Printer Calibration

Sometimes the cards you print out may not line up properly on the card stock. This may happen due to several reasons, such as thick or glossy paper, that slips when it's being fed into the printer, or the printer is not configured properly.

These problems can be solved through printer calibration. Calibration adjusts the difference of what you see on the screen against the result of printing. It's especially necessary for business cards with background.

To bring up the printer calibration dialog, choose File > Calibrate Printer in the menu. By means the dialog you can tell the program direction and distance to shift cards at printing.

Aligns the whole sheet	Aligns only bottom cards (up/down)

The sign of the entered value (positive or negative) affects the shift direction:

Before printing, you should select a printer from the list that will be used for printing.

Insert a sheet of your business card paper into the printer, and click on the Print button to print the calibration rulers on the sheet. Then, enter the ruler values that are against the RIGHT and BOTTOM edges of the top-left card on the sheet into the Vertical and Horizontal fields respectively.

Should it happen that your top cards print okay, while the bottom ones are still slightly off, enter the value against the TOP edge of the bottom-right card into the Scale field of the dialog.

Note: You can enter fractional values as well (for instance, 1.5).

You can set up calibration for each of the printers you use. Choose another printer in the list and repeat the procedure above.

Note: Entering correction values does not affect the calibration rulers on the calibration sheet. They always show the real shift value between printer and program null points, even after calibration.
To see the calibration result, print a test card.