Stone Riley's Magic Mirror Tarot Set
Help With Printing

Notes:
If you're having trouble setting up the margins (like, if the edges of an image get cut off) please see the section Page Set-Up Specifications below.
If you want to make real actual cards please see the section Making Real Actual Cards below.

Printing The Easy Way

1.	Turn on your printer and put some paper in it.  Use white letter size paper.  Letter size is 8.5 x 11 inches, the standard size in the United States.
2.	Go to a screen that shows the image you want by itself in full size.  For example, to print a card first go to the "Main Window" for one of the decks then click on one of the image icons.  A new window should then open showing the image you requested large and by itself.
3.	When you have a screen with the image large and by itself, click on the Print button.  You might have to click on File first, then Print.   These buttons are probably on a tool bar at the top of the window.   I wish I could tell you exactly where they are but it's different on different computers.
4.	If some other windows appear, proceed through them in a normal way.  For example, there might be a window asking you to select a printer.
5.	Your printer should print the image you requested.  Is it satisfactory?   If it is, you can ignore all the other stuff on this page and just follow the same process with any other images you want.
6.	If the right edge or bottom edge is cut off, or if the image is broken up on several pages, see the section Page Set-Up Specifications below.

Black And White?
Were you trying to print a color image and it came out black and white?  First question:  Is your printer able to print colors?  Second question: Are you out of ink?  If those are both okay, then your printer is probably currently switched to a black and white setting.  You need to find a window where you can change this.  Try looking for a button that says Printer Settings or maybe Preferences. or maybe Properties.   This button might be in the little window that appears when you click on File or it might be in the window where you are supposed to select a printer.  Good luck.

Changing The Format
This program tries earnestly to print the images as large as possible on the center of a letter size page.  (If necessary, see Page Set-Up Specifications below.)  But this might not be what you want.   For example, you might want to make a greeting card with one of the images on the front.  You need to position the image at a certain place on the paper and make it a certain size.  Believe me, I sympathize but this program can't do that.  However, there is hope.  See the section Using Other Software below.

Page Set-Up Specifications
The table below shows the page set-up specs to use when you have an enlargement window open and want to print the image.   You can probably get a window for entering these specifications in the enlargement window by clicking File then Page Setup.  Or something like that.   Anyway, you can probably check how it looks by clicking File then Print Preview.   This information in this table should help if the right or bottom edge is getting cut off.  It is also very important if you're making actual cards because you'll want to turn the pages over and print the card backs.   You must get the image centered exactly on the page (within 1 tenth of an inch of perfectly centered) to print the backs correctly.  Also empty out any request to print a heading or footing, like if "page 1" or something is mysteriously appearing on the top or bottom of the page.

Stone Riley's Magic Mirror Tarot Set Page Set-Up Specs When Printing
Image	Paper Size	Orientation	Left Margin	Right Margin	Top Margin	Bottom Margin
Individual cards	Letter size	Portrait	1.25 in.	1.25 in.	1.3 in.	1.3 in.
Print sheets For do-it-yourself card construction	Letter size	Portrait	1.15 in.	1 in.	.75 in.	.5 in.
Packaging Images For do-it-yourself box construction	Letter size	Portrait	.5 in.	.5 in.	.5 in.	.5 in.
New Modern Art: The Theory In A Nutshell	Letter size	Landscape	.5 in.	.5 in.	.5 in.	.5 in.
Documents (this one you're looking at for instance)	As desired	As desired	As desired	As desired	As desired	As desired

Making Real Actual Cards

1.	Get the heaviest white paper you can find.  If it's labeled as 110 pounds that should be thick enough for cards that you can actually use, especially if you also laminate them.
2.	Use a good printer.  It should be good enough to print reasonably sharp photographs.   If you don't have one maybe a friend of yours does.
3.	Print out the print sheets you want.  These are the images near the bottom of the "Main Window" for each of the two decks.  They are designed to come out the actual size of real actual cards with four cards per page.  Make sure to get them exactly centered on the pages by setting the margins as described above.  Really, seriously, especially with the Spirit Hill Deck, make sure you get them within a tenth of an inch of being centered both vertically and horizontally.   Do this by tweaking your margin specs.
4.	Pick up the sheets, turn them over and put them in again to print the backs.  Be sure to turn them over correctly so the backs will be positioned correctly.  With the Spirit Hill deck, where the backs are not symmetrical, this also gets the backs right side up.  With most printers this means you turn the sheets left to right rather than top to bottom.
5.	Print the sheet called Print Sheet 22.  This is the image of the card backs.  Print it once to make sure you're right side up (for Spirit Hill) and also look through the paper toward a light to make sure it's properly positioned vis a vis the fronts.  When it looks good, print Sheet 22 again for every page.
6.	Laminate the pages.  This is optional of course but it adds greatly to the practicality of your cards.  You can maybe buy plastic laminating sheets designed for letter size paper, or you might have to use the kind that comes on a roll.  Follow manufacturer's directions.  Good luck.  Of course you'll mess some up at first.
7.	Cut the cards out of the sheets.  Don't use scissors unless you have astonishingly steady hands.  Instead, get one or two cheap transparent plastic rulers and an X-Acto knife and some extra blades at an art supply or office supply store.  Don't cut off your fingers.  At any rate, don't bleed on the work.  And consider buying a rubber cutting mat instead of scratching up your (or your old lady's) nice kitchen table.  Believe me, you'll be sorry if you do that.
8.	Ease the corners of the cards.  In other words, cut off a tiny nick on every corner.  This prevents the lamination from separating there.   If the lamination does separate at the corner of a card, you can just apply a tiny drop of Elmer's glue (or etc.) and squeeze it back together.
9.	Ease the burr.  In other words, take some kind of tool with a rounded end and run it hard on all the cut edges on both sides.  This prevents the cards from sticking together when you handle them.
10.	Show them off to all your friends.  Say I sent you.  And thank you very much.

Using Other Software
If you can't get satisfactory results with this program, here's some suggestions.

    Type 1: Word Processing Software
If you have good word processing skills, and if you have a decent program, you can probably get excellent results by downloading the picture you want from this site and then embedding it in a word processing document.  (See the  Help With Downloading document for instructions.)  However, you probably don't want to download from a screen where an image is shown very small because that's probably a small thumbnail image.

    Type 2: Photo Software
Most home computers nowadays have a software program for handling photographs.  If you download images from this site into a folder on your computer, you can then treat that folder just like a disk of photographs.  The program will probably let you format the images any way you like on the printed page.  It will probably have some ability to crop and cut and paste.  If you don't have this kind of program you can probably get one pretty cheap either in an office supply or computer store or download one from the web.  If you get some photos developed onto CD, you might even get a program free right on that disk.

    But In Any Case . . .
Please give me credit for the work.  For example, if you're making a greeting card, you could put "Painting by Stone Riley" on the back.   Since I'm asking you to, you actually have a legal obligation to do this.   And if you're in doubt, please read the  Copyright Information  document on this disk.  Thanks.

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