How do you print

[peppers-tree]

How do you print more than one label on a sheet of A4 paper? At the moment I am only able to print one per sheet and wasting so much paper...

[peppers-tree]

Are we all talking about the same thing here ? Wouldn't it be better to start a new post ....Thank you...

[dazzledayz]

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@character_parties_aus wrote:

I'd be interested to hear a simple solution for getting labels printed out of ebay for letter mail. Just small labels say 6 x 3cm

about 20-30 a day

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I use a Brother QL570 thermal label printer which should cost you around $80

6 Rolls of DK22205 30.5M x 6.2cm labels (Brother compatible with a reusable holder) from eBay seller bestdealsoz cost $48.

The printer is very fast and has a built in guillotine.

It comes with very good software and you can set up templates.

It will also print banners if you need.

I print the same size labels as you want and should get 900 per roll.

Cost per label is $0.008 each (less than 1 cent)

It's a wonderful little printer which can also do barcodes for stock.

The labels from bestdeals are very good and very very sticky.

I've been using this arrangement for 6 months now and haven't lost a letter.

I just open the order details and copy and paste to the Brother software.

Now if only I could find the time to barcode a few thousand books everything would be lovely!

[sueken4812]

Or if there is a Print Screen key on your keyboard ..... use that.

Get the label up, click Print Screen, then Paste into a Word document.

Edit out what you don't want, and position it on the page.  Then continue doing that with each label, on the same word document.

[peppers-tree]

Are we still talking about the Au Post labels for satchels ??? Please people .. Stick to my topic .. I have a hard time trying to follow it all... If you have something to ad about what I want to know about then I would very much like to hear you. But if you are not talking about the same thing, well.. Put politely.. .please,Go away  .....Thank You...

[character_parties_aus]

Sorry that was my fault I hijacked your thread

[dazzledayz]

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@peppers-tree wrote:

How do you print more than one label on a sheet of A4 paper? At the moment I am only able to print one per sheet and wasting so much paper...

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Sorry to have had a hand in the hijacking lol ... my apologies.

The simplest way I can see you doing this is to use your word processor.

If you are using MS Word here's how you'd do it (other word processors will be similar):

1. set up page properties to A4 size.

2. Insert  and position text boxes on the page (as many as you require) - don't forget to allow room for print margins ie don't take the tet boxes right up to the page edges.

3.  Set the text box line visibility to "solid line" and print a page - once you are happy with the layout change line properties to "No Line".

4. Save as a blank file (just the formatting you have done with no text).

5. Access your ebay order details, highlight the name and address, Press Ctrl+C

6. Swap to Word (Alt+Tab), position your cursor in the first text box, Press Ctrl+V

7. Repeat until you have done all your labels.

8. Print the page.

Note - When you are finished, close word without saving and you will be ready to go again next time.

If you are talking about AP Barcoded Paid Postage labels I use Click&Send which prints out 4 to a page

[saarzi]

Above post works perfectly fine, assuming you know how to change page settings and create text boxes and want to print a few times to make sure you have them in the right spots.

It is easier than this though, just to let WORD do it for you.  Every version of WORD has templates set up for letter labels - you dont need to create it yourself.  You just open it at the label template section, then save a copy to your desktop and itll be ready to go every time.

To find out what verison WORD you have (year - instructions vary slightly depending on what version you have) -

Go to MS word icon or shortcut (usually on desktop), DONT open it.

Instead, RIGHT click on it and a menu will pop up.

Go down on the menu and open "properties".

It will be written there.

If you happen to have MS Word 2010 (if not, let me know and Ill give instructions)-

1. Open MS word

2. top menu bar find the tab that says "Mailings", click it.

3. Go to "Labels", click it.

4. a box will pop up asking for details. At the bottom of this box go to "Options"

5. Another box pops up. You will see a list called "product numbers". says 1/2 letter, 1/4 letter etc. with measurements when you click on them.

6. go to "30 per page" in this menu, click it. (check measurements against labels you use, if its wrong, use one of the others in the list).

7. click "ok"... box will disappear.

8. click "new docment" on the larger box, which will then disappear, and viola!! a new doc with 30 spaces for labels.

9. SAVE to your desktop.

Cut and paste addresses, then print.

DONT save the addresses - you have the template on your desktop clean and nice ready to go next time.

[peppers-tree]

Thanks guys.. I have cut and pasted these instructions for later use....Didn't mean to be grouchy. It had been a long tiring day...

[transport-posters]

I've never used eBay's postage label function - it sounds hilarious that it can only print one address label per page.  What a joke in today's increasingly green eco world.

What I do is simply copy all the addresses from the PayPal payments, which includes the words "Shipping address:" above each address and paste it into a Word document which has a table (left cell for domestic orders and right cell for international orders).  Font size is 18 and the font is Arial Narrow and bolded - works wonderfully.

[phorum_junkie*]

I tried the snipping and C & P but found the image always came out a tiny bit fuzzy which was enough the PO scanner would not work and I spent ages in the shop while they manually entered all the numbers.

I am happy with getting 2 labels to a sheet of paper, I print one then cut the paper in half and feed the unprinted half into the manual feed slot at the front of my printer.

No way would I use click and send so that I paid far more for postage than the price of a couple of sheets of paper just to print 4 at once..