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How To Correctly Print/Align Avery 8371 Business Cards?

Okay. I am printing out "Raffle Tickets" on Business Cards. I downloaded this template off of Microsoft Office's website and customized it to my liking. http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/templates/TC012299651033.aspx?pid=CT101436061033 I made 100 documents and numbered the tickets from 000-999. That took a whole 3 and a half hours. Before I made everyone of them I printed off one copy to see if it worked. Sure enough it did PERFECTLY. I thought Wow! for once somethings going to be easy and work for me. Well I guess I was wrong. I now went to print off the rest of the cards but for some reason my printer (HP PSC 1350 All-In-One) will not print the tickets on the correct region of the perforated paper. It prints right before the first perforation so that the first two lines are omitted. Basically it starts printing right away rather than leaving a space at the top of the page. Funny thing is when I print it on normal paper it works PERFECTLY! I've tried adjusting my margins, hitting the enter button and moving the document down (on MS Word) but even after that it isn't aligned. I've adjusted settings on the print menu, there isn't a choice for perforated paper. Ugh I've wasted probably 20 sheets of paper and a ton of ink trying to do this. It worked last night and now it isn't at all. I'm running out of ideas. I even restored my computer to last night and it still doesn't work. Please someone help I'm so stressed out about this. Thanks for the fast response George, but I've tried flipping the paper upside down, turning it everything. No luck. I tried calling both Staples and Avery's costumer support but they are both closed.

Public Comments

1. make sure you paper is in the printer the proper way around! if you put it in upside down ..or..were the lower ticket is on the top it wont print correctly!.
2. Quite the problem you've got there. It sounds like you've pretty well covered all the possible options, especially with the margins and moving everything down and it still doesn't line up right. Pretty strange. The only other thing I could think of that might help is to select the Avery 8371 label format for your document: 1. On the menu bar at the top of MS Word, click on "Tools" 2. On the drop down select "Letters and Mailings" then "Envelopes and Labels..." 3. In the "Envelopes and Labels" window click on "Options" 4. Under "Printer Information" make sure you've select the right type, 5. Under "Label Information" make sure "Avery Standard" is selected. 6. Find your label number 8371 in the 'Product Number" list (8371 - Business Card) and click on it, then click on the "OK" button. 7. Now click on the "Print" button in the remaining window. You might have to change some of your margins and other settings again to get everything back to where it should be or was before you started trying different things. Hope that helps get things going.