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>Greg,
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>If you run sheets of labels through a laser printer multiple times, you are asking for labels to come loose inside the printer, causing all sorts of problems. There are cheap thermal label printers on the market that work great for printing single labels.
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>With that disclaimer in mind, here's an idea:
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>Let's say there are 12 labels per page, and you want to print on the 5th label. You can create a cursor/table containing 5 records, leave the first four records empty (at least in the fields that show on the report), and put information in the 5th record.
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>You can define a report as multi-column, and you can tell it whether to go across or down the page first.
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>A twist on this would be to create a table in this same way, get to the table via ODBC from Microsoft Word.
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>>Is there a way to print a single label on a sheet of labels, and specify the location to be printed.
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>>Thanks in advance
>>Greg
Steve,
I appreciate your ideas. I forgot about the heat of a laser possibly causing the labels to come off inside the printer after multiple passes. I had Ink Jets in mind. You idea of the blank records in a cursor may be the the was to go if a label printer is not used.
Again, thanks
Greg
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