for 3x5. I created a 3x5 paper size in my printer definition (.ppd) and that successfully shows up now as a legal paper size. They go through the printer ok if fed in narrow edge first. I would like to print directly to 3x5 index cards.

File cards 3x5