Accurately Print New Year's Cards with CorelDRAW

The New Year's New Year is approaching. New Year's postcards have also been on the market. Greeting cards from relatives and friends are an important means of expressing friendship. Handwritten Chinese New Year cards are both costly and aesthetically unacceptable. Printing with a computer can be a multiplier. However, it is not easy to overprint the congratulatory text, postal code, and address on greeting cards or postcards (especially zip codes). It is not easy to do so. Here's how you use CorelDRAW to accurately overprint a New Year's card to ensure that you are 100 satisfied.

1) Scan the greeting card or postcard to be overprinted into the computer. If you don't have a scanner at hand, you might as well go to a friend with a scanner to help you. Scanned greeting cards or postcards of the year only serve as template, so it doesn't matter if it is rough.

2. Import the scanned greeting card or year postcard image file into CorelDRAW (versions 5:0 to 9:0), layout size is A5 (vertical), do not have to be the size of the postcard, the key is to print The edge of the imported picture is aligned with the upper left edge of the layout. In order to make a white postcard have a clear border, a dark paper substrate can be used for scanning and the image can be cropped to an edge. Alignment of borders is the key to overprinting accuracy and must be dealt with carefully.

3 Enter text in the picture. If necessary, you can also add patterns or other pictures. Carefully adjust the format and position of the text until you are satisfied. The above adjustments are made in the positive direction for easy viewing. However, because the postcard is too narrow, horizontal jam occurs in the printer, so it can only print vertically. For this reason, after the text editing is completed, the graphics should be rotated 90 degrees. At this time, all the graphics should be aligned with the left and top two boundaries of the layout.

4 Select the text and graphics you want to print (do not select a postcard image), and set the print item to "Print Selection", so that you can only print additional text or patterns for overprinting purposes. In order not to mistakenly print the bottom of the postcard, if necessary, check the printed content by previewing it.

5  The postcard is to enter the printer immediately on the left vertical edge. Because the postcards are thick and inconvenient, the printer's paper feeding direction is best set to straight forward.

6) After a New Year's postcard is printed, if you want to print different content (such as zip code, address, name, etc.), just change the text in the corresponding position, and the text format (including font, size, etc.) of step 3 will be Staying the same, there is no need to typeset again.

(Jiangsu Chensui Song)
Source: Computer News, Electronic Edition