Printing Labels

[LACE]

Can you use a roll of labels with MS Office?

Specifically, can you rip off 6 labels, which would be approximately half a
piece of paper, and feed it through a printer, while using MS Publisher or MS
Word?

 

[Mary Sauer]

You probably can, it will take some effort to setup the page correctly. Merging would
be questionable. In page setup, select custom, input the label width and length plus
one label more for the margin.

 

[drc023]

Mary,
I do this all the time with 1" x 3.5" pinfeed labels torn into individual
sheets. No special setup or template needed. Start with a blank letter size
page and position the text frame or table if desired at the first label you
want to print. Example: the second label down would be .375" from the left
side of the page to account for the pinfeed carrier and then 1" down from
the top. The same procedure can apply to full sheet labels and to envelopes
as well. Nothing to it. I'm absolutely amazed that this question is asked so
often in the newsgroups.

 

[Mary Sauer]

Do you take the pin feed strip off before you print? Do you use a laser printer? I
have literally thousands of pin feed labels left over from our Okidata days. I still
have the Okidata, but because of space constraints I can't use it. It is a wonderful
printer, cost $600 back in the good old days.

I would hesitate putting those old labels through a laser, might try it on the
inkjet.

Have you used a merge with the labels? I am going to work this out...

 

[Ed Bennett]

Mary Sauer <[email protected]> was very recently heard to utter:

I've also used pinfeed labels (perforated concertina paper rather than roll
labels) with Publisher.

Do you take the pin feed strip off before you print?
Nope.

Do you use a
laser printer?
No.

I would hesitate putting those old labels through a laser, might try
it on the inkjet.

Yeah, you rish gumming up the mechanism in your laser printer.

Have you used a merge with the labels? I am going to work this out...

No, I have always laid out the page manually (mainly because the bottom
label is unprintable due to margin constraints, and the top one is only
partially so. I like to make use of the full label where possible)

 

[drc023]

Do you take the pin feed strip off before you print?

Nope, the carrier isn't perforated to allow the pinfeed strips to be removed

Do you use a laser printer?

Sometimes, if I want sharper print than I can get with my inkjet. My current
lasers are an HP IIIp and a Lexmark E312.

I have literally thousands of pin feed labels left over from our Okidata
days. I still have the Okidata, but because of space constraints I can't
use it. It is a wonderful printer, cost $600 back in the good old days.

Same here. I used an OKI 320 and various Epson dot matrix printers when I
did bulk mailings for clients at my print shops.

I would hesitate putting those old labels through a laser, might try it on
the inkjet.

I've run these labels through many different lasers and never had any
problems. I wouldn't use the lower paper feed trays which probably would
cause the labels to peel off. Using a fairly straight paper path from a top
or front feed is much safer. BTW: I'm not shy about running the same sheet
thru multiple times when I only need top print one or two labels.

Have you used a merge with the labels? I am going to work this out...

I have a couple of times, but mostly the printing is for only one or two
labels. I do use mail merge extensively when printing envelopes. I still do
a lot of wedding and shower invitations for family and church friends. Back
in the old days when I printed thousands of labels at a time, I used an
ancient flat file database - PC-File 3.0 - an amazing program. I haven't
found anything that could rival it for speed or ease of use. My requirements
are different now and using an Excel spreadsheet is more than adequate for
my current mail merge needs.