.0625 shift when printing, again...
I know this topic has come up before; I've walked through a dozen threads on it, but I'm still not convinced that the "acceptable margin for error on your printer" is the answer. Quick walk-through:
- Printing playing cards, two rows of four on 8.5x11 paper. I have one document for the fronts, one for the back.
- I'm not having the printer print double sided -- I print one side, feed the paper back through to print the other side.
- I printed hundreds of sheets like this over the past three months while prototyping a game. The front and back aligned every time with such a small margin for error that it was unnoticeable when the cards were cut out.
- Installed InDesign on a new laptop and can't get a single front and back aligned now. This includes files that I produced on the old machine which previously lined up perfectly.
- It's incredibly consistent -- there's an additional .0625 inch to the right margin on the landscaped pages. And it's .0625 every time. Someone made the comment that if you print front/back 10 times you'll get 8 variations. Point taken, but not happening here. The change is extremely consistent.
It seems like I must have a setting in InDesign adding that extra bit of margin to both new and old documents at print time, but I can't find it anywhere. Copying my print profile summary below and would certainly appreciate any guesses or insights that people have to offer.
Print Preset: 8 Card Spread
Printer: HPFD7EB5 (HP ENVY 4500 series)
PPD: N/A
PPD File: N/A
General
Copies: 1
Collate: N/A
Reverse Order: Off
Pages: All
Sequence: All Pages
Spreads: Off
Print Master Pages: Off
Print Layers: Visible & Printable Layers
Print Non-printing Objects: Off
Print Blank Pages: Off
Print Visible Guides and Baseline Grids: Off
Setup
Paper Size: Letter
Paper Width: 8.5 in
Paper Height: 11 in
Page Orientation: Landscape
Paper Offset: N/A
Paper Gap: N/A
Transverse: N/A
Scaling: 100%
Constrain Proportions: On
Page Position: Centered
Thumbnails: Off
Tiling: Off
Marks and Bleed
Crop Marks: Off
Bleed Marks: Off
Registration Marks: Off
Color Bars: Off
Page Information: Off
Printer Mark Type: Default
Crop Mark Weight: 0.25 pt
Mark Offset from Page: 0 in
Use Document Bleed Settings: Off
Bleed Top: 0 in
Bleed Bottom: 0 in
Bleed Left: 0 in
Bleed Right: 0 in
Include Slug Area: Off
Output
Color: Composite RGB
Text As Black: Off
Trapping: N/A
Flip: N/A
Negative: N/A
Screening: N/A
Simulate Overprint: Off
Graphics
Send Data: Optimized Subsampling
Download: N/A
Download PPD Fonts: N/A
PostScript®: N/A
Data Format: N/A
Color Management
Document Profile: sRGB IEC61966-2.1
Color Handling: Let InDesign Determine Colors
Printer Profile: Document RGB - sRGB IEC61966-2.1
Preserve RGB Numbers: Off
Proof Profile: N/A
Simulate Paper Color: N/A
Advanced
Print &as Bitmap: Off
Bitmap Resolution: N/A
OPI Image Replacement: N/A
EPS: N/A
PDF: N/A
Bitmap Images: N/A
Transparency Flattener Preset: [Medium Resolution]
Ignore Spread Overrides: Off
