ENVELOPEDIA HELP - International ONLINE MAIL PRINTING APPLICATION
General settings
We saw that the browsers are not reading accurate the margins where the printer cannot write an even if they'll do, the browsers are letting biger margin at the left. This margins must be as correct as posible because are very important for labels, and especialy for litle labels.
You can set this margins as you will see bellow - like in the browser's Page setup, like on the test page or you can set the left margin between 7 an 10 mm, top margin 5 mm, right margin 4 or 5 and bottom margin 5. this settings will work on the majority of the printers.
The most secure method for retrivieng the exact margins is to print the test page and after that measure up the margins an put in the form that can be seen on the bottom of the page. The litle square from the test page are 2mm x 2mm.
After you measured up the margins, enter in the General Settings and add a new printer or edit an existing one and in the Browser margins form fields put that vakues.
In the browser' window Page Setup write to all the margins 0. In mozzila and opera, the margins wil permanently reamin at 0 but in IE the margins will be read again from the system printer settings.
In Internet Explorer, if you will set in application, the browser top margin and the browser bottom margin smaller than tey are and its sum will be smaller than the real margins sum it will not be display anything and it will print nothing. If you will encounter such a situattion, add 1 mm or 2mm to each.
If you are using Internet Explorer 7, to keep default 100% size at printing, you have to donwload and launch the file IE100.reg
Most important is to remove headers and footers from the browser window Page setup.We recomend Internet Explorer 8 or the updated versions of Mozilla Firefoxand Opera.
Google Chrome and Safari cannot be used because they are not having options to remove headers and printers..
WE RECOMAND Mozilla Firefox,
Al the browsers are reading the page size from the system printer settings. So, it would be very quite important to change that to A. All the coordinates are related to A4.
Below you can see all the settings that you have to make in the browser page setup.
The printer used by the broser is the default printer from the system or the last printer selected to print from that browser.
Internet Explorer (we reccomend version 8)
Enter in File->Page Setup... The file menu is th same in all versions of IE.
Internet Explorer version 8
The most important thing is to choose "Empty" for all fileds of header and footer like in the bellow image. If IE is in another language than english, "Empty" will apear in that language.
To set the minimum margins that the browser "think" that are minimum, set all margin fields at 0 and then clicki OK, after that open again the Page setup window and there will be the minimum values that are accepted by the browser for that printer.
As we already recomended, Page Size it's better to be set in the printer settings from Control Panel, as A4.
The option Print Background Colors an Images does not have to be checked. Very important is tu uncheck the Enable Shrink-to-fit option.
In the Print Preview window you can choose the orientation (portait or landscape), the buttons 2 and 3 from left to right. In the filed where is selected "100%" it's important to be "100%".
Internet Explorer version 7
Remove all texts from Header and from Footer.
To set the minimum margins that the browser "think" that are minimum, set all margin fields at 0 and then clicki OK, after that open again the Page setup window and there will be the minimum values that are accepted by the browser for that printer.
As we already recomended, Page Size it's better to be set in the printer settings from Control Panel, as A4.
In IE 7 it's a problem with "Shrink-to-fit" wich is default and you have to go to Print Preview and set to 100% and print from there.
To be sure that you will not forget to change all the time with 100% and to remove this worry for every print, download and launch the file IE100.reg.
In the Print Preview window you can choose the orientation (portait or landscape), the buttons 2 and 3 from left to right. In the filed where is selected "100%" it's important to be "100%".
Internet Explorer version 6
Remove all texts from Header and from Footer.
To set the minimum margins that the browser "think" that are minimum, set all margin fields at 0 and then clicki OK, after that open again the Page setup window and there will be the minimum values that are accepted by the browser for that printer.
As we already recomended, Page Size it's better to be set in the printer settings from Control Panel, as A4.
Mozilla Firefox
Go to File->Page Setup...
Mozilla is the only browser wich keeps permanent the setting for orientation (portrait or landscape) . Do not forget to change the orientation when you want to print with another orientation.
The other settings must be like in the bellow image.
In mozilla there is no option for Page Size so, you will be forced to set the Page Size from printer settings from Control Panel.
Mozilla accepts all the margins to be 0 but it will print depending on the printer margins that the selected printer supports and, as all the browser with few additional mm.
The header and the Footer has to be "blank" in all fields.
In Print Preview window you can Change the orientation.
Opera
Go to File->Print Options...
The settings has to be like in the bellow image. At ta margins put 0 in all fields.
Printer and margin settings in application
To make in application the settings for the selected printer, for the browser that you are using, margins, adjusting, paper position in printer tray, where the printing starts on the page, go to My account->General Settings. In Internet Explorer and Opera, if the sum of the top margin and bottom margin is smaler than those the browsers are using for calcululations, you wil not see anything at print preview and there will be nothing printed. If this happens to you, increment the top and bottom margins with 1 or 2 millimeters util you will see the addreses of the labels or of the envelopes.
The radio button from each row represents the active setting in that moment. If you will click on the radio button of the other row, that setting will become active and will be saved in your account until you will change again.
Red button (X) is used to delete a saved setting and the yellow one is used to edit the parameters for that setting..
If you want to add a new setting, click on the Add new printer and browser setting and an window like you see below will be opened. Write there all the parameters that you need and click Save..
The name of the printer is a name given by you to have the posibility to recognize and select it from other saved settings when you need it.
In Browser margins write the dimensions of the margins from the browser Page Setup if there are not 0 or, BETTER, the measured margins from the test page after you have printed it. If in the browser,the margins are expresed in inch, check inch radio button, otherwise check millimeters.
Adjusting margins is used when all the settings are ok but the text doesn't print on the correct coordinates. This will move all the texts on Horizotal or Vertical directions. Negative values will move to the left or to the top, and positive values will move to the right and to the bottom.
Paper position in the tray is set according to the mode that paper guides are closing to the paper. For example, at the laser printers the paper is positioned in the center.
Start prints is important only for landscape orientation and for most printers, the setting is "the side that enter first in the printer".
