Re: [Gimp-user] print business card

["Rick Strong" <rnstrong primus ca>]

You may find the free program SCRIBUS very helpful in doing your layout.

An 8.5" x 11" vertical sheet can be laid out for ten business cards, each 2" 
x 3.5".  Left-Right margins are 0.75", top-Bottom margins are 0.5". You can 
then get two vertical columns of 5 cards each.

Put the front image of your cards in the left-hand column and the reverse of 
your cards in the right-hand column. When you turn the page over to print 
they should print properly aligned front-to-back (depending on the accuracy 
of your printer, of course).

So, do the front and back images of your cards as two separate GIMP files 
and use SCRIBUS for laying them out on your sheet. If you use guide lines 
you can ensure that things are aligned vertically when front and back are 
side-by-side.

When you want to output for print, output to PDF and then print the PDF.

Cheers,
Rick S.

-----Original Message----- 
From: Wrenchman
Sent: Monday, October 02, 2017 10:06 AM
To: gimp-user-list gnome org
Cc: notifications gimpusers com
Subject: [Gimp-user] print business card

Hi there, I'm new to Gimp and to this forum, I've been doing Gimp for about 
a
month now and although I didn't understand it in the beginning it's really 
quite
user friendly, BTW. I use 2.8

anyway I ran into a problem making mine own homemade business-cards, and 
that is
that the front and the back do not perfectly overlap when printed.

I'm trying to push everything a little bit by chance and then hoping for the
best, using a lot of draft paper, but it's still off by about 2 mm on the 
print.

I see one solution would be to make a larger bleeding area, as of now I have
zero bleeding area, but I would rather like to understand how to make a 
perfect
overlap.

more specifically: Horizontally the overlap seems perfect; Vertically it's 
off
by 2 mm

also I discovered that when you print the front and then turn the paper 
around
and put it back in the printer everything turns opposite so that what was
printed on the left side of the paper is now printed on the right side.

Thanks,

:)

Wrenchman

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