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Avery label software

Avatar John Surtees
With Christmas almost upon us and with the need to create labels, I thought of trying Avery's free label software. Has anybody any experience of this?

It's found at this address:

http://www.avery.com/avery/en_us/Templates-&-Software/Software/Avery-DesignPro-for-Mac.htm#BVRRWidgetID


I'm presently using the label print facility in Address Book but I don't like the way it alters the type size according to the amount of lines in the address.

Re: Avery label software

Avatar Steve Ryder
I haven't tried the Avery software, but have used pearLabeliser for some years. http://www.pearworks.com

I tend to use it to print sheets of sticky labels, one address per sheet. and it does this quite well, also you can alter type size manually. I think it would also compile and print a set of addresses within a group. but for Christmas cards, I now tend to print directly onto the envelopes using Address Book.

Steve

Re: Avery label software

Avatar Peter Shepheard
I tried Avery's software but could not get it to suppress blank lines. I asked Avery about this and their reply was:

After Speaking to our soft ware team are you trying to get DesignPro for Mac to automatically suppress blank lines when doing a mail merge and a field is empty. Unfortunately Design pro for Mac dose not have this feature.

Makes labels look very odd.

Peter

Re: Avery label software

Avatar John Surtees
After trying it, I found it does not support A4 label sheets. Avery make the labels, but don't support them in their software. At the end of the day i think Address Book take a lot of beating.

Re: Avery label software

Avatar Gordon Clyne
forget labels, especially if you have a printer that has a tight turn in its paper route, like mine, the labels peel into the innards.... just use address book to print directly on the envelopes.

Re: Avery label software

Avatar Mick Burrell
Gordon - surprised that a 'tight turn' that peels labels can cope with envelopes.

Re: Avery label software

Avatar Alan Cox
I have used the AppleWorks Database (don't snort) for Christmas address labels for the last 10 or years or so and they work a treat. It's a bit of a fag setting up the margins at first. And, of course you have to set up the database and keep it up to date. After every Christmas I review who is on it, who should be on next year and particularly who to delete. Also, occasionally during the year, I may want to circulate a number of people, so I duplicate the database and use this to put in the appropriate names and addresses. I use sheets with 21 labels each. 'seasy.

Re: Avery label software

Avatar Lionel Ogden
I use an old copy of MS Word for Mac just for printing labels it works a treat producing sheets with either one address on all labels or a different address on each one. I believe the latest version of Pages will do a similar thing. I print them on my HP Photosmart printer which rolls the paper around in a tight turn without loss of labels into its innards.

Re: Avery label software

Avatar Alan Cox
Will anyone back up Lionel's belef that the new version of Pages will produce address labels – either the same address on all labels on a sheet of blanks, or different addresses on a sheet – and, if so, what database is used? Is it the address book?

Re: Avery label software

Avatar John Surtees
I found this. It's not very elegant, but might help:

http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=362877&page=2

The 37th posting has a full description of how somebody has managed this.

Re: Avery label software

Avatar Douglas Cheney
An interesting article on using Pages to print address labels
http://www.macworld.com/article/157749/2011/02/pageslabels.html

Re: Avery label software

Avatar Derek Wright
I use SoHo Labels it recognises Avery Label codes.
Do not forget to select the address format appropriate to the country that the label refers to in Address Book.
 
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