Comments on: Mac OS X: Print Mailing Labels directly from Address Book

By: Kimberly Winnicki

Kimberly Winnicki — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 04:44:23 +0000

What was the response to Gaysesf from November 1 of 2010? About printing Christmas labels from the address book? I want mine to read Mr. and Mrs. or the The XYZ Family. How do I set that up to print? do I need multiple listings? with Christmas in the notes?

By: Cathy

Cathy — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 19:02:39 +0000

My printer dialog window doesn’t show a drop down for Style. How do I get the dialog window to show this?

By: Willard202

Willard202 — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 20:14:00 +0000

For printing to those spare labels left over on a sheet, create a number of “blank” address cards (as many as you need to create blank spaces), with just one character in the address field (in my case I used a “period”, but anything will do so that address book recognizes it as a valid address), then make a new group (Shift-apple-n) which I called “Print Group”. Then add in all those blanks to fill up those spaces and the addresses you want to print. Select print and preview. You’ll soon see how to “trick” it into jogging the labels down the list. Clunky, but it works. Keep the “Print Group” until Apple comes up with a fix.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 23 Dec 2010 04:59:00 +0000

I can’t find a solution to this problem, either. Seems like such a shame, since it is an obvious and useful feature to have. I don’t understand.

By: Pwest

Pwest — Sat, 18 Dec 2010 22:59:00 +0000

Me too. I thought switching to a Mac was supposed to simplify my life. Instead I take inordinate amounts of time to find out it just can’t be done like I used to be able to do simply on a PC.

By: Rob

Rob — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 02:57:00 +0000

I’m trying to figure out a solution to the same issue. Any luck?

By: JDH30350

JDH30350 — Sun, 12 Dec 2010 19:21:00 +0000

did you ever find a solution to this? we have the same issue!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 22:05:00 +0000

…Instead of duplicating an entry 30 times, create a Group and copy/paste the card there 30 times. Now use that Group when printing the label…

This worked perfectly – Thanks!

By: Gayesf

Gayesf — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 23:16:00 +0000

For Christmas card labels, I want it to say Karen and Pete Nova or Mr. and Mrs. Pete Nova (whichever is easier to set up). My contacts are listed only under my friends’ names, with the spouse entered in its own field. If I just print labels, they come out with only Karen Nova. Do I have to make a second contact for each for use only with Christmas labels using the form I want?

I noted an answer the someone put Xmas in the Notes section and used a Smart group filter to pull those contacts into a label form to print. Would I have to make a second contact for each friend that has the husband’s name in the name field and put ‘Xmas’ in the notes area and use the smart group filter to create the Christmas list labels each time? Then I end up with duplicate contacts for everyone – one I use every day, and the other I use only at Christmas. Help!

By: Smith

Smith — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 14:43:00 +0000

Hi,
I am having a problem printing labels from Address book. I followed your instructions to include company and it worked. However, it is printing two labels for each contact. One with the entire name, company & address and then another label with the same name and company, but with no address. I can’t figure out why it is doing this…can you help??

Thank you!!!!