Envelope printing

[A Noblitt]

I am trying to print about 200 envelopes that are 6" by 9" on an HP LJ 1012.
It is an Excel file that I am printing using the mail merge function of MS
Word. After much messing with this, I was finally able to get the mailing
addresses to print on the envelopes. However, the return address is not
printing because MS Word says that it is out of the print area. I chose the
right size envelope, everything looks to be formatted correctly, and the
drivers on my LJ are up to date, but I am getting frustrated that I can't
figure out how to fix this. Any thoughts? Thank you.

 

[Peter Foldes]

Tried to do this in Publisher yet?

 

[Beth Melton]

Each printer has it's own printable area. First place your cursor in
the return address and go to File/Page Setup and click OK. If prompted
with a printable area message asking you to either Fix or Ignore then
click Fix.

If that doesn't work then try adjusting the space before the Return
address on the main document:

- Place your insertion point in the first line
- Go to Format/Paragraph
- In the Space Before section add some points of space, perhaps start
with 12 - 18 pts

Take a look at it in Print Preview and make the necessary adjustments.

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Beth Melton
Microsoft Office MVP

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[A Noblitt]

Thank you, but that didn't work either. When I tell the program to "Fix", it
moves the return address to the top middle of the envelope instead of to the
top left. I then try to change the left parameter to 0.5", but Word always
comes back and wants to "Fix" the margin to the middle of the envelope. Of
course, if I say "Ignore", then the return address doesn't print. Either
this is a bug or I am missing something. Any thoughts?

 

[Beth Melton]

This could be due to a bug in the HP printer driver. Create a new
document and go to File/Page Setup, change all margins to 0" and when
prompted click the "Fix" command. If the bottom margin is set to 2.67"
then your envelope issue is caused by a bug in the printer driver. You
should be able to download a beta driver that corrects the issue from:
http://www.hp.com/pond/ljbeta/index.html

Please post all follow-up questions to the newsgroup. Requests for
assistance by email can not be acknowledged.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Beth Melton
Microsoft Office MVP

Word FAQ: http://mvps.org/word
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MVP FAQ site: http://mvps.org/

 

[A Noblitt]

Beth,

Thank you very much. I will go ahead and try that. Last night, I went
ahead and printed the envelopes w/o the return address. However, I have
another mailing going out soon, so need to figure this out. Appreciate you.

Alan