I'm only trying to make a first draft of my invite templates but i'm already close to screaming or crying over this.
The printer is ridiculous. I have a graphic that goes right to the edge but it won't print to the edge and so it moves everything over a little bit and cuts off some words when I try to print already cut paper.
So, then I tried a regular size sheet of paper. It gives me absolutely no options at all to set the margins. Or should I say... when I change them, it ignores my commands and does what it feels like. It only prints in the dead center of the page and will not print with the insert starting at the edge. It is impossible to measure and cut this way. I can cut vertically or horizontally but then I lose the crop marks and it doesn't tell me how far up or down it moved the bottom of the image towarsd the center so I don't know where to cut it the other way.
I'm using regular printer paper and a heavy duty professional paper cutter from work. The cutter is the kind that has a blade you slide rather than the kind that comes down. I can't cut in straight lines. It keeps tearing the paper and even though I try really hard to line everything up, no matter what I do, it's not straight. In addition, if I try to print more than one to a page, the printer leaves only a .5 gap inbetween and the cutter cannot cut a .5 gap. it just bends and tears the paper so that doesn't work either.
Nothing I've cut is straight or looks good in any way at all. How the hell does anyone do this?