Tips on Printing Your Purchased Printables

Buying printable items such as calendars, planner refills, journal pages, stationery, tables, templates, and a lot more instead of buying finished products gives creatives some room for modification and personalization. You can tweak the design, maybe add some text or images before printing and you can choose the type and color of paper you'd print on. Perhaps you've been dying to have a purple colored planner but there's none available commercially. If you can't buy one, but you can make one.

Say you decide to buy printables to build your dream planner. Here are some printing tips before you start using up your time, ink and paper:

• Test print before printing multiple copies.
• Check if your paper is thick enough so that the back side won't show through when printing on both sides.
• Printing using the "Fit/Shrink to Printable Area" may produce uneven white spaces around your printout.
• Borderless printing is a little complicated for those who don't usually print borderless and not all printers support it. Here are some things you need to remember:

• Borderless printing is only applicable to some paper sizes.
• In borderless printing, the image is enlarged to make sure that there are no white slivers on the edges. This means that a portion of the image will not show on the printout. This is not an issue if the border is just a block of color and no important elements are near the edges.
• Borderless designs look nice on print but the printing process is a little complicated. I always do test prints whenever I print borderless designs. If you can't seem to figure out how to print a borderless design, you can either take it to a print shop or continue printing with margin. 

Want to try printing your own journal pages or planners but don't know where to find the right printables? You can start searching at Etsy.