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My girlfriend and I are currently designing a greeting card. The cover of the greeting card will be made using “embossing technique,” and the inlay will be made from a sheet of parchment that we will print using my good, old, trusted HP LaserJet 5MP.<\/p>\n

What sounds like an easy job (printing the sheet of parchment) turned out to be not-so-easy. The problem is that the sheet of parchment we bought in a crafting shop is not a standard DIN format, and that the printer driver for my LJ 5MP didn’t seem to allow me to create custom paper formats. No matter how hard I searched for a menu that would allow me to do that, I didn’t find any.<\/p>\n

So I used Google to search for this particular problem, and it took me quite a while until I came up with the following solution<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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If you can't find your paper size in your printer's list, you'll have to\r\ncreate a custom paper format for it. Open control panel, go to printers,\r\nselect you printer and click File -> Server Properties (that's File from\r\nxplorer's menu, not from your printer's right-click menu). You'll be\r\nable to create a new paper format.<\/pre>\n<\/blockquote>\n
Man, this <\/em>is obvious, huh??? \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n
I don’t know what idiot at Microsoft hid the setting at that <\/em>place.  Hey, buddy, if you’re listening — what kind of drugs have you been consuming when you did that???<\/p>\n
Update:<\/strong> Even tho I now have a custom paper format, OpenOffice still doesn’t print the way we want. \ud83d\ude41 I’m not even sure that we aren’t running across a bug in OpenOffice… Anyway, we’re now fed up fiddling around with paper sizes and such — we are now using the next larger built-in paper format together with manually adjusted margins, so that the page contents are placed where we need them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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