Generic laser question

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Mike Painter

My new Dell 1700 laser will not print the top .25 and bottom .19 inch.

My question is what is normal for other brands of lasers?

I have some 5 up pre-printed cards that need to be filled and they have no
top border.
As a result I have to cheat a bit and let the information creep about .025
inches per card.
No big deal but the cards could be redesigned a bit to solve the problem.

If I can gather enough info I'll approach them with this.

I suspect most people are using ink-jet for them.
 
Most printers have unprintable areas, and the bottom margin on injets is
typically .5 or even .7 inch, due to the way the rollers feed the paper.

Even, if you don't need to actually print into the very top and bottom of
each card, the problem remains as to how to get Access to space the detail
section evenly to you get 5 printed exactly in the right place on one page.
If that his the issue you are stuggling with, the solution involves using a
spacer section on the page between the cards, and programmatically
suppressing the spacer section at the bottom of the page. Details in:
Print a page with 3 evenly spaced mailing slips
at:
http://allenbrowne.com/ser-54.html
 
Allen said:
Most printers have unprintable areas, and the bottom margin on injets
is typically .5 or even .7 inch, due to the way the rollers feed the
paper.
Even, if you don't need to actually print into the very top and
bottom of each card, the problem remains as to how to get Access to
space the detail section evenly to you get 5 printed exactly in the
right place on one page. If that his the issue you are stuggling
with, the solution involves using a spacer section on the page
between the cards, and programmatically suppressing the spacer
section at the bottom of the page. Details in: Print a page with 3
evenly spaced mailing slips at:
http://allenbrowne.com/ser-54.html
Click to expand...
After a few problems with complex math (2.125 - .325 = 1.9) I'm very close.

I suspect that 1.8 + .325 is not quite 2.125 in the Access world as the
print creeps down the page a bit.

Thanks. As an old computer science prof of mine used to say
"Do you know what's wrong with that idea?"
"I didn't think of it."
 
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