[moneydance] printing partial page of checks

[Edward Reid]

Certainly there are some printers which tell you always to feed paper with 
the long edge parallel to the paper motion. For example, my HP1320 prints 
happily on 3x5 index cards, but I had the devil of a time setting it up the 
first time because I was trying to put the 5" edge in. Very likely on many 
printers you will find that it works the other way as long as you lie to 
the printer about what size paper you are feeding, but if you have problems 
and call the printer manufacturer, the only help they will give you is to 
say "don't do that".

And if you lie to the printer about what size paper you are feeding, and 
the missing part of the sheet is "printed" on, then laser printers may 
sometimes waste toner and/or get the inside of the printer dirty, or leave 
loose toner on later pages, due to collecting toner on the drum and then 
having no paper to transfer it to. Probably the better modern printers have 
sensors to avoid this -- but they may also signal a fault when they sense 
the condition.

I don't have a good answer for you. I was down to half a dozen Quicken 
checks when my bank started offering online banking for free, and that 
brought my check-writing at home down to one or two a month, so I stopped 
printing checks. It was a short time later that I switched to MD.

Edward
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