Teryc Sez

Gahhhhh! I didn’t know printing on a number 10 envelope was going to
be such a can of worms. The thing is, if a program has a bug or something
confusing in it, I seem to be able to find it quickly. Such was the case when
I went to use OpenOffice 3.1 to print a number 10 envelope for the first time.
It seemed like it was going to be simple at first. Click on “Insert”, then “Envelope”
and then fill in the blanks and then print it. But no, it wasn’t that easy. There
was in the window I was typing in a little rectangle which I supposed was there
to show me how the envelope was going to look as I adjusted the sender or receiver
address up and down or side to side. Only thing is, the little rectangle which
is supposed to, I guess, show something, DOES NOT WORK! It seems like
envelope printing dialogue in OpenOffice is not ready for primetime yet. Just
my luck I find what is probably one of the few things which does not work in OO.
Actually, it does work, but it is not intuitive. And the little rectangle doesn’t
work no matter what. I eventually was able to get things to work by downloading
an OpenOffice template for printing number 10 envelopes but even that I had
to adjust somewhat so it would print on the envelope near where it should be
printing. I offer up my version of the number 10 envelope template here for
download. It works for me. Your mileage may vary, of course, and I am not
responsible should your printer break. And I hope some day the OpenOffice
developers get the envelope dialogue to actually show something in the little
rectangle. And yes, I know if I want something to work I should fix it myself.
Believe me, if I knew how, I would. Here’s a zip file for you windows users.

The number 10 envelope is inserted into the c4680 printer with the skinny
end first and with the flap on top looking at you and attached on the right. It took
me a while to figure this out. I guess different printers expect letters to be
fed in a certain way. I must have wasted at least 10 envelopes figuring all this
stuff out.

teryc