[UK-CONTEST] Some clever chappy is bound to know

[Tom Wylie]

Having had a bad week at work, I thought I'd treat myself to a new 
printer this morning.   I have a monochrome laser
but thought I'd tart up my QSL labels by adding a wee touch of colour.   
Being Scottish I didnt want to spend a lot of money
so I bought an HP PSC 1410 in a sale.     Works fb.

Now then.   I set it up to print labels using my trust BV7 from Bernd 
DF3CB.    I set the Avery Number to 3 x 7    63.5 x 38.1
as per my laser and printed of a whole page of labels onto a clean sheet 
of paper - same size as the labels page.

After a bit of fiddling with the margins,  I got the labels all centred 
up and saved the settings.

I put in a sheet of labels and woops - the setting had altered to a very 
small margin at the top of the page, so all the labels were
not in their square - if you know what I mean.    Darn I must have 
changed something.    Re-set all the setrting, reprinted with another 
sheet of paper, hold it up to the light, yup all nicely in the label 
area.     Insert another sheet of labels - bugger the top margin has
shrunk again.   Stick in a sheet of ordinary paper - yes the labels 
print properly.    Stick in another label sheet - top margin
has gone to buggery.

Back to the drawing board.   Check setting for margins, paper size, type 
of paper, print size, label size, label code, drink a cup of coffee, 
calm down and try again on a clean sheet of paper.   Beautiful 
labels.    Stick in a sheet of labels - yup you guessed it - the top 
margin has shrunk again.

This is where it gets interesting.   I think I am loosing my mind.    
This time, I put in a sheet of paper, a sheet of labels, a sheet of 
paper and finally another sheet of labels.

Yup you got it - the paper print is very fb with the labels in the right 
place on the sheet and the margins fb,   the label sheets - the top 
margin has mysteriously shrunk and I lost another 2 sheets of labels.......

Now it is afternoon,   I have used half a box of labels and still 
getting nowhere.   I am tempted to throw the printer through the 
window.     Apart from rolling on the floor laughing and slapping your 
thighs, does anybody have any serious
suggestions of what I should try next or where I am going wrong.

The labels print OK on my laser......... :-(


Tom

GM4FDM