Printer Setup and Margins
You can check the printer settings and printer margins before designing your custom layout. To do this, click on the Printer Setup button, and the Printer Setup dialog will be displayed. Select the required printer from the dropdown list. If your printer isn’t listed, you may need to install the printer drivers first
Paper Size & Other Settings
Click on the Setup Printer button to select the page size, print orientation, print resolution, and other printer settings (for example enabling 2” cutting (for 2”×6” strips) if supported by your printer).
Print Orientation
Click on the Portrait or Landscape radio buttons to change the printer page orientation.
Automatic Margins
If the selected printer is setup with a page size of 4”×6” and a print resolution of 300 DPI or 600 DPI (most professional dyesub printers support this), the Center page button will be enabled. You can press this button to setup the margins to center the page in the printable area. This should produce correctly centered prints with most printers.
Manually Setting Margins
You can manually set your margins by making a test print. Click on the Test Print button to print a margin test page. The examples below are from a DNP DS40 printer.
In the enlarged view of the top margin shown below, the top margin can be read off the ruler as 14 pixels:
And in the enlarged view of the bottom margin shown below, the bottom margin can be read off the ruler as 26 pixels:
Check the top, left, right, and bottom margins and enter the values in the printer setup dialog.