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Subject: Re: Address Labels & Envelopes
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Date: Fri, 19-Apr-85 16:21:11 EST
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From: mark@cbpavo (Mark Horton)

If you buy ONE THING from one of the supplies-and-accessories companies
that sell via mail order catalogs, you will instantly be on every
mailing list for such things in the world.  I get 2 or 3 copies of
such catalogs now, because I once bought a printer stand/muffler.
Some of them are quite specialized: one I got seemed aimed at
stationary for dentists.

What I'm leading up to is that there is a big industry out there that
makes special stationary, forms, and the like with your logo/address
printed on them in your favorite font.  Opening up the UARCO catalog
on the top of the pile, for example, I see a number of kinds of
envelopes with sprocket holes on the sides, designed to go through a
typical pin feed printer.  Prices start at $35.70 for 500 unimprinted
continuous form envelopes, and go as high as $177 for 1000 fancy
two color printed envelops on ultra-high quality paper.  (Cheap printed
envelops are under $100/thousand, down to $71.65/thousand if you get
6000 or more at once.)

Such envelopes are not designed for laser printers, but would work well
with a cheap desktop printer or a daisy wheel.  I suspect that there are
some that are intended for a Xerox machine (ala 8 1/2 x 11 gummed labels)
that would work OK in a laser printer, but I don't see any mention of
such things in this catalog.  (Most of the catalogs wind up at home, the
UARCO one happens to be handy now.)  I'm not trying to plug UARCO in
particular, as I'm sure that others are comparable, I just have their
catalog handy - if anyone wants more details, UARCO is in DeKalb Illinois,
and their phone is 800-435-7013.  The Drawing Board, at 800-243-3207,
has similar stuff.

Another trick that mass personalized mailers use (e.g. everybody who
sends you a monthly bill) is to get envelopes with your address printed
on the return area and a window to put the address through.  Then you
can print the address on a fixed location on the letter and it shows
through.  These places, of course, carry these envelopes too.

There are various kinds of ugly little memos with space for the two
addresses and the message on one side of a form, directly mailable,
if you don't mind being tacky.

And, of course, you can print on labels and stick them on the blank
envelope - there are no doubt lots of labels intended for Xerox machines
that will work well in a laser printer, especially if you're willing
to batch them.

	Mark