10.4: Print envelopes in Address Book

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Wed, Aug 10 2005 at 8:32AM PDT • Contributed by: randydarden

Did you know you can print envelopes directly from Address Book in 10.4? According to the Address Book help, this is a new feature. I know I haven't seen it before.

While viewing an Address Book card, or while multiple cards are selected, choose the menu item File -> Print. In the Print dialog, there are options for printing lists of addresses, mailing labels, pocket-sized lists, and ... envelopes. Lots of different sizes and shapes are supported.

For more information, search for "adrbk1562" in the Help Viewer application.

[robg adds: I know this is a pretty basic hint and it's just one regarding a new feature, but I asked a few iChat buddies about it, and a surprisingly high percentage didn't realize that envelope printing support had been added in 10.4 ... so now there's no excuse not to know!]

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10.4: Print envelopes in Address Book
Authored by: mobius314 on Wed, Aug 10 2005 at 10:42AM PDT

This option was around in Panther too, at least. I don't find it very useful because I normally want to print a single address label. The layout of the label sheet is not configurable so it always prints on the upper left label first.

10.4: Print envelopes in Address Book
Authored by: mattinsyd on Wed, Aug 10 2005 at 7:51PM PDT

The hint was not about printing labels but printing directly to envelopes. This is a handy feature. I hate writing addresses by hand on envelopes. Hmm. I should really say I hate writing by hand. I prefer to type.

10.4: Print envelopes in Address Book
Authored by: mobius314 on Thu, Aug 11 2005 at 12:54PM PDT

Oh! I totally misread this. This is actually useful for my problem of printing ONE thing at a time. :) Skip the labels!

10.4: Print envelopes in Address Book
Authored by: dannyp on Thu, Aug 11 2005 at 12:24PM PDT

has anyone figured out a way to configure where it prints?

maybe somehow using blank addresses to push it to start where you want?

10.4: Print envelopes in Address Book
Authored by: abobrow on Thu, Aug 11 2005 at 2:21AM PDT

Too bad no bar codes. MS Word even does that.

10.4: Print envelopes in Address Book - Customizing?
Authored by: rxfrchng on Tue, Aug 16 2005 at 1:50PM PDT

When printing Envelopes or Mailing Labels, there's no way - or I haven't figured out how - to customize what's being printed. This is a problem considering it is printing the spouse's name AFTER the last name. For example:

John Smith and Mary
123 Elm St
Anytown, FL 32316

10.4: Print envelopes in Address Book - Customizing?
Authored by: NeedleNedRyerson on Mon, Sep 26 2005 at 1:55AM PDT

Yeh, what's the point of having all those extra fields if you can't use them on your printed lables! I have been wanting to print job title and department on my labels for ages - an essential when I'm sending out to art directors in big companies. Does any one know how I can customize the print setting so these detailed would appear on printed labels??

thanks

10.4: Print envelopes in Address Book - Customizing?
Authored by: extempore on Thu, Dec 22 2005 at 12:09PM PST

It will print the spouse's name correctly if you enter the spouse's full name: if the main entry is "John Smith" and spouse "Mary Smith" it will correctly print "John and Mary Smith".

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