Printing greeting cards on elements 9

I cannot succssfully print a greeting card on elements 9.  I have finally arrived at the conculsion that duplex printing is not possible.  So I have been trying to print without the duplex feature enabled.  The problem is when the page prints out the picture takes up the whole page - how do I shrink it to make it look like a greeting  card?

Using one of the guides under, "Create?" I don't think those were done with duplex printing in mind (at least when doing home projects).
Could be a printer driver issue in regards to it printing too big. Can you preview before you print? Are the settings correct?

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