Hybrid Scrapping

[ktanneh]

Is there a good place that anyone knows of where you can get hybrid pages printed? I've tried a couple of places and they keep wanting to enlarge it which then takes out the shape of the page. My printer doesn't have the quality I want to do these kinds of projects.

Any ideas? I appreciate any help!!!!

Thanks!
KTAnne

[BethRimmer]

I print my own, but what if you put your layouts/ pages on an 81/2 x 11 inch document, and ask the service to print out the 8 1/2 by 11 inch page..then they won't have to change it???

[erica922]

I always use this site here, is in Boca Raton, Florida
cause I am close and they printed some mini tin albums for me, and they look good
http://www.sbtoshare.com/


hope that helps

[Glenda Ketcham]

Actually, most photo printing places that I know of do not print on 8.5x11. Their normal paper size is 4x6, 5x7, 8x10, 11x14 and so on. Some places do have 8x8 size paper now. The size of print paper you want would depend on the size of your shaped scrapbook page. From experience I've found the easiest way and the least confusing for the people doing the printing, since usually all they know how to do is press buttons . . . is to make your document one of the standard photo sizes. For instance, if your album page is 4.5x5.5, then you would need to make your document 5x7, then drag your album page onto the 5x7 document.

When you take in a document to be printed that is an odd size, you need to tell the print person "no crop" on the photo. For instance if you took in a scrapbook page that is sized 4.5x5.5, then you would tell them you want it printed on 5x7 paper, no crop. The "no crop" terminology tells them you don't want the document stretched to fit the paper. You might even tell them there WILL be white space.

But, trust me, it's just easier to drag your scrapbook page onto the standard size print paper. Every time Sam's Club changes people working behind the photo counter I have to "re-train" them! LOL.

[seebee]

What I like to do when I need something printed in a non-standard size is to drop it onto a larger standard size file, like Glenda mentioned, then add the word "trimspace" up to the edges of the file. I think it's really a matter of machines cropping & enlarging files, because if they see white space, they translate that as "no photo information" and they crop in tighter to fill the print.

For instance, I get 11.3 inch x 12 inch layouts printed (for my Creative Memories books, which were not true 12 x 12 until recently) by creating in that size, then creating a new white 12 x 12 document. I drop the thinner layout onto the 12 x 12 and use the text tool to add the word "trimspace" into the leftover white area. This tricks the computer into thinking it's information worth printing (or lets whoever's running the machine know not to crop), and I just trim off the extra at home.

Coincidentally I've just uploaded a set of Quickpages for our the new "Kate" chipboard album that we're carrying, and I included the pages already on 8 x 10 inch files, for just this reason. (I don't have a decent photo printer. :D) Here's what the 8 x 10s look like:


After it's printed, you'd just take an exacto knife to trim the excess.

[ktanneh]

Great ideas!!! Thank you so much!!! I'm going to try to get them reprinted. I'm so excited on the hybrid stuff I can't wait to do more!!

Thanks again!!!
Kathy

[Glenda Ketcham]

That's a great idea, Chris, to actually print a word or words on the "white space" to trick the computer. I never thought of that. Your idea of providing the chipboard album page on an 8x10 document is a great idea, too. You're just full of good ideas! LOL.

[wilma730]

I'm getting interested in this, but isn't all that trimming a lot of wasted paper. I plan on printing my own.

[lorig]

Originally Posted by wilma730

I'm getting interested in this, but isn't all that trimming a lot of wasted paper. I plan on printing my own.

All that trimming can mean lots of wasted paper. One trick I like to do is to put the page on a larger canvas (Just like Glenda and Chris) however, I then fill the whitespace with other projects. For example if I am printing a 6x6 page I will put it on an 8x10 canvas and add a 4x6 and some 2x3 prints (wallet pictures for grandma and grandpa). In the end I have very little if any white space left to trim off.

[seebee]

Originally Posted by wilma730

I'm getting interested in this, but isn't all that trimming a lot of wasted paper. I plan on printing my own.

Yes, but when you don't have a printer at home, sending it out to print on a standard size photo, and trimming, is the only option.

I just ordered some prints for my second (not quite up in the store as I type) Quickpage album for the Jack album today. Since the Jack one is smaller, I was able to get it on 5 x 7s, so it was a little less expensive. (I think each print was about 38 cents from my local Sam's.) So, the 12 prints came out to about $4, I think.

BTW, the albums I've been creating DO have each layout by itself, which allows you to create your own document size to drop it onto, and therefore print as many LOs as you can fit on a page on your own printer. The "trimspace" layouts are just another option for us poor photo-printerless folk. :D