Printing from address book to a Dymo LableWriter

In trying to print to my Dymo LableWriter 310 I cannot figure out how to get it to print in portrait format. I called there tech support and the answer I get is that I have to figure it out. They allow the printer to work on a MAC and they give you there program to use but you have to scroll through all the names. Address book will print to the LableWriter but it prints in Landscape format and I can't figure out how to switch it. I called the Apple desk who were very helpful but they couldn't figure it out and my problem is a how to question so there really can't help. Any wise Mac user out there with a fix.

Happy New Year all

G4 Mini, Mac OS X (10.4.3)

Posted on Dec 27, 2005 8:39 AM

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Dec 29, 2005 9:00 PM in response to Stiobhard Cassel

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My DYMO label printers have been dysfunctional since 10.4 with address book. I can print regular address labels [about 1.2 by 4 inch rolls] fine with DYMOs included software. However I used to be able to print in 10.3 with address book and any other software directly to the labelmaker [e.g., with text edit or Word]. This functionality has been lost with 10.4. It ends up printing in the wrong orientation and cuts off the printing on the label when standard ADDRESS LABELS size are selected from the printing menu [not SHIPPING or LARGE ADDRESS LABELS] after choosing the DYMO printing labels option in address book. Visually on the preview screen, it also cuts it off until you use the zoom in/out slider and will refocus correctly. I have spoken with engineers at DYMO on several occasions and they were able to reproduce my issue on their macintoshes and have since told me that this is an issue related to 10.4. I have multple macintoshes [one of which is a brand new imac] and two completely different DYMO printers and happens on ALL the machines. So I can confidently say this is not a conflict or installation issue.


I spoke at length with an apple and dymo engineer. It is a known problem in 10.4 and is supposedly an apple related problem. The only way I can print on my dymo turbo 400 printer using a address label setting is to use the dymo label printer software. I think this problem will be corrected in a software upgrade by apple. Adding suffix and titles is a problem in both mac address book and dymo. If you wanted to list John Smith, MD for example, there is no option to include how you want your labels formatted to this level of specification.

You can design your own label in Dymo [not with the mac address book setting however] and type in Mr & Mrs on the first line and then use the command to enter the name after that.

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Printing from address book to a Dymo LableWriter

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