I am having problem while printing Employee's Pay Envelope. I have EPSON LQ-680 printer and Pay Envelope Roll. it prints okay in first record but from the second record it prints just down below the envelope margin and it goes more further down in next record.

I know there should be some adjustment eighter in printer or layout setup, I tried layout setup, still could not guess whats wrong.

any help will be highly appriciated.

Thanks

Edited May 18, 200619 yr by Guest

If your records are creeping down as you print, your body part is too big. Try to figure out how much it creeps down from the first record to the second and shrink the body part accordingly.

Hi John

thanks, i've tried my best,but could not fix this out. my body part is upto my printable edge area and it prints exactly in first envelope but from the second it creeps down ward. i've tried fixing from layout fix print, but cant work it out. To tell you i've only body part in this layout, is it necessary to put header or footer part?

If you are referring to the horizontal dashed line, that represents your page break. You can move it above that line.

Ok John, I've attached scanned copy of Pay Envelope here, as you can see 1st records is perfectly ok, but from the 2nd it creeps down, I run similer paper like invoice roll where they print and tear for each customer.

In my layout that horizontal line is attached with printable area as you can see in this pic.

its been very challenging for me to get it work out.

thanks for your help.

regards

The wierd part is the fields move down but the text doesn't. Do you have sliding objects turned on? I'm fishing at this point because if it was on, you would think things would creep up. But, it's worth a try. Select all the objects on your layout and turn off sliding objects. Also, you might want to try a header part. Place it in that small blank area at the top of your layout. You might have to fiddle with the body part size a little more once you add it.

No, it isn't finished yet John, those text headings are already printed on envelope itself from the printing press, I am just putting corresponding field values on that. otherwise I would have spotted that earlier.

I've tried putting header/footer parts but could not figure out what is wrong.

I think is quite clear that your virtual page is taller than the actual envelope.

I don't know how it works with a continuous feed printer - with a page feed printer you can make your page shorter than the paper, then turn on the 'Start new page after...' option. If that doesn't work, you will need to match your page height precisely to the envelope.

I've tried every possible way and i guess File Maker doesnt scale well, i've read this article on the web posted by someone.

but still im struggling to make it.