Printing Greeting Cards

In Iphoto '08 it was easy to print a perfect greeting card. In Iphoto '09, though, I don't see greeting card as one of the formatting options. I looked in help and saw that a greeting card could be created for purchase ($$$) and then printed, but it prints out wrong -- it seems to be sized for bigger than 8.5x11 card paper, with no obvious way to change the printer settings. So the photo comes out uncentered, and overlapping half an inch past the crease down the middle. There is also a nice grey apple on the back and "printed on a mac" or some such, but the formatting looks just awful. Surely there must be some simple way to print a photo properly onto the front of a greeting card!

1.8 GHz PowerPC G5, Mac OS X (10.5.8)

Posted on Nov 17, 2009 10:09 AM

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Nov 17, 2009 10:51 AM in response to Mom0990

it seems to be sized for bigger than 8.5x11 card paper, with no obvious way to change the printer settings. So the photo comes out uncentered, and overlapping half an inch past the crease down the middle.


This should be fixable with the page set up in the Print Dialogue.

There is also a nice grey apple on the back and "printed on a mac" or some such, but the formatting looks just awful.


You can prevent the Apple logo etc from appearing: Click on the settings button and uncheck the 'Include Apple Logo...' option.

Regards

TD

Dec 15, 2009 6:37 PM in response to Mom0990

I was having the same issue. But I learned that I can order 5" by 7" greeting card stock with print to the edge borders. The paper is 8.5" by 11" but has removable edges that leave a 10" by 7" printed area that folds to a 5" by 7" greeting card. I think this will work with iPhoto directly, or you can print from a PDF in Preview (probably a better option). You can order this paper in several varieties from www.desktopsupplies.com.

Hope this helps.

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