2-3 Printing a card
A large number of Windows applications allow documents to be printed (for example the tools in Microsoft’s Office suite, i.e. MS-Word,
MS-Access, Ms-Excel, MS-PowerPoint).
To gain familiarity with the layout of a card and configuring its formatting and printing, we suggest the following example.
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In Microsoft
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Word
After having set the Evolis printer as the default:
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Start the MS-Word application
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Click on the
File
in the menu bar, then on
Page Setup
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The
Paper
tab has a
Paper Size
option, select
CR80 Card
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In the
Margins
tab, set all margins to ‘0’, then in the
Orientation
section, select Landscape.
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Close the window by clicking OK.
Your Word window should now look like this:
You are ready to customise your card by adding the various items that go to make
up a card:
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Logo and Illustration
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Identification photo
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Fixed and variable text
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Bar code, etc.
Once ready, click on
File
and then on
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