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printing labels
when I try to print labels in Word the address "creeps" down so that, by the
third label, the address is spread over two labels. I have taken out the bottom "paragraph marker", but that doesn't seem to help. Also although my Word "document" is set in single line-spacing, the labels appear to be in 1.5- or two-line-spacing. |
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By the sounds of it, you've got the label pitch slightly wrong. Check the
row height of the table: it should be exactly the distance from the top of one label to the top of the next. "short and sweet" short and wrote in message ... when I try to print labels in Word the address "creeps" down so that, by the third label, the address is spread over two labels. I have taken out the bottom "paragraph marker", but that doesn't seem to help. Also although my Word "document" is set in single line-spacing, the labels appear to be in 1.5- or two-line-spacing. |
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-----Original Message----- By the sounds of it, you've got the label pitch slightly wrong. Check the row height of the table: it should be exactly the distance from the top of one label to the top of the next. "short and sweet" short and wrote in message ... when I try to print labels in Word the address "creeps" down so that, by the third label, the address is spread over two labels. I have taken out the bottom "paragraph marker", but that doesn't seem to help. Also although my Word "document" is set in single line-spacing, the labels appear to be in 1.5- or two-line-spacing. . 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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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printing labels
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. |
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