Letterhead design
Spruce up any letter with your logo. You can use HP's Letterhead Wizard for creating business or personal letterhead or you can create your own. Using your own colour inkjet printer allows flexibility -- you can produce serious business stock one day and silly letters-to-friends stationery the next. The same basic procedures apply.
Open your page-layout software or Word and do a page set up for your 8-1/2 X 11" paper: Portrait page orientation and 1" margins. Type your name, return address, email address, fax number and web site if you have one. Highlight that text and format it in the font and size you want. Position this text either at the top right or top left. Now, place the logo where you want it. If you are using Word, click INSERT, PICTURE, FROM FILE, then navigate to and click on the image of the logo you want to insert.
Putting it at the top center is quite formal and traditional, whereas the bottom corner is a little more contemporary. Try printing off some dummy letters (in greyscale to save colour ink) to make sure you have positioned everything correctly.
Save it as a template so you can use it again and again. If you are using Microsoft Word, here's more:
1. On the FILE menu, click SAVE AS.
2. In the SAVE AS Format dropdown menu, click DOCUMENT TEMPLATE. (This will give your file a .dot extension and place it automatically in a "My Templates" folder).
3. In the FILE NAME box, type a name for your new template, and then click SAVE.
You can now either:
1. Keep the template, copy it whenever you open a new letter and type right into it, then print, or
2. Print up a number of copies on good stationery, and type into a page you have set up that will fit perfectly when you print on your letterhead.
Related links
Kids' bookplate labels from HP
Labels and binder covers from HP
