[Final Twilight] Print Test

[daMoose_Neo]

Performing a little experiment here with my Final Twilight custom CG and RPGNow.com.
I'm reformatting the cards from 2.5x3.5 to 2x3.5 Business Card size, in sheets of 10, so that people can print the cards off on Avery business cards and play with them.
To accomodate this and help draw some attention to it, I'm doing a couple things:
1) New cards, pieces left out of the print run, 1 per deck
2) Including 2 decks in the POD package as opposed to 1, charging the same price ($8)
3) Including a 50% off certificate for a deck ordered off our website.

What I need now is a couple of test prints from people other than myself. I've reformatted the cards in Word, using the Avery 5371 template. On my prints, the printer is about 1/5 of an inch early, so the first card has some missing and subsequent cards spill over onto each other. Not sure if its the settings, my printer, or what.
If someone could download and print a sample page, see what it does on their printer, that would be wonderful.

Final Twilight - Business Card test sheet

[Trevis Martin]

I tried it

I printed the PDF from Preview on Mac OS X (10.3.4)  printing out on a Lexmark Z52 printer.  It looks like its bleeding off to the left by about 3/16 inch.  Maybe your margins in word are off.  I can see the template lines underneath and they don't jive with the actual business card sheet.

Either that or place it directly in Acrobat and make sure you are exactly .5 inch from the sheet edge left and right.

It also looks like vertically the cards are short by about 3/16 in.

best

Trevis

[daMoose_Neo]

The vertical I'm not too concerned about - the card frame is actually 3.25 inches high, which is what it should be- jives with the actual card layout.

Played with a couple sheets adjusting the Word templates and I concur, think they might be off. Adjusted the left, seems fine there, right still seems screwy. I'll work on that, see if I can't get *that* to line up and upload a second test page.
Regretably, I don't have Acrobat, just the readers. Use PDF995 driver to print to PDF off of another program.
May try fiddling with the layouts in a PrintShop version, though those are FINICKY about the borders and print areas.

btw, my color printer is a Lexmark too, a z25. Any non-Lexmark printers out there? And thanks to anyone trying this out- is a great service to myself ^_^

[daMoose_Neo]

Readjusted sheets, alas my printer is frelled and prints at an angle no matter what I do, so I *Really* need a couple people to help test print this.
Also re-aligned the cards themselves, now fits better within the space alloted, so should work well.

http://final-twilight.neoproductions.net/files/FT_BCardTest(2).PDF

Anyone who can run that off and get me some alignment feedback would be great!

[Chris Passeno]

I've printed this sheet out.

The outer frame measures 3.5x2.  All the cards are but against each other, so cutting/aligning these is gonna be a bitch.

I'm seeing an 1/8" blank gap on top and bottom of piece, where image ends before getting to the frame.

What exactly are you wanting answered?

[daMoose_Neo]

Thats what I wanted to know: if, printed on Business Cards, the images lined up properly with the cards. 3.5x2 is proper, as is the gap at the top.

Most bussiness cards I've found are on the sheets right next to each other, and I want to shy away from harder to find cards.
Maybe I'll take another stroll through Wal*Mart, see what types of cards I can find, maybe some that have some kind of sheets that have a little gap so alignment isn't *so* bitchy.

Just need to know: when printed, does the image align properly with the cards?