I don't think I'm doing this right?

[dneill]

Just got my UGC's in today. I tried printing out this Zelda cover and it seems to have a gap on both side's, so I don't think im printing it out correctly. I looked at the FAQ board but all the walkthroughs seem to be for Windows, and I have a MAC. I was able to print the Sega CD labels right from the Picture viewer app on my MAC and they were nice and snug in the DVD's cases, but I'm pretty sure I'm doing something wrong with these UGC print outs. I have a picture below for example.

[sniperlobster]

Are you using Legal Sized paper?

[dneill]

I'm using Letter sized paper which is 8 1/2 by 11, I think.

[Zalovar]

That's the problem, gotta use legal size paper and then set the borders to 0.5 inches.

[sniperlobster]

Yeah unless you have a TRUE borderless printer, letter size is going to be too small for UGC. DVD & DS cases print fine on letter paper though.

[dneill]

Awesome! Thanks so much for the help! Pretty excited to get these printed out and displayed.

[FritzWhite]

There are two kinds of UGCs with different size cover sleeves. When I printed out 0.5 borders on legal paper, the covers came out too big. If that's the case (no pun intended), try 0.8 margins.

[Dravenae]

If all you have is A4, you can print with that no problem. You don't *NEED* legal sized paper.

In paint center your image, set all margins to 3, and then set it to print on one page. If your using paint, that changes from operating system to operating system. Paint in XP compared to Vista or Windows 7's is different, but the method generally stays the same, only the names will change (Yes... I just went Bon Jovi on your ass!).

If your a MAC user, then I'm not sure. I not a MAC user.

[Seraph Man]

If all you have is A4, you can print with that no problem. You don't *NEED* legal sized paper.

In paint center your image, set all margins to 3, and then set it to print on one page. If your using paint, that changes from operating system to operating system. Paint in XP compared to Vista or Windows 7's is different, but the method generally stays the same, only the names will change (Yes... I just went Bon Jovi on your ass!).

If your a MAC user, then I'm not sure. I not a MAC user.

A4 is the european standard size. State-side, we don't have A4. Instead, we get the choice of letter, which is too small, or legal, which lacks variety.

[wiggy]

There are plenty of other sizes available here, they'll just require trimming. Stuff like tabloid (11x17), A3 (~13x19), etc.

[Dravenae]

What Wiggy said. A3 = 2 A4's.

[Dravenae]

Hold on... Wait... If you have A3 surely its more cost effective to buy, lets say 100 sheets of A3 cut them in half, then have 200 sheets of A4 paper, rather than buying 100 sheets of legal sized paper? Less waste as well!

Correct me if I'm wrong.

EDIT: If 13x19 is correct, half or that is bigger than A4 still.

[wiggy]

Yup, that's what I do and have preached it forever. Way cost effective, plus you get 3 DS covers from a sheet of A3. Extra bonus!

[Spoonman]

Ok I have a related question here.  I've been using legal paper to make all my covers and everything is going great.  But I've hit a snag with just 2 covers and it seems to be with only these 2.  I'll try not to be confusing in my description here.

I print much more simply than most of you I think.  I just open up the covers in Preview, choose legal size paper, and print to 99% scale (newer UGCs, don't fit at 100%).

So that works fine for me, but with SMW 2 Yoshi's Island, when I go to print it in Preview, instead of scaling it to like 84% or whatever the others are on regular paper, it's like 21%.  So when I change it to 99%, it blows up the image so huge that it's just a small portion of the cover at a huge scale that prints on my legal sheet. 

My guess is maybe this cover was made and saved at a much higher resolution or scale to begin with than the others?  So when I download it, the image is like 5x bigger than the other covers?  Anyone had this problem before?

[Nacho3]

A few of the covers I have downloaded from the site are like that  Usually it's because the resolution is not set at 300 dpi and can be easily changed in Photoshop.