And sure enough the print out had the same problem. Width 9.5”, height 6.32” and a top margin of 2.19” with all the other margins set to 0”. After using a ruler to confirm that this would be the correct amount I needed to shift it down and pressing modify it changed the page to look just like the original page I started with using the center feed. So I went back to Insert->Envelope and on the printer tab chose to shift the print down what I would calculate to be the correct distance. At this point Format->Page showed Width of 9.5”, height 4.13”, Landscape and 0 for all the margins. When I held it up to an envelope it looked perfect. When I did this the page in Writer looked correct like I would expect an envelope to look, but guessing that it would print off the right side of the page I printed it to a piece of paper and sure enough I was correct, it was all the way to the right. Next attempt was to change it from center feed to right feed. When I got close and tried to out think it by changing the envelope width it jumped the addressee and sender by well more than the 0.5" that I adjusted the page width. So it seems that Writer will put the address anywhere but where I want it to go. So I changed the width back to 9.5” and the addressee jumped back to the correct location in the middle of the envelope and the sender was visible but again it was 0.75” to far from the left edge. So I shortened the page from 10” to 9.75” and got the same result. So I tried changing the width of the envelope from 9.5” to 10.0” and when I printed the addressee jumped up 1” and moved to the left 2” and the sender was completely off the page. The addressee looked fine but the sender was still 0.5” too far from the left edge and the first letters were cut off. After I changed the top margin I drug the boxes up and further to the left to where they should look good. So I adjusted the top margin from 2.19” - 1.3" to 0.89” but the left margin was already at 0 so there was nothing I could do to adjust it. In Page->Format the Width was 9.5”, height was 6.31” and Landscape was selected. When it printed it was 1.3” to far from the top of the envelope and 0.75” too far from the left edge. Shift right and Shift down are 0” and 0”. Under Printer I chose the envelope landscape in the middle (2nd from the right) and Print from bottom. I didn't change this for the entire test. Format-> Addressee from left = 4.75” from top = 2.06” Sender from left = 0.39” from top = 0.39”. I created the envelope in the document as per instructions on. It was incredible to watch as the program fought me all the way. I worked for an hour and a half and used 8 or so envelopes and printed on each of them 5 or 6 times and I still couldn't get what I would deem an acceptable print. I have an HP 1600 which does a center feed with the printing being on the bottom of the envelope. I just started using OpenOffice and I was blown away at how difficult it was to print an address onto a #10 envelope. Have the problem unless someone who has such a printer can tell us that there isĪ similar solution in his driver settings. Which does not tell us anything about e.g. User needs to tell the driver what paper is actually in there for paper matching Paper lying in the tray, especially the multi-purpose tray would be normal the So this case is "works" for me (a printer that cannot actually detect the exact Taken from the MP tray, while the "letter" was printed on A4 paper from tray 1. "wrong" case, too) and the envelope was then automatically printed on paper The "MP" tray to C5 and "Tray 1" to A4, the changing the paper sizes in theĭriver actually works (the return code from the driver suggested success in the There you can set the paper formats that are actually in the tray if you set In the printer driver's "Accessories" page However this turned out to be the case because the print driver did not 17:36:03 the brother HL-5170 you lent me indeed prints envelope and letter (I usedĬ5 envelope and A4 "letter") on the envelopes coming from the Multi-Purpose If necessary, I am willing to test code or work with the developer(s) to get Granted, I am not a part of the OOo team, but this sure I can honestly say that I don't recall printing of envelopes under Linux EVER Shifting down past 1.70" causes a similar jump. 1" or higher to the right results in the printing being shifted aboutġ" to the right. Shifting the output using the shift down/right widgets in the format dialog. Weirdness found when using the "sideways - left" (the sixth choice) format and Trying to print using the "sideways - centered" formatįor an envelope results in the text being too far to the right by about 3/4" and Envelopes are center fed.Įnvelope size is #10. Printer at hand is a Brother MFC-8300 Laser. Just spent the past 45 minutes and 17 envelopes trying to get a single envelope
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