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From: davidl@orca.UUCP (David Levine)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: microsoft file
Message-ID: <1485@orca.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 9-May-85 12:44:34 EDT
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Posted: Thu May  9 12:44:34 1985
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Organization: Tektronix, Wilsonville OR
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Summary: 

(I decided to post this, rather than mailing it, because I think it's of 
general interest.)

I just printed about 300 mailing labels using Microsoft File.  Here are two
points to consider:

	Be sure the usable area of the record (the white part of the Form 
	window) is exactly 1 inch high.  I've been told that it's necessary 
	to put the top field right up at the top of the white area and the 
	bottom field right at the bottom, but I don't know if that's really 
	required.

	Set the top and bottom margins to zero.  (Page Setup menu).

The biggest headaches I had were with the Imagewriter.  It insists on 
spitting out an entire page of (expensive!) labels at the beginning and end 
of each run, its high speed and print buffer (usually good points) mean that it
usually wastes a page or more of labels before you can stop it if you notice
something wrong, and I found it impossible to wind these particular labels back
through the machine (they kept peeling off down in the mechanism... yuck!).
It took me a LOT of labels to find out how to set the printer so that it starts
printing at the top of a page.

David D. Levine  (...decvax!tektronix!orca!davidl)          [UUCP]
                 (orca!davidl.tektronix@csnet-relay.csnet)  [ARPA]