WWDXC has partnered with UX5UO for QSL card printing. As there are a multitude of sources and print shops available, only a small listing will appear. Western Washington DX Club members can order cards printed with their callsign and the WWDXC Logo. But these are large (thus making the bending radii large) or expensive, so that even there, the "stick-on"/label approach is often preferred. The QSL card is a personal item and reflects the operator. for surface printing on metal or plastic signs, or of course, cardboard postcards, packaging etc. Of course, there's speciality printers, eg. That, together with the need to grab a single sheet of paper, make linear transport expensive to build. Same goes for inkjets – you need to make sure your piece of paper is 100% flat where you run the ink nozzles. Another aspect of bending the paper around rollers is that it makes it possible to put relatively long processing chains within a compact case. But setting A4 as paper size in your report, you can print out over a QSL card directly as I do with no problems.So, the fact that laser printers work so well is that you can directly roll-on the toner – that either requires a very finely tuned linear transport of the paper to be printed on (which is mechanically complex and thus expensive), or, and that's what you find in any paper printer – keeping the paper under the right tension and having another roller opposite to the toner transfering roller to which you feed the paper under an angle (so that you can keep it flat and tensioned). I will search if I can implement a better (and free) print component in the compiler. Keep in mind that the compiler of Swisslog is dated on 2001 and I have some limitations. I know that the print dialog of Swisslog doesn't offer all these possibilities and I will investigate if I can add this in a future version. You can match the printout to the source paper size or any other paper sizes.
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If you print reports defined as custom using PDF Creator, you have more control over the printout when opening the Print dialog in Acrobat. I load a pack of 9x14cm QSL cards and althoguh the report is defined as A4 it loads and print well every QSL card. I print my 9x14 cm QSL cards using this formatl. However, you can print directly QSL cards by using reports defined as A4 (like the QSL 9x14 Example 1.rpt or QSL-Card for more than QSO.rpt). I don't know why this happen! HP printers allow to define custom paper sizes on the printer profile and probably the paper size defined in the Report must match exactly the allowed paper sizes of the printer. Yes you are right! Font size is very big when printing in reports defined in Custom sizes. Resources listed under QSL Printing category belongs to Shopping and Services main collection, and get reviewed and rated by amateur radio operators. You will probably have to play a little bit with margins and do some print outs before you get your report working. Links to QSL card printers category is a curation of 43 web resources on, KB3IFH QSL Cards, Mart-Print QSL printer, NYQSL print. If this is working to you, edit the "QSL-Card for more than 1 QSO", enter report Setup and adapt the Paper Size to fit your custom paper. This is based to print on Custom Paper Size of 5.5" x 2.95". Not all printers allow this! In the QSL Cards folder you have many samples, all of them normally based to print on a A4 paper. The following examples may give you some inspiration. Most people have their own ideas for the style of their QSL cards and we can usually incorporate any ideas that you may have. RSGB recommended size for QSL cards is 140mm x 90mm. So for now I am still at a loss to get printing good from within Swisslogįirst of all you have to make sure your printer allow to print in customised paper sizes. Some example design ideas for Printed RSGB Size QSL Cards. I had read the thread you mentioned but can't see anything in there to help. I printed it via PDF Creator and all was well. I have my own commercial printing shop here on the East Coast in the capital city of Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada. QSL Cards by Welcome I am a ham operator myself and have been printing QSLs for the past seven years or so, mostly for Canadian hams, and more recently, for US hams. The printing was approximately 20 times larger than it should be and lots of the text was missing. QSL card printing, QSLs, QSL CARDS, QSL card printing, QSL PRINTING. I used an A4 sheet as I didn't want to use any more blank cards. Then VIEW REPORT ( the QSL card looked fine in the preview window). Then selected 1 QSO from the logbook view to print. Yes the printer does allow customized paper sizingīefore I tried printing the example QSL 9x14 Example 2.rpt I re booted the Laptop and printer.