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Printing on 4 X 9 cards in Pages

08/02/2013

 
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OK, this is for you, Jane, and anyone else who has to print on that 4 X 9 card stock that's often used for invitations and the like. I've posted my settings below. Remember how I said this is non-intuitive, so with your specific printer you may have to fiddle with the settings.

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Here's where most problems start. The first tip off that printing is not working is if the Page Size is not consistent with the document you are printing.

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So we have to start here with "Paper Size". This shows the setting after I created the Custom Sized paper, yours will probably show "Letter" or something like that. You have to open this field so you can configure a Custom Size.

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Select "Manage Custom Sizes.

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This is how I configured the 4 X 9 custom paper. You'll first need to click the "+" button at the bottom left of the window to create a new entry. Then name the setting by double clicking on the default name that appears in the window. These are the settings I created. NOTE:  the card stock is really 9" wide, but this is where the non-intuitive part comes in. Reverse the dimensions.

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Once you click "OK you'll be back at this window - make sure you have the landscape icon selected. Otherwise your document will not look right when you return to Pages.

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Here's the rest of the settings for the document. Because of the logo on the left side of the cardstock, I changed the left margin to 3" and the right margin to 1" just to center the content a bit better.
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Here are the print dialog settings. You MAY want to change paper feed to Manual Tray. I did that and the printer required me to press a button for each copy. USUALLY if you just fill the Manual Try, the printer will pull from there first, so you don't have to press the button to print.
 


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