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I'd print first - cutting is annoying, but it seems less fraught with potential error than having to line up the printer perfectly. Then again, I'm a bit more comfortable with paper cutters than with manual feed prints of smaller sizes. :)
I also printed first, then cut. Lining up the printer is much more difficult for me! Good luck!
As long as your printer will accept the paper, print (with crop marks) then cut! It's the best way to go.
Print first and you could try taking some to a kinkos or copy center with a big chop cutter and they can cut it in one fell swoop.I would try it with a small bunch first, in case there is a mistake, you wouldn't want all of them to be messed up. Or take it to Kinkos and use their big DIY rotary cutter y (in the copy area) yourself.
i put in light gray crop lines on my design, and printed first. i think it worked out much better that way... plus i feel like most home printers work better (aka, print straighter) with larger pieces of paper. i didn't want to feed a bunch of tiny pieces through one by one. :)
All of my paper came to me pre-cut. My printer did well with the 6.5x4.5 printing. Just make sure that you set your paper size and hit borderless printing. It took me a couple test pages but it eventually worked.
Once I got the hang of the paper set up the rsvps and direction cards were a breeze.
Print first. Definitely. Then go to Kinko's or Staples or any other printer/copier place and spend the $10 or so to get them all cut at once with their giant electronic cutter. SO worth it.
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Print First!!! Especially if you want to go right up the the edge of the paper.
Just repeating what's said here -- print first. I even have a photo printer and tried using the borderless option -- I could NOT get it to work ever for this. It was really frustrated. Just do lots of measuring and make the cutting really clear. I took all my printed stuff to OfficeMax and got it cut for around $25 total. :)
Best of luck!
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Hey Everyone
I'm using 289 grams/m² cardstock for my invites.
My invitation size is 5x7. Do you recommend cutting the paper into 5x7 sheets first and then printing them OR just printing the invites and then cutting them?
I've tried both methods but
1) printing first and then cutting requires a lot of cutting! I can't stand rigid lines! and 2) cutting first means that every single sheet has to be perfectly lined in my printer. I have a border around my design so I know I'm going to mess up a lot! Any advice would be much appreciated!
Thanks in advance!!
J
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