Hello. my question is about printing business cards from photoshop. I have and hp printer. And I want print my card design on the avery card paper that I brought. But what I dont understand is how do I go about setting up the page and photoshop to print out my card design on every card on the avery business card paper. I dont think there is and option for buisness cards but i do have the option for landscape and portrait. Do i need additional software? If anyone can point to a tutorial or give a detailed desription I would be grateful for any help thank you for any help.
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There are numerous ways to do this. Here is one I am making up as I type:
Set your page size to 8.5×11 or some other appropriate size. Scan the Avery card sheet or the template that came with the cards and place it in Photoshop. Set guides to correspond to the perforations in the card sheet. Duplicate your card design 5 times and arrange the duplicates vertically on one side of the page. Link the duplicates and create a Layer Set. Duplicate the layer set and move it to the opposite side of the page. Print some test sheets and tweak as needed. Print your cards.
Ahhh…I remember now…My Mom wanted me to do simple calling cards for her, and she brought me a pack of microperf Averys.
I went to the Avery site, and saw the [shudder3] Word file templates.
Then, I jumped on Google, and after quite a long search, I found a collection of Avery templates in EPS format.
Sorry, but I’ve forgotten where. All I remember was that the site had an .au (australia) country code in the domain name.
In the time I spent, I could’ve measured and made the template myself, from scratch, twice or three times over. But I was on a resource-hunting mission…
I don’t think a general template will work due to the different margins for the various printers.
Make a new canvas. 8.5×11 Make a new layer overlay the grid and draw a few horizontal and vertical lines with the pen tool as guides. Print this setup. Now you see where the lines printed on your printer. Measure the distances. Back in PS drag guides using the navigater to read rhe proper distances needed. Make selections and save them.Save the template. Then design your card using several layers. Save it. Open it and start an action this way: Flatten, Select-All, Copy, Close, Open Template, Load selection 1, Past-Into, Edit-Load Selection 2, Past into and so forth.
Design the card in Photoshop by all means but then simply insert it into a template in a layout program. (Yes even Word!) Also Avery provide their own printing software to use your design in (although I never tried it).
When I was lecturing in Photoshop, part of the deal was that I had to give Word training as well. Although overloaded with functions, the much-maligned (MS=bad?) program is capable of a great deal of useful work. There’s a lot of snobbishness here.
Because the poster wanted to know how to do it in PS.
After having the card designed one can use several Layer Combs and show them to a customer. Use the action and print 10 samples in no time.
That’s another reason
Jun 8, 2004
Although overloaded with functions, the much-maligned (MS=bad?) program is capable of a great deal of useful work. There’s a lot of snobbishness here.
Not at all – Word is a *word processor* (which means creating and editing text), not a page layout application. No matter how many (out-of-tune) bells and whistles Microsoft might add you can’t escape this simple truth, that the program is not meant to do half of what people expect it to.
Hello. my question is about printing business cards from photoshop. I have
and hp printer. And I want print my card design on the avery card paper that I brought. But what I dont understand is how do I go about setting up the page and photoshop to print out my card design on every card on the avery business card paper. I dont think there is and option for buisness cards but i do have the option for landscape and portrait. Do i need additional software? If anyone can point to a tutorial or give a detailed desription I would be grateful for any help
You can deisgn cards and such in layout programs sure.
Personally I just went to great lengths over the weekend to format a quad fold card in Photoshop, well…..because I’d rather design in Photoshop that in either of my DTP programs. I saved it as a PDF and then printed from Acobat Reader.
So yeah….. I too would like to see some templates. (I’m a web person, and not much experience with print, so it’s not something I do easily on my own.)
I’m just comfortable in Photoshop, the layout apps are fine, but just not as …..ummm..errr…..comfortable.
I do exactly what HO explained. PS only prints a single image in the centre of the page. No automatic two-sided (duplex) capability either. I have a couple of printers, and each one has slightly different print areas because of their different rollers, and you may need to make a template to match the "beginning" print position for your specific printer. The slightest hiccough (hiccup) in the paper feed is disatrous.
I’ve also found that Avery Business Cards sometimes cause bleeding and make small print rather blurry. I have greater success without pre-cut (perforated) cards, and don’t mind using a trimmer.
Okay, you guys want to hear a really stupid, yet effective way of designing your own template that works? LOL Sorry to post this, but this was the only thing I could come up with and believe it or not, it worked.
Take the first page of your business package, take a marker and outline the perforations… then scan it in as a JPG. Open it, design the first card to fit one of the squares. Hide your "template", merge visible, and duplicate the layer for however many cards you need on the page. Show the template again and drag each layer into each area. Hide the template again and print.
This is the "idiot’s" way of doing it, but it works. This was an effective way of getting the job done without killing your brain. 🙂
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