Printer capable of 5x7 card printing

bigdavecox90

So, from my previous testing it seems that my current Epson XP-345 doesn't want to print at this size. I have to load portrait as the card is too wide to load landscape.

Is there a better, reasonably priced model that will print at this size or am I just missing a trick here?

Thanks in advance,

Dave

Le_Kirk

I purchased an Epson XP-860 and it will print A4 from the main cassette, A5 and A6 from the second tray and you can either use normal paper or photographic paper. There is also a rear paper feed slot which is useful for manually printing on both sides (although it also has this facility built in) and I also use the rear feed slot for printing on any material that I don't want to have the printer turn upside down through the rollers as these are often defeated by thick paper or card.

forgotmyname

The printer is fine its the settings.

Doesnt matter which way you load the card, if your picture is 5 tall and 7 wide you need landscape.

The software turns the image not the paper.

bigdavecox90

forgotmyname wrote: »

The printer is fine its the settings.

Doesnt matter which way you load the card, if your picture is 5 tall and 7 wide you need landscape.

The software turns the image not the paper.

Thanks for your response here, so to confirm I just need to try printing on different size card?

The 'paper loading area' (I'm sure there is a specific name for this) is not wide enough to accept the card that I'm trying to print on?

I'm slightly confused by your comments though, as when I try to print in portrait, the printing does come out the correct way, just not the correct size?

bigdavecox90

Le_Kirk wrote: »

I purchased an Epson XP-860 and it will print A4 from the main cassette, A5 and A6 from the second tray and you can either use normal paper or photographic paper. There is also a rear paper feed slot which is useful for manually printing on both sides (although it also has this facility built in) and I also use the rear feed slot for printing on any material that I don't want to have the printer turn upside down through the rollers as these are often defeated by thick paper or card.

Just to confirm, I don't have more than one tray on this printer. Not that I'm aware of anyway?!

EssexExile

Have you checked the manual? The paper only goes in one way around, the software should rotate the image to suit this.

bigdavecox90

EssexExile wrote: »

Have you checked the manual? The paper only goes in one way around, the software should rotate the image to suit this.

This was my thought exactly.

I've never seen a printer with paper loaded in landscape.

I've been setting the print to portrait and loading the card in portrait, print preview looks perfect, but when actually printed it comes out a reduced size and not even in the correct place on the page.

Le_Kirk

What programme are you using to send the print to the printer? it is here that you should be able to adjust the orientation and print size. My Epson XP-860 is not the same as yours and I was offering a suggestion as to a printer that will print successfully on card of different sizes. Check here for the manual and look at page 47. This explains how you can set the paper size and orientation. Bearing in mind it sets the orientation of the IMAGE not the paper, which will always be portrait. If you want to use the rear paper feed (which does not turn the paper over) see page 35 of the same manual.

bigdavecox90

Le_Kirk wrote: »

What programme are you using to send the print to the printer? it is here that you should be able to adjust the orientation and print size. My Epson XP-860 is not the same as yours and I was offering a suggestion as to a printer that will print successfully on card of different sizes. Check here for the manual and look at page 47. This explains how you can set the paper size and orientation. Bearing in mind it sets the orientation of the IMAGE not the paper, which will always be portrait. If you want to use the rear paper feed (which does not turn the paper over) see page 35 of the same manual.

Thanks for your feedback.

So I've designed in AI and tried to print directly from there, however I've also saved as a PDF and tried to print from there also.

Whenever I load paper/card into my printer, it does always pop up asking me to adjust the settings according to paper size on there also, which I've always changed to 5x7, but that doesn't seem to fix the problem either?

Le_Kirk

bigdavecox90 wrote: »

Thanks for your feedback.

I've designed in AI and tried to print directly from there

Not sure what AI is. I use Photoshop (in all it's iterations), Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Publisher and using the Windows default photo viewer. All I do is tell the programme what size paper I am using - if it's your printer that has to be A4 - and what orientation I want the image, then press print. If you want to print on 5x7 card you are best feeding it through the rear feed paper slot, short edge leading and hard over to the RIGHT. Provided you have set your programme to print a 5x7 image, this should be fine.

bigdavecox90

Le_Kirk wrote: »

Not sure what AI is. I use Photoshop (in all it's iterations), Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Publisher and using the Windows default photo viewer. All I do is tell the programme what size paper I am using - if it's your printer that has to be A4 - and what orientation I want the image, then press print. If you want to print on 5x7 card you are best feeding it through the rear feed paper slot, short edge leading and hard over to the RIGHT. Provided you have set your programme to print a 5x7 image, this should be fine.

AI is Adobe Illustrator, so therefore should work the same as Photoshop.

I have been loading in the rear feed paper slot and just continuously having the same issues.

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