Re: Printing addresses on a #10 envelope (US)?
On Tue 11 May 2021 at 00:17:12 (+0200), deloptes wrote:
> Russell L. Harris wrote:
>
> > I use a dot-matrix printer with tractor feed to print self-adhesive
> > address labels. There is no formatting; just several lines of plain
> > text, one address per file. There is no driver; the printer is
> > managed by CUPS to receive "raw" data. I print labels using the "lpr"
> > command.
>
> And the year is 1998 :D
You can go back two more decades. I recall writing a stand-alone
program to print a learned society's mailing labels on a Decwriter.
For me it was an exercise, as I had only written OS360/370 assembler
to extend FortranIV until then. For the subscription secretary, it
enabled a faster turnround as we didn't have to persuade the operators
to load sticky labels on their busy lineprinters. Less waste too:
I still have clean fanfold labels that they jettisoned after lining
up the lineprinters all those years ago.
Cheers,
David.
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