Label printing guides
Everything here comes from the same place: labels are unforgiving. A 3% scaling error is invisible on a letter and ruins a sheet of labels. These are the things worth knowing before you print.
- Why labels print off centerThe three real causes — page scaling, printer feed offset and the wrong sheet — and how to tell them apart.
- The print settings that ruin labelsWhere scale, paper size and margins live in Chrome, Adobe Reader, Windows and macOS, and what to set them to.
- Printing on a partly used sheetHow to count label positions, skip the ones already gone, and why you should never re-feed a sheet through a laser printer.
- Printing labels from Google SheetsTwo ways to get a Google Sheet onto a label sheet without installing an add-on or granting access to your Drive.
If you only read one thing
Print on plain paper first and hold it over an unused label sheet against a window. It costs one sheet of paper and catches every problem on this page before it costs you a box of labels.
Turn on Print label outlines in the tool for that test print, so you can see exactly where each label edge falls on the paper.