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Printing Labels in Microsoft Word

Jan 19, 2005 1:06PM PST

Hi. I am printing labels in Microsoft Word very often. Problem is, whenever I ask Word to print the document, the printer starts to flash (to confirm that I inserted the special label paper?), and until I press the start button on the printer nothing will happen. I have this with several printers.

Problem is, I'm away from my printer, and it's very hard for me to stand up every time and go to the printer just to press a button. Is there some way to eliminate this non-"feature" from Word, and just print when I ask, as any other regular document?

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There is a setting somewhere
Jan 19, 2005 7:55PM PST

Hi Sam,

There is a setting somewhere related to "Sheet feeders". If the automatic sheet feeder is selected, the page will print automatically. But if the single sheet feeder is selected, the printer waits for you to insert the sheet, (even though it may have multiple sheets in the feeder), and press the print button on the printer.

I think it is in the Page Setup option of the word processor, but I can't remember.

It may be that your page setup is set the single sheet by default.

Mark

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Look in your printer properties
Jan 27, 2005 9:39AM PST

To get to my printer properties I click on 'Printers & Faxes' in Control Panel, choose my main printer, in the new printer window click 'Printer' on menu bar then choose 'Printing Preferences', select 'Paper/Quality' tab at top then change Paper Source to 'Automatically select'. It's probably set to 'Manual Paper Feed' which is not good. Hope this helps.