QSL card printing
I've been looking over the QSL cards I received with the view to somehow printing on the back, given my handwriting is worse than any doctor, or spider... Like many my QSL cards have a printed back to add QSO information in predefined boxes. I thought I could probably sort out a template for Apple's Pages word processor to print the rear of a card.
Some cards I received simply have a label stuck on the rear positioned top right with all the information on. That seems typical of special event stations or, I guess people that send a lot of cards. Another example, similar to mine has a longer label with details overlaying the pre-printed boxes and having almost the same design as those boxes. I guess that makes it easy to either print a label or fill the card in by hand. Many of the cards I receive are hand written, all with far, far neater handwriting than mine!
So I wrangled Pages and got text in approximately the right places as an experiment. I figured out how to define a page size of QSL card dimensions and hit print. As expected the printer was sat waiting for the correct paper to be fed in and I had some cut to size. One sheet was duly sucked in, and... well, that's where it all went a bit sideways. Each time the paper would get stuck in the works. I tried some old QSL card stock to see if that helped. Nope, still stuck.
Oh well... I have just four cards to send and sending is a bit of a rarity. I'll put on my best fingers and try to write neatly! I could continue to battle the printer - and maybe I will but the effort is way over and above my needs for the very few cards I send.