Printing Mailing Labels from Address Book
Mac OS X 10.5 or Leopard as it’s more widely known as, comes with a great built in function. The ability to print mailing labels without any extra software. You can print straight out of the Address Book application to your blank Avery label sheets. Let’s figure out how.
Open up your Address Book application, it’s the icon on your dock with the @ symbol engraved in a book. After this is open, go to the file menu in the upper left of your screen and select print. This window will pop up probably with a different printer selected:
Select the printer you want to print to then click the down arrow to the right of the printers name. This will give you an options screen that gives you more control over what the printer prints. It should look something like this:
About halfway down you will see an option called style. Click the drop down menu to the right of that and you should see an option to print mailing labels.
Once selected your options screen will change a little bit and you should have two tabs under style. One will be layout, and one will be label. It should look a little bit like this:
If you click on the label tab you will find the top two choices to be the addresses you would to print and the order in which you would like to print them. You can create groups in Address Book and print individual groups. For instance, you may have a personal group, and a business group. You can print either of the two groups without printing anything from the group not chosen. Below these two choices you can select whether you want the company name and country to be printed out as well on each individual label. This is handy when sending over seas. Then last on this page is the color you would like the font to be, font type and if you really want to drain your ink cartridges, you can print an image on each label.
Now if you select the layout tab towards the middle of this options screen, you get something of this nature:
For the page option select Avery Standard and then to the right of that, select the number associated with your blank Avery label sheets. There are other options in the page drop down as well such as DYMO or Avery A4 if you are using a diferent style label sheet. Check on the left side to make sure the preview looks correct and click that print button in the bottom right corner.
Thats it!
