Beginner question - setting image print position on A4 page

[nmw01223]

I am a beginner on GIMP (using 3.0.8). I am trying to print an image on an A4 sheet in a specific location.

It's actually a greetings card (made of an A4 pages folded in half) and the image needs to fill the bottom half of the A4 page, with a 5mm border all round.

I can set the image aspect ratio OK, but when I come to print it, I can see no way of placing it to a specific location on the page. In Photoshop, in the print dialog, you can specifiy the offset of the image to position it anywhere you like. But, I just can't see how to do that in GIMP.

Is there a way, what am I missing? The only thing I can see to do is pad the image with a lot of white space so it completely fills an A4 sheet and print that, but it does seem clunky.

[rich2005]

A bit of a problem using Windows  11.  M$ has broken the Gimp print preview. It is fixed with a registry hack.  https://www.winhelponline.com/blog/resto...indows-11/  but if you do not want to do that then make your image in Gimp and print using some other application such as LibreOffice.

I do not have a printer installed in my Win11 VM so this is Win 10.

   

(1) When image is complete, Rotate 90 deg.
(2) In Image -> Print -> preview depending on how you created your image it might be too small / too large.  
(3) Change print size by adjusting the resolution settings ( If originally very small, then go back and redraw your masterpiece at a larger size)
(4) Click and drag the preview to a suitable location - usually the left side which gets printed first.

Note: home printers do not use white ink. Anything white (or transparent) takes the color of the media.

A lot easier in linux and the gutenprint plugin, I did exactly this last Christmas, Use a bit of regular paper as a trial run.  My printer which bends the card around a roller was not happy but I got there.