We have had this same exact problem and have experienced it with Corel Word
Perfect as well as MS Word! Have tested it on many printers as well & they
all do the same exact thing, even when printing to a xerox copier. Have not
yet been able to find a solution.
"Graham Mayor" wrote:
There are a couple more issues to consider also.
1. Check that the printer driver and the document are using the same paper
size and that there is no zoom set in the print options
2. If you have set a header at any time in normal.dot there will be an
unwanted paragraph mark in the header that will throw out the alignment.
Rename normal.dot to oldnormal.dot temporarily and see if that effects an
improvement.
It should be noted also that it has always been possible to have label
outlines that did not exactly match the printed result and which required
some fine tuning, because Word is a slave to the printer driver, and the
vagaries of printer drivers are such that they do not format documents
identically.
--
Graham Mayor - Word MVP
My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org
Jezebel wrote:
I don't understand. Since Word 97 (my first) continuing to
Word 2003, when using mail merge or simply printing the
same address on a sheet of labels. You select the Avery
Label product code number. And take the worry out of the
entire process. Word 2003 provides for 211 Avery product
codes and 15 other manufacturers.
Word does this by creating a table with the row height set to the
label pitch. (Have a look at the label Customize function or switch
on table gridlines to see what's happening). The process can go wrong
if a) you create your own and get the measurements wrong, or b) you
buy el-cheapo non-brand labels that claim to be equivalent of one of
the standards, but are manufactured differently -- most commonly, the
label is the right size, but the gap *between* rows of labels is
slightly different.
And as an off-the-wall possibility I once saw a laser printer that
had had a toner cartridge leak into the works. The result was paper
slippage during printing, so the paper would get progressively out of
sync with the image drum. This would have the same effect.