[mdlug] Printing a lousy #$%^&* envelope.

[Jim Broughton]

  I don't usually print envelopes on printers hooked to computers.
I thought just this one time I would try it. I could have stopped after
the first 4 or 5 tries but by then I had gotten to worked up and
faced with a problem that is pissing me off I tend to get single tracked.
It's just that I had never tried it before. Shame on me for thinking it
would be a breeze.
  The folks up in the graphics department where I work run envelopes
through a color copier that acts just like a color printer and they do
it all the time. Funny thing is I have never tried it with Windows XP
and M$ office nor on a Mac with whatever they use.

Jim


Raymond McLaughlin wrote:
> Jeff Hanson wrote:
>   
>> On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 9:55 PM, Jim Broughton <jbroughton at twmi.rr.com> wrote:
>>     
>>> I have been a linux user for about 10 years. I have never tried
>>> to print an envelope under Slackware Linux using KDE and Cups.
>>> I may never try again. Total failure. I am quite angry.
>>>       
>> Haven't tried it myself.  I have used gLables to print self-adhesive
>> address labels using a CSV export from a Calc spreadsheet as input.
>>     
>
>
> I haven't tried either, but I think I would have tried printing it as a
> simple word processor document, or more likely a spreadsheet. If I
> understood you correctly you are trying to print *a* (single) envelope?
> Also you are having no trouble using the fold out paper tray, perse?
>
> It seems like, if you didn't mind sacrificing a few sheets of plain
> paper, you could have gotten the text you wanted placed where you wanted
> it, relative to the leading edge of the page, and then just run an
> envelope instead of plain paper.
>
> Failing that I think I would have printed the address on plain paper and
> then cut it (with scissors) and pasted it (with paste) on the envelope.
> Scotch tape and clear packing tape also do well for holding such
> improvised labels in place.
>
> This is still more work than it should be, but I think you would have
> had your envelope in the end. But I feel your pain.
>
> Ray
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