Return Address Labels

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Return Address Labels

I have printed out address labels on Avery 5260 three column 30 labels per sheet address labels. Now I want to print out several sheets of return address labels using me card. When I go to the print box, only one label shows up in the window. I, of course, want to print out a full sheet of labels with just my return address. If I click on print, will I get just one label printed or will it fill up the entire sheet. If I get just one label, how do I get the full sheet printed with the same label? Many thanks, Ed Morsman

MacBookPro, Mac OS X (10.5)

Posted on Nov 25, 2008 11:53 AM

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Answer 1

Nov 25, 2008 4:18 PM in response to Ed Morsman

Welcome to the discussions, Ed.

If you print a label from an Address Book contact you will get one label, not a sheet of labels. If you use Address Book to print contact addresses directly on to envelopes you can get it to print a return address also.

There is a product Roll Call Directory which will do this, but it has not been updated for a couple of years, so I don't know how usable it still is. Maybe you could try it and let us know 🙂

AK

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Ed Morsman Author

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Nov 27, 2008 8:21 AM in response to Austin Kinsella1

Dear Mr. Kinsella, Thanks for your prompt answer. Although I learned you can't print multiple return addresses all the same, your reply at least saved me a lot of frustrating time. I went to the Roll Call website which is quite elaborate but has not been updated in two years. I e-mailed them and have not had a reply. Not being able to print return address labels strikes me as a major design flaw that should be easily correctible. If you are with Apple or have any influence with them, I hope you will ask them for this simple enhancement. Avery sells label sheets specifically for return addresses and it makes no sense that they can not be used on a Mac. Again, many thanks for your help. Ed

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Answer 3

Nov 27, 2008 8:48 AM in response to Ed Morsman

Ed
In general Apple employees do not contribute here in this user-to-user forum. If you want to suggest improvements to Apple use OS X Feedback. You would not be alone in looking for this feature - it is often looked for here.

AK

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mnstep

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Dec 5, 2008 5:47 PM in response to Ed Morsman

I ran into the same problem today with the return address labels. I decided to create a new group in the address book and called it "return address labels." I copied my address card and pasted it in that "return address labels" group a total of 30 times (the # of labels per sheet). I then selected all 30 of my own address entries and printed them up. They came out fine. It's a pain that it has to be done that way, but it worked.

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The_Drew

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Dec 10, 2008 5:05 AM in response to mnstep

this doesnt work. it only allows a single instance of the same card?

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MacL0v3r

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Dec 14, 2008 3:14 PM in response to Ed Morsman

Actually, Avery makes a program for the Mac that prints labels as you described.
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Cheers!

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Answer 7

Dec 14, 2008 5:13 PM in response to mnstep

Thank you for the tip. I did the same thing and it worked fine. And it only took about 1 minute to copy and paste 30 times my own contact card into a 'return labels' group.

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Answer 8

Dec 16, 2008 10:01 AM in response to Ed Morsman

AVERY DesignPro for MAC does the job of printing full sheet(s) of Return Address labels very nicely and is free.

http://www.avery.com/avery/en_us/Templates-%26-Software/Software/Avery-DesignPro -for-Mac.htm?N=4294967076&refchannel=3980ac83ae70a110VgnVCM1000002118140aRCRD

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