[buug] Printing mailing labels and forms?

[Bob Read]

Hey Claude,
   Could "Star Office" or some other microsoft word
knock-off for linux be able to print mailing labels
(though the last time I used star office was 2 years
ago so I can't say for sure...a quick visit to the sun
site shows that star office isn't even free anymore)

I was bored, so I did some searches like "linux
mailing labels", etc, etc on yahoo and redhat.com:

I found an awk solution that you might not have found:

http://www.linuxselfhelp.com/gnu/gawk/html_chapter/gawk_15.html#SEC203

And then I found the stuff you already found:

http://oplnk.net/~ajackson/software/maillabels/
http://snaught.com/glabels/


   Also, if you like to program, your printer is an
HP, and the "lp" command works, you could embed "PCL"
commands in the text, either inline with sed and some
pipes, or directly into a file, using vi/emacs.
   Sounds crufty, I know, but actually if you wrote a
program to do this, the program would be very clean
(you can stuff the wacky PCL strings into vars like
"$LINEFEED"), and debugging is a snap (you are sending
bytes directly to the printer, so you can debug any
problem by "dividing and conquering").
   Maybe there's a PCL perl module or C-library or
something out there already...
   Here's the hp PCL homepage, have at it if you dare:

http://www.hp.com/cposupport/printers/support_doc/bpl02705.html


--- Claude Rubinson <cmsclaud at arches.uga.edu> wrote:
> Two (possibly related) questions:
> 
> I need to be able to print (1) mailing labels and
> (2) directly onto a
> preprinted form.  I've searched through both _Unix
> Power Tools_,
> Freshmeat, and Google but haven't been able to find
> anything suitable
> (part of the problem with point 2 is that I'm not
> sure exactly what I'm
> searching for).
> 
> As to mailing labels, I did find a Perl module
> (PostScript::MailLabels)
> that seems fairly nice, but there's no documentation
> and I'm not grokking
> the source.  I'm thinking that I can probably hack
> something together
> using PSUtils but I'm also thinking that something
> else has already got to
> be out there.  (I should also note that the labels
> that I'll be printing
> on already have a logo and address printed on them,
> so whatever solution I
> use will need to be flexible enough to permit some
> customization.  I
> mention this because I did find one Gnome-based
> product which assumes
> blank labels.)
> 
> Second issue: I've got some blank forms that I need
> to print directly
> onto.  I've never read anything about this, but I
> know that people do it
> all the time.  Could someone point me towards some
> links or provide some
> search terms?  I'm not even sure what I should be
> searching Google for.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Claude
> 
> 
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