Printing a postage lablel from a PDF.

[Dave Plowman (News)]

I have PrintLbls which is great for ordinary address labels. I have self
adhesive sheets of them. But it works with plain text in the form of a CSV.

Postage labels from the PO and Hermes etc are a PDF - and usually A4,
although the label itself A6.

Self adhesive labels for those would be great. But cutting down an A4
sheet rather pricey. A6 would be affordable.

Of course I could do a screen grab of the label and print it with a number
of progs. But wondered if there was a better way?

[Tim Hill]

Post by Dave Plowman (News)
I have PrintLbls which is great for ordinary address labels. I have
self adhesive sheets of them. But it works with plain text in the form
of a CSV.
Postage labels from the PO and Hermes etc are a PDF - and usually A4,
although the label itself A6.
Self adhesive labels for those would be great. But cutting down an A4
sheet rather pricey. A6 would be affordable.

Sheets of four A6 shipping labels on A4 are available from Avery and
whatnot. The trick is getting it to print the downloaded one in the
correct corner for the A4 sheet you have with just one A6 label left!!!

Post by Dave Plowman (News)
Of course I could do a screen grab of the label and print it with a
number of progs. But wondered if there was a better way?

I'd probably import the PDF into ArtWorks or Draw, adjust and print from
there if it didn't arrive in the right place on the page; ISTR at least
one parcel service allowed the position of the A6 label on an A4 sheet to
be chosen as I foolishly then put the sheet in the printer the wrong way
around. :-)

T

[Richard Darby (news)]

Post by Tim Hill

Post by Dave Plowman (News)
I have PrintLbls which is great for ordinary address labels. I have
self adhesive sheets of them. But it works with plain text in the form
of a CSV.
Postage labels from the PO and Hermes etc are a PDF - and usually A4,
although the label itself A6.
Self adhesive labels for those would be great. But cutting down an A4
sheet rather pricey. A6 would be affordable.

Sheets of four A6 shipping labels on A4 are available from Avery and
whatnot. The trick is getting it to print the downloaded one in the
correct corner for the A4 sheet you have with just one A6 label left!!!

In case anyone is interested the Avery number for A5 self adhesive labels
(2 per A4 sheet) is L7168

Richard Darby.

[Dave Plowman (News)]

On 2 Dec 2021 as I do recall,

Post by Dave Plowman (News)
I have PrintLbls which is great for ordinary address labels. I have
self adhesive sheets of them. But it works with plain text in the form
of a CSV.
Postage labels from the PO and Hermes etc are a PDF - and usually A4,
although the label itself A6.

I normally print the label onto plain paper and attach it to the item to
be posted using Sellotape.

Exactly what I do too. But did wonder if there was a simple way to print
from the PDF to A6.

[Tim Hill]

On 2 Dec 2021 as I do recall,

Post by Dave Plowman (News)
I have PrintLbls which is great for ordinary address labels. I have self
adhesive sheets of them. But it works with plain text in the form of a CSV.
Postage labels from the PO and Hermes etc are a PDF - and usually A4,
although the label itself A6.

I normally print the label onto plain paper and attach it to the item to
be posted using Sellotape.

Hot tip from TNT driver on route 666 who had to try and deliver the
undeliverable: always write a delivery address directly on a parcel with
an indelible felt pen in the format [no./name][postcode][country].
Machinery has a habit of removing labels, however well they are attached!