Printing Postcards in opposite orientation

[Snow-i]

I'm trying to be able to print postcards with addresses from my customers table, but the postcards are too small to print the normal direction in our HP printer. Thus, we have to flip the cards so that the card is going in horizontally.

This presents a major issue when trying to format the 4x6 layout properly. I can rotate the text, but it becomes impossible to properly place and format the text box.

I can flip the orientation in page setup, but this doesn't actually change the way its printed - just the way it looks on screen.

I can change the dimensions in the print screen settings and get it to print in the correct orientation, but then its mismatched with whats on screen and impossible to correctly place and format.

Can anyone help me figure out a way to print these postcards?

I think I mainly need help with the differences in print settings, page setups, text rotations and their on-screen effects vs their print effects.

[comment]

I can rotate the text, but it becomes impossible to properly place and format the text box.

How so?

[Snow-i]

Well, the FileMaker thinks the orientation is "left-right" in the tray when really its "up-down." This causes the data to print the wrong way. If I adjust the page setup settings, it screws up my envelope printing (page setup seems to be global across layouts). If I rotate the text, then whats showing on screen as far as location of the text is completely off, becuase of the mismatch between the orientation FM thinks the paper is, and what it actually is.

Does that make any sense? I solved the problem with Page Setup, but unfortunately this won't work with our other printing necessities.

[comment]

I still don't get it. Why can't you have a print layout with everything rotated 90 degrees?

[Vaughan]

I'm trying to be able to print postcards with addresses from my customers table, but the postcards are too small to print the normal direction in our HP printer. Thus, we have to flip the cards so that the card is going in horizontally.

I reckon that's the problem there. Put the paper into the printer the correct way, and set the page setup in FMP to wide (or tall) to get the orientation correct.

In FMP layout mode you can see the page boundaries move as the page setup is changed.

Note that only objects on the left hand side of the vertical page boundary ever print: FMP is not like Excel where the extra stuff to the right appears on a second page.