Put an End to Cut Off Text

If your printed text is cutting off or printing in the wrong direction, you may have overlooked setting Portrait or Landscape orientation in your software, your print driver, or both. In this article, you’ll learn how to print cards that are vertically or horizontally orientated by choosing the correct setting in your software and in your print driver.

Step 1: Set Up Your Document in Your Software:

When printing on rectangular paper and card stock, you will need to decide if you want to print in Portrait or Landscape mode. Will your card be “tall” (portrait) or “wide” (landscape)? Your decision will impact your document setup in your word processing or page layout program as shown below in these Microsoft Word documents.

Instructions for Microsoft Word:

Step 2: Loading the Paper

Whether your paper will be printed in Landscape mode or in Portrait mode, in most situations it is correct to load rectangular paper with the shorter edge first as pictured.

Step 3: Print Driver Setup:

Your printer can print in either Portrait mode (left-right printing) or Landscape mode (top-bottom printing):

In Step 1, you chose the way you will be printing your paper, so apply the same Portrait or Landscape selection here. Communicate this to the printer by entering your printer driver (specific to your printer make and model):

Understanding Landscape and Portrait printing will allow you more creative freedom in printing invitations. We hope that choosing the correct mode for your print job will eliminate any problems with cut off text or text printing in the wrong direction, but if you have any further questions, please get in touch with us so we can try to help.

Still need help? See other common printing problems and get our best advice:

• Printing Invitations? How To Create A Custom Document Size
• How do I enter a custom paper size in my print driver?
• Can’t enter custom paper size in your printer driver? Download new printer driver
• Can my printer handle the card size I want to print?
• What is the appropriate paper thickness for my printer?
• Should I adjust Paper Type in my print driver to print specialty paper?
• Paper jam? Are you printing from the correct paper tray?
• When printing invitations should scaling be turned on?
• My invitation card is printing off-center. What can I do?