How to Print Your Own Postcards
Postcards may be made from almost anything depending on what you have at hand. There was a woman who used to glue empty cigarette packets to a piece of white cardboard and attach a stamp to the back. Other travelers simply use a photo print as their postcard. There are many methods, but if you wish to print your own, here is an easy way to make them.
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Instructions
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Open a word processing program, and insert the desired photo/picture at the top of the page.
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Click on the inserted image and drag it to the desired size.
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Scroll down to the next page and using similar dimensions design the reverse side of the postcard, and describe the image in the upper left corner. Place the address information on the right. Leave room for a stamp.
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Select “File/Print/Current” and print the picture. Replace that paper in the printer. Scroll down and print the reverse side on the back of the image.
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Cut the image with the reverse side printed behind it and you have your postcard.
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Tips & Warnings
Ensure you have the rulers on the edge of your Word program to judge the sizes.
Ensure you place the second side of the paper in the printer correctly.
Use care on the printed image so as not to smudge it.
Print your postcard on cardstock paper of good quality.
- Photo Credit Mark A. Hicks
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Comments
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Christian Peper
Jun 25, 2010
Thanks for the good advice. With free speech coming under such restriction now, postcards can be used for activism. I suspect as freedom is restricted more and more the government will even begin to restrict the messages on postcards. I is refreshing that we can still make our own. The question is will anti-war postcards be stopped in the mail when the USA invades yet another country?
