At Vashon Island Imaging we do a lot of test strips to get color right for our clients, many of whom are artists and photographers. The strips can be as annoying as they are helpful if there's a bunch of them floating around. They require labeling and are easily misplaced because of their odd shapes. That's why we like to print test strips on the same sheet that the client's picture will print on, and not trim the strip(s) off until the job is done. That way everything is together on the same sheet.
Logic would tell you to print your way down the sheet from top to bottom... but that would be wrong because your printing machine probably won't let you do it that way.
Many printers can sense that something has already been printed on the sheet. It is part of the routine the machine goes through when you insert the paper. Presumably this is thought to be helpful but that is debatable. Suppose you want to print multiple test strips sequentially, not all at once? Or what if you want to 'double print' one thing on top of another? Then you have to out fox the machine.
Fool the machine by working from the center out. Using the illustration above, print the test strips in the order shown. You may not need three test strips or you may need more. The dimensions of the picture itself will determine how much page real estate is available for test strips, and what size(s) they can be.
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