printing avery labels in address book - margins not right

I'm using Address Book to print out labels for my Christmas card envelopes.
I've got Avery J8173 labels form Staples - 2 columns and 5 rows - 10 labels per A4 sheet.

My 2 problems are:
I can't print any more than 5 lines per address - no matter what font size I use - this is annoying with a good number of my addresses, but to get round it I put 2 address elements on one line in Address Book - not a big problem.

The other problem is that the left margin of my addresses is barely 2 mm in from the left edge of the label. This doesn't look very professional. Any ideas? If I try to create a custom label I can indent the addresses in the left column by increasing the margin for the whole page, but I can't do anything about the margin in the right hand column

Any ideas?

I downloaded Avery DesignPro for Mac, but the labels I've got (J8173) aren't listed, and there are no labels in their list which match the dimensions I need. Bet the PC version is better ...

iMac 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, iMac G4, iBook, Mac OS X (10.5.8)

Posted on Dec 20, 2009 7:14 AM

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Dec 20, 2009 10:20 PM in response to Klaus1

Thanks for your screenshot. What version of DesignPro are you using? Mine is 1.10 and your screenshot looks nothing like mine! There is no Paper Format option - just Page Setup, which lets me choose A4, but the drop down list doesn't contain any formats prefixed with the letter J (presumably inkJet) nor 8173.

/Users/noelbailey/Desktop/designPro screenshot.jpg

Dec 21, 2009 2:33 AM in response to Noel And Cathy Bailey

What I am actually using is Avery LabelExpert as described here:

http://macdailynews.com/index.php/weblog/comments/10332/

but when you click the link for the download you are taken to

http://www.avery.co.uk/avery/en_gb/Templates-%26-Software/Software/Avery-DesignP ro-for-Mac.htm

It seems that Avery Design Pro has superseded it.

I am still sure that your label must be listed therein, but you could always ask Avery for guidance.

Dec 22, 2009 5:33 AM in response to Klaus1

Well it all boils down to the difference between the US and the UK versions of DesignPro. I hadn't realised that I'd downloaded the US version. I trashed this and all associated files and downloaded the UK version, which has all the necessary 'templates' including J8173. Annoyingly the UK version does not have the graphical elements included with the US version. UK Customer Support told me that they were 'working on it' though why that should be such a difficult job when the US version already has this feature is beyond me!

I've still not fathomed why Address Book ...
a) makes such a mess of printing these labels - margin way too close to left edge of label
b) doesn't ley you print any more than 5 lines in an address, even when there's plenty of space
c) doesn't let you include graphical elements on labels.

Thanks, Apple for another bit of half-done software! I won't begin to mention how hard it is to print pictures from iPhoto formatted the way you want - that's for a different forum!

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