Re: Envelope #10 and HP 1522nf Printer Margins

On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 02:12:53AM -0900, Roger wrote:
>

I dunno if this is in response to my posting a few days ago about envelope
printing in Abiword or not, but...

>
> Here's what I have to do to create an envelope within Abiword with proper
> margins for printing on Envelope #10 media. Although I'm seeing better success
> printing envelopes with Abiword vs. OpenOff, Abiword pushes the margins
> slightly to the right on envelope printing on my HP 1522nf laser printer.
>
> (OpenOff would force margins too far to the left, etc, but finally got it
> working by changing the print direction buttons to non-standard options. After

Odd, I have no trouble printing a #10 envelope, at all, with OOo. I choose
#10 envelope paper size, set to landscape, tweak the margins a little
(to make the gap at the top and left edge smaller), then start typing.
once I'm done I hand-feed an envelope, hit print, and voila. I've done
this on my Brother laser at home and several bigger HP laserjets at
work. The particular printer I was using with abiword is a HP Laserjet
1200, and I don't recall if I've ever used OOo with it for envelope
printing.

But, thanks for the recipe you've found to work with Abiword, I'll give
it a try.

> years of fiddling and now this hype, I'm finally migrating to Abiword, but not
> before using VIM for awhile. ;-)
>
>
> To create an envelope within Abiword:
> 1) File > Page Setup and configure for Envelope #10
> 2) Configure for landscape printout
>
> Set proper return address margins
> 1) Move left margin to 3.125“
> This fixes printing the envelope too far to the right!
> 2) Move top margin to 0.1875“
> Move the address further to the top as it looks better closer to the edge.
>
> Set proper addressee margins
> 1) Move left indent to 3.50“
> Centers the addressee to compensate for correcting the left margin above.
>
> Configure printer to defaults by setting "Default paper size: Letter" and "Tray 1
> size/type: Any".
>
> Choose print, leaving Page Setup at their defaults (Paper type/source:
> Unspecified/Auto). Select OK to print.
>
> I'm still hunting each time on how to create an envelope if I haven't done this
> operation for awhile. MS Word & OpenOff had "creating evelope" menu links for
> this common task. But, once I create an envelope, I've saved it and used it
> for the next envelope task.
>
>
> One side note, I'm not seeing keyboard keys for "increasing and decreasing
> indent". A common task performed within VIM here, is shift+v, cursor up/down
> to select text lines, shift+< or shift+> to increase/decrease indents. Of
> course, prefix shift+</> with a number to increase indents ($number * 5
> chars).
>
> When typing, always like to keep fingers on the keyboard, refraining from going
> to a mouse.
> --
> Roger
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