[comp.sys.mac.hypercard] Printing Labels, Part 2

leue@galen.crd.ge.com (Bill Leue) (02/12/91)

(My previous posting on this subject seems to have confused some people,
judging from the responses I got.  Let me try again)

I'm having problems with printing continuous tractor-feed labels with
HC 2.0.  The problems seem to be similar to those others have reported.
Rather than try to explain lots of details about what I tried, let
me make a flat assertion, and see if anyone disagrees:

"It is impossible to print a series of labels with GRAPHICS if the
height of a label is not an integral divisor of one of the standard page
sizes."

Before you rush to tell me I'm wrong, note carefully that I mention
printing graphics, NOT just the contents of fields using the report
format. The particular application I am trying to do requires printing
disk labels (the Avery tractor-feed "one-across" version) which span exactly
3 inches from the top of one label to the top of the next one.  I
can't find any way to print them "continuously" without messing up
on page boundaries.  It doesn't matter how I play with margins, spacing,
etc, or whether the "no space between pages" option is checked.  I think
this phenomenon is the "label creep" problem that others have reported.

If anyone knows FOR SURE that there is some way to accomplish this
feat, please post a response or send email.

Thanks!
-Bill Leue
leue@crd.ge.com