Printing just a few labels in middle of the page

[e3digital]

I'm not at all sure this is the right place for this post, but I think it's a good guess...:-)

I have a client who prints label on Avery 5160 sheets (3 columns of 10 labels each). There are many situations where they will print only 9 labels, for example, which leaves 21 of them wasted. They save the sheet and put it in the printer the other direction the next time if they are printing fewer than 21, but they still end up with a lot of wasted labels, which bothers them more than me, but... :-)

Anyway, my idea is to write a script that would do something like this:

--create enough empty records to equal the number of "missing" labels (in the previous hypothetical this would be 9),(entered by the user via a pause in the script),

--enter a character in a field that would allow the new 9 to be found with the actual records to be printed,

--sort by something that would put the empties first,

--print,

--delete the new empty records.

Does this make sense? Or, does anyone have a better way of doing it?

Thanks,

Susan

[Vaughan]

This comes up regularly, do a forum search and see what wisdom others used.

The clients obviously don't use a laser printer, otherwise it'd be toast from the waxy backing sheet melting in the fuser roller.