Stationery designs and issues in printing
Stationery, as those who've designed their own know, is a case of getting accurate reproduction. Business cards, letterheads, With Compliments slips, invoices, receipts, and basic logos all involve some footwork with their print setups.

You need print templates and you need good quality reproduction, particularly with logos and letterhead colours. The simple way to do this is with dedicated graphics vector-based software. However- Everything looks good as data, but you need to see hard copy to know you've got things right.

Setting up your prints
You can do a lot with your printer to deal with the hard copy issue. Layout, fonts, and sizes of text and graphics need to be locked down, with a simple easy to use print template as the end result.

This is where your printer, your ink cartridges and your designs work together:

Start with the basic letterhead. Hit Print Preview, and see if the printer has the font and colour right. Graphic design software often uses fonts printers don't recognize and colours that don't match print parameters. It's a nuisance, but it's a fixable nuisance. You can fix it by simply adjusting to a standard font, or using a scan off your printer/scanner which will turn the font problem into an image, which should be OK.

Check the graphics element: Extract the graphics vectors, and print them off your graphics software screen to make sure they reproduce accurately. (This is done off the screen to see if the software is creating the problems.) Again, this is fixable through an image scan if necessary, although you may feel an urge to buy some new graphics software.

Testing
The next stage is getting your print template files set up for your stationery. This is really a matter of sizing and positioning. You can even do this on a Word document.