[LOGic] Dot Matrix QSL Labels

Wed Nov 30 22:12:31 EST 2005

I recently picked up a used dot matrix printer for use with a one-at-time
label printing application. It would be nice to use this with Logic if I
could print a label or two at a time. No wasted labels. No need to put a
partially used laser label sheet back through a printer and risk having a
label pull off and really jam the thing-as they warn you the sheets are
designed to go through only once. I was hoping to find a dot matrix QSL
label report in Logic, but have not so far. I was also hoping that the
print dialog would let me select the printer and be able to specify just
which label form I am using. This works from within Microsoft Word, but I
can't select anything other than 8.5X11, legal size, or a few others using
the Windows printer settings. Word must somehow provide a more
sophisticated print driver. All of this can be worked around, but the one
thing that I have not figured out is how to prevent a page feed from being
sent after all the labels specified are printed. If I want one label I get
it and the rest on the equivalent of an 8.5X11 page are left blank-and you
should not roll paper in a dot matrix-especially labels-backwards. If I
want two labels, the two print and again I get the 8.5X11 line feed. 

Does anyone on this rather quiet reflector have experience in writing a QSL
label report for a dot matrix printer? If so please tell me how you wrote
it and mail me a copy.

Bob W2WG