Re: 30 page mail merge labels only prints one page?

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From: Tony Wu (Hottonywu_at_h0tmail.c0m.(n0spam))
Date: 08/01/04 

Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2004 19:39:01 -0700

You are a wealth of good advice and knowledge. How did you get so good?

You are right, I hate to have labels comming off the carrier sheet and jam up my rollers. The Brothers HL1440 manual feed grabs the paper and gets it cock-eyed so the printed label on the left side is within the borders but the top right side prints a little out of the border so I have to throw awau three of the top right labels. That would be a pain to have to repint the top right three of each of the 30 pages! I was hoping the paper tray would feed it in straighter.

Perhapes smaller font would give me enough leeway. Also thougth that I could make a longer paper feed guide to keep the paper in proper alignment as it is been fed into the manual feed.

Wish I had my old Epson pin fed dot matrix printer from twenty some years ago. Of course, back then, I had my trusty Osborn II CPM system which I bought for $1798.00. I remember doing mail merge in WordStar and dBase II. Got pretty good in SuperCalc too. That was back in the good old days! 

-- 
Tony Wu
"Peter Jamieson" wrote:
> The advice is probably to do with the path the paper takes - if the label
> stationery bends to go round a roller (more typical of a laser printer I'd
> have thought) the labels may start detaching and cause jams and other
> problems if the adhesive gets heated by the printer. So I'd follow the
> advice unless I was absolutely sure I was not going to damage the printer.
> 
> But what you should be able to do is create a mail merge main document for
> the correct label type, adjust the margins until it prints correctly, then
> save that document and use it as the starting point for future label merges
> to that printer. You could also detach the data source before you save and
> close the document. Usually it's less wasteful to check the layout by
> printing to plain paper (using the same paper tray/path as you will use for
> the labels) then check the alignment by placing the plain paper page over a
> blank label sheet.
> 
> -- 
> Peter Jamieson
> 
> "Tony Wu" <Hottonywu@h0tmail.c0m.(n0spam)> wrote in message
> news:BDA22E78-1A1E-4CE2-B651-0B81923CB1E9@microsoft.com...
> > Aaaah! That did the trick!  I wasted 3 hours last night and 3 more this
> morning trying to resolve this issue.
> >
> > Thanks Peter!
> >
> > I took your suggestion and merged to output doc.  Is it just as easy as
> Print, then choose in Word 2003, "Microsoft office Document Image Writer.
> (Brand new to Office 2003, got it yesterday!)  Works great!
> >
> > One other question,  my label page prints out skrewed slightly due to
> manual feeding on my Brothers HL-1440.  I am tempted to try puting a few in
> my paper tray, which is not recommended on the Staples labels package.  Any
> thought on this issue?
> > -- 
> > Tony Wu
> >
> >
> > "Peter Jamieson" wrote:
> >
> > > You have to perform the merge to see the full results. If you want to
> check
> > > the merge results before printing, merge to an output document first.
> > >
> > > What happens when you preview is that Word takes the current record in
> the
> > > data source (and you can move backwards and forwards inthe source data)
> and
> > > uses it as the start record. So if for example, you have moved to record
> 2,
> > > you will see records 2 to 31 on the previewpage, and so on. So you never
> > > actually see the second page that you would see if you actually
> performed
> > > the merge.
> > >
> > > -- 
> > > Peter Jamieson
> > >
> > > "Tony Wu" <Hottonywu@h0tmail.c0m.(n0spam)> wrote in message
> > > news:1166030D-8B0D-472E-9D2A-130BAAAD8CCB@microsoft.com...
> > > > What am I doing wrong?
> > > >
> > > > Created list of 900 in Excel
> > > > Mail merge in Word using Mail Merge Wizard
> > > > Can see only one page of 30 labels in preview
> > > > Can click over to additional labels past recipent 30 in "Preview your
> > > labels"
> > > > When I click on "Edit Recipient list" I see in "Mail Merge Recipients"
> all
> > > 900 name/addresses.
> > > > Please Help!
> > > > Tony W
> > >
> > >
> > >
> 
> 
>

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