Canon Printer alignment problem?

[QueBert]

I bought a Canon i850 the other day, was having big problems getting it to print straight. I had a templet in CorelDraw for Business cards, it was the exact one Avery said to use for the paper I bought. I'd load my graphics into the templet and print it out. Each card down the spacing got worse, by the bottom row of cards (5th) a good 1/4 of an inch was printing above the border. I called Canon, they told me to do a head alignment, did nothing. So I took the printer back and got a i550, same issue.

I also tried a templet in Word. It's not printing crooked it's just not spacing right (if that's what you'd call it?) Anyone have any experince with Canon printers, or have ran across this problem?

I'm at my wits end trying to figure this out!

thanks

 

[Peter]

You say the vertical positioning of individual card prints isn't matching the length of the card material pre-cuts?

This is a popular problem, and it rarely is the printer's fault. What you should be doing is download a template file for the paper you got there from the manufacturer of the paper. I know Avery Germany provides that service, StarOffice even has templates included for every possible and some of the impossible print material types.

 

[QueBert]

Originally posted by: Peter
You say the vertical positioning of individual card prints isn't matching the length of the card material pre-cuts?

This is a popular problem, and it rarely is the printer's fault. What you should be doing is download a template file for the paper you got there from the manufacturer of the paper. I know Avery Germany provides that service, StarOffice even has templates included for every possible and some of the impossible print material types.

it's horizontal, vertical is
like if this is the card's top ------ the words will be like this ------TEXT
obviously if 1/2 the text on the top row ios being cut off there is a problem, this also leads to the bottom being blank because everything rode up 1/4 of an inch.
could it be because I'm trying to do border to border prints? I know my printer supports borderless prints though.

I tried gettin the template for the paper from Avery, same issue. I know it's probably not the printers fault. But, the same template printed the same cards fine on my older Canon 🙁

looks like I gotta waste 40 sheets of paper while I manually make a template that lines up properly hehe

 

[Peter]

That's VERTICALLY off, my friend.

So it's not losing alignment as it proceeds downward, it's off right from the start, and the offset stays that way?

You shouldn't be operating the printer in borderless mode, then.

 

[QueBert]

Originally posted by: Peter
That's VERTICALLY off, my friend.

So it's not losing alignment as it proceeds downward, it's off right from the start, and the offset stays that way?

You shouldn't be operating the printer in borderless mode, then.

Ok it's vertically my bad 🙂

the top is slightly off, not really noticable though, as it goes down the offset is more and more. It's very noticable by the 5th card on the bottom row. And I'm not printing in borderless mode, I'm just hitting print, tried Word & Corel Draw. Both give me the same effects, I'm using Avery's temp for Word straight from their web site, and Corel's built in, says it's for the exact labels I bought *shrug*

guess I gotta make my own from scratch, I know it's not the printer itself seeing how 2 completly different printers and models did the same thing.