Print help
The questions people ask a print shop, answered in plain words: the scale setting, the paper, both sides of the sheet, cutting cards apart, and the ink.
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Print a PDF at actual size, not "fit to page"
Why the default setting shrinks your sheet and moves every margin, where the setting hides in each app, and how to check with a ruler.
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Letter or A4: which paper you have, and why it matters
The two sizes side by side, how to tell which is in your tray, and what goes wrong when the file and the paper disagree.
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What paper to print on, and when copier paper is not enough
Which sheets want heavier stock, why US pound weights cannot be compared and gsm can, and how to find out what your printer will feed.
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Printing on both sides without getting the back upside down
Long edge or short edge for portrait and landscape pages, and the one-sheet test for a printer that cannot turn the paper itself.
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Cutting cards from a full sheet
How to read the cut marks, which tool gives the cleanest edge, the order to cut in, and the envelope each card fits.
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Printing with less ink
The light-ink theme, why a tinted page costs more than a page of lines, and the three print settings that matter.