On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 1:31 AM, John wrote:

Hello. I am making some new business cards in Gimp 2.6.11 on Windows OS. What is the best way to place the card image onto a format that prints a sheet of Avery labels? Is that an external plugin? Where would I find that resource? Thanks.

If you were a Linux user, I would advice sticking to Glabels.

OTOH, http://alternativeto.net/software/glabels/?platform=windows

Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org

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On 12-03-29 05:31 PM, John wrote:

What is the best way to place the card image onto a format that prints a sheet of Avery labels? Is that an external plugin?

Once you have your final image, the easiest way to print them on to labels is to use the label template features of your favourite word processing program.

On 12-03-30 04:08 AM, John wrote:

One of the issues I have with the labels pattern in Word is getting the images to line up exactly along the border of the pattern.

Alignment when printing is a common problem with a lot of printers. You have two options to deal with it. Either adjust page offsets in the printer configuration panel (if you can) or measure the offsets on a printed page and adjust the label template to compensate.

On 03/31/2012 01:55 PM, Kevin Cozens wrote:

On 12-03-30 04:08 AM, John wrote:

One of the issues I have with the labels pattern in Word is getting the
images to line up exactly along the border of the pattern.

Alignment when printing is a common problem with a lot of printers. You have two options to deal with it. Either adjust page offsets in the printer configuration panel (if you can) or measure the offsets on a printed page and adjust the label template to compensate.

A while back I was on a job where we had to print out hundreds of cable tags - fancy labels, more or less - per unit, for a run of custom industrial machines. We wasted about half a day trying everything, starting with the "official" templates, to get those things to line up correctly.

I was the one who found the solution: Print from AutoCAD. Thaat, with careful measurement of failed test runs on plain paper and adjustment of the template matrix, finally worked. Nobody, me included, liked that idea - but it was the only solution we could find.

I hate printers. Cheap desktop ones are bad enough, and the all-in-one print/copy/fax things are abominations. The former can often be made to work reliably enough for weeks at a time, the latter are best corrected with a nine pound hammer.

:o/

Steve