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holding the two sheets in front of a light so that the printed label on the plain paper underneath
is visible. This should help prevent you from wasting custom paper stock tracking down your
printer's alignment problems.
If you haven't run the Printer Calibration Wizard yet, try it as well. It prints an alignment test
sheet that can help you determine whether or not your printer has enough calibration error to
require alignment adjustments. You can launch the Printer Calibration Wizard from the File
menu.
For more information on setting your printer's alignment, see theThe_Printer_Alignment_Dialog
Printer Alignment dialog.
Help Contents
The Printer Alignment Dialog
Printers are imprecise beasts. You can tell them to print something exactly 1.2 inches from the
top of the paper, but chances are, it'll end up being more like 1.1 or 1.28 inches from the top.
The older your printer gets, the more likely this is to occur, as all the little mechanical bits that
escort paper into and out of the printer get worn out. You're not likely to notice this flaw when
you're printing, say, a resumé. And if your interviewer is measuring the margins on your
resumé, you may be happier elsewhere anyway. But when you're printing CD labels on a pre-
cut form, every millimeter matters. (That's why millimeters would rather be on a CD label than
a plain sheet of paper - they like to feel important.) If your printer is a millimeter awry on a CD
label, you'll get a millimeter of white, unprinted space on your label. It won't look good.
If your printer is consistently wrong, which is often the case, you can use the Printer Offsets
section of this dialog to correct it. If the printer always prints a millimeter to the right of where
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