A5 card folding to A6

[Michael Graubart]

I apologise for possible duplication, but am not sure that I succeeded in posting this properly yesterday. So here it is again.

I use Photosho CS6 on a Mac with Mojave (MacOS 10.14.6).

I am creating some cards (A5 folding to A6). I want to place an image in the right-hand half of the A5 card (landscape format) with 3 mm margins all round the image, including on the left of the image when the card is folded. I have set the width and height of the canvas to 210 mm x 148 mm, respectively. When (having ensured that the image file has a duplicate layer) I set it to the right in the canvas wndow, and when the size I set for the image allows for margins all round, the right-hand edge of the image is shown in the canvas window as coinciding with the right-hand edge of the canvas. But when I print, the left edge of the image always coincides with the line of the fold in the centre of the card, leaving a 6 mm margin on the right and none on the left of the image when the card is folded.

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[Nancy OShea]

So is this roughly how your document is set up?  See screenshot.

Can you please post a screenshot of your Print Settings?

[Michael Graubart]

Dear Nancy,

My apologies for not replying sooner. Yes, that is how I want my document set up, with a text near the foot of the left-hand half (blank in your screen-shot).

I attach three screen-shots of successive stages of setting up the image and canvas sizes.

I look forward to further help.

Michael Graubart.

[Michael Graubart]

PS: Further to my previous post, with its three images: having run into the problem that was the subject of my first post in this string, I made a number of cards by manually printing that side of the card twice; first with the image in the right-hand half, then with a jpeg of the text in the left-hand half. Here is a scan of what the whole of that side of the unfolded card should look like — a result that I was hoping to achieve by printing the whole unfolded A5 card in a single printing.

[Nancy OShea]

You're over complicating things.  We just need to see your Printer Settings (Ctrl+P).

[Michael Graubart]

Dear Nancy,

I attach two screen-shots of print settings. But I confess that I do not understand how these (given that I have made the correct settings of paper size, etc.) can affect the exact placing of the image within the card, which is 1 mm too near the centre folding line, so that when folded I get margins of 1 mm (left) and 4 mm. (right). I look forward to further advice.

[Michael Graubart]

Further discovery: I have now tried reducing the width of the image in layer 1 (right-hand half of the unfolded card) by 1.5 mm (a conservative amount, but I could later try reducing it by 2 mm). Given that the placing of the image in the 'Canvas size' dialog should keep the right-hand margin unchanged, I thought that this should increase the left-hand margin. (I am less concerned with an exact placement of the small text in the left-hand half of the card in layer 2).

The result: an almost perfect placing of the image, with nearly identical left- and right-hand margins.

Could it be that the original problem lay in a mechanical imperfection of my admittedly modest domestic printer, an Epson XP-760?

[Nancy OShea]

Printer variation is always a factor.  In Print settings, you can tweak top & left position values to compensate for printer idiosyncrasies. Or as I did here, use scale to fit media.