Hello, Quite often I do not attempt to say the word 'envelope' to printers. I open a writer document and adjust margins as needed and type what I want on the envelope as an ordinary writer file in the orientation that will match the way the envelope feeds into the printer and the spacing as would be on the envelope. Place the envelope in the printer and tell the printer to print. My printers do not need to know I am putting the printing onto an envelope. I have different 'writier' files saved as templates and use these over and over again. If it is an envelope that is often repeated I can save it as a File in a Folder of envelopes. Much less of a problem than trying to think how the printer thinks. Melda ~ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 7/24/07, Christian Einfeldt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
hi thanks for your reply... On 7/23/07, Frank Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, 23 Jul 2007 19:56:22 -0700 > "Christian Einfeldt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > The top border of the strip is the top of the envelope. The bottom > > border of the strip is 8 mm (5/6th inch) from the top of the > envelope. The > > rest of my return address is situated below that strip. I just need to > > print specific info into that 8mm wide strip. OOo won't let me do that. > > That sounds more like an issue with your printer driver than with > OpenOffice > itself. More specifically, with the un-printable print margins that the > printer can't print into. But the freaky thing about this problem is that I have a very, very vanilla printer. It's an HP 5P, and solid as a rock, and very old. HP is well supported in GNU Linux. And I am using SUSE 10.2, and Novell is really good about drivers. As you say that it works with your old setup, that means that it's not a > hardware limitation of the printer. No, actually it did NOT work with my old Mepis set up; it only "worked" because I had tweaked it and tweaked it to the point where it would print in that space, but the larger problem of the print preview not rendering accurately was still a problem. You may be able to fiddle the CUPS configuration (http://localhost:631) to > reduce or eliminate the un-printable margins. Boy, that sounds scary. I have been using FOSS since 2001, and I know about 20 script commands, but I am still hoping to avoid moding config files, if I can help it. Alternatively, have you considered creating your envelopes in landscape mode > and running the envelopes through sideways? I *am* using landscape mode. Landscape is the more horizontal orientation, and portrait is the more vertical orientation, right? At any rate, the stylist shows the envelope properly oriented the way you would place an envelope on the table in front of you if you wanted to read it. You may also be able to get away with specifying a larger sheet size than > your > envelopes actually are, in order to force it to print into the > "unprintable > area". k, thanks, I will give this a try! -- > MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Melville Sask ~ http://www.melvilletheatre.com > -- Christian Einfeldt, Producer, The Digital Tipping Point
