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Re: Printing addresses on a #10 envelope (US)?

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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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Printing addresses on a #10 envelope (US)? Nate Bargmann <n0nb@n0nb.us> - 2021-05-10 18:00 +0200
  Re: Printing addresses on a #10 envelope (US)? ghe2001 <ghe2001@protonmail.com> - 2021-05-10 20:30 +0200
    Re: Printing addresses on a #10 envelope (US)? Nate Bargmann <n0nb@n0nb.us> - 2021-05-11 04:10 +0200
  Re: Printing addresses on a #10 envelope (US)? deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2021-05-10 22:20 +0200
    Re: Printing addresses on a #10 envelope (US)? Nate Bargmann <n0nb@n0nb.us> - 2021-05-11 04:20 +0200
  Re: Printing addresses on a #10 envelope (US)? "Russell L. Harris" <russell@rlharris.org> - 2021-05-10 23:10 +0200
    Re: Printing addresses on a #10 envelope (US)? deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2021-05-11 00:20 +0200
      Re: Printing addresses on a #10 envelope (US)? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2021-05-11 08:50 +0200
        Re: Printing addresses on a #10 envelope (US)? deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2021-05-11 09:50 +0200
          Re: Printing addresses on a #10 envelope (US)? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2021-05-11 10:00 +0200
            Re: Printing addresses on a #10 envelope (US)? deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2021-05-11 11:00 +0200
      Re: Printing addresses on a #10 envelope (US)? David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2021-05-11 17:20 +0200
        Re: Printing addresses on a #10 envelope (US)? deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2021-05-11 18:40 +0200
          (OT) Jokes, lprng and old cars [was: Printing addresses on a #10  envelope (US)?] <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2021-05-11 19:20 +0200
            Re: (OT) Jokes, lprng and old cars [was: Printing addresses on a #10  envelope (US)?] tomas@tuxteam.de - 2021-05-11 21:00 +0200
            Re: (OT) Jokes, lprng and old cars [was: Printing addresses on a #10  envelope (US)?] "Russell L. Harris" <russell@rlharris.org> - 2021-05-11 21:00 +0200
            Re: (OT) Jokes, lprng and old cars [was: Printing addresses on a #10 envelope (US)?] deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2021-05-12 09:10 +0200
        Re: Printing addresses on a #10 envelope (US)? "Russell L. Harris" <russell@rlharris.org> - 2021-05-11 18:50 +0200
    Re: Printing addresses on a #10 envelope (US)? Nate Bargmann <n0nb@n0nb.us> - 2021-05-11 04:30 +0200
      Re: Printing addresses on a #10 envelope (US)? "Russell L. Harris" <russell@rlharris.org> - 2021-05-11 06:50 +0200
  Re: Printing addresses on a #10 envelope (US)? Nate Bargmann <n0nb@n0nb.us> - 2021-05-11 18:30 +0200
    Re: Printing addresses on a #10 envelope (US)? Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2021-05-11 18:50 +0200
      Re: Printing addresses on a #10 envelope (US)? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2021-05-11 19:30 +0200
        Re: Printing addresses on a #10 envelope (US)? Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2021-05-15 10:40 +0200
          [OT] developing envelopes [was: Printing addresses on a #10 envelope  (US)?] <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2021-05-15 10:50 +0200
  Re: Printing addresses on a #10 envelope (US)? Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2021-05-12 11:20 +0200

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