I have used page setup to create a 6.5 x 9.5 layout in Pages that I want to print on an envelope.
When I preview or print to a PDF it looks fine, but when I actually try to print it, it tries to print it on an 8.5 x 11 sheet of paper with two inches of extra white space at the top. Tried creating a 6.5 x 9.5 envelope preset in the printer dialog but still seems to print not right. I am trying to print to a Brother MCF8840 D printer.
Thanks
Steve
Do you have Comments turned on when you use the Envelope document?
Does your Printer driver have the specific envelope size?
Do you have the correct orientation to the paper feed?
Peter
No - Comments are not turned on. No - Printer driver does not have the specific envelope size. Yes - correct orientation.
Just printing down too low on the paper.
Is there a better way or program to do this other than Pages?
There are specific envelope printing programs. Do a search for envelope and Macos on the Internet and you should get some hits.
Thanks - I know that but they are usually for addressing envelopes for mailing. I am basically trying to print a form onto an envelope to use for clients internally in my workflow.
FWIW, I abandoned the quite efficient "specialized printing programs for envelopes" which I had used for at least 15 of the 27 years I've had my treasured Macs . . . because Pages (and its Templates) came along. Does everyone who needs to have access to printing your "form onto an envelope to use for clients" have access to Pages?
The initial design of a personalized template may be complex, but once you start with a page layout blank, all the bells-and-whistles in Pages makes almost anything possible – down to fractions of an inch. It's typical "Mac": everything you want to accomplish is probably "in there" you just have to find it in sometimes collapsed/buried menus. For example: the Small Caps font adjustment is @ Pages Menu––>FORMAT––>FONT––>CAPITALIZATION––>SMALL CAPS. The set-up effort is worth the future usability, IMHO.
I have temps for envelopes from Monarch to Nr. 10 to catalogue sizes w/ and w/o return addresses, logos etc. etc., mail labels etc. I can even print personalized checks (wallet/ledger/etc) from my Pages Templates.
Yes, it is designed nicely in Pages but there is a problem with printing. Probably related to the printer driver because it shows up properly in the Preview and if I print to a PDF.
Ooops.
I should have read more adroitly the specifics in your query. I'm only 82, so at times that's a problem 😊.
Good luck
How to print to 6.5 x 9.5 envelopes
