{"id":2781,"date":"2014-05-29T11:44:58","date_gmt":"2014-05-29T16:44:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.splasmata.com\/?p=2781"},"modified":"2014-05-29T11:53:35","modified_gmt":"2014-05-29T16:53:35","slug":"return-labels-beautiful-return-address-labels-for-less-than-5-bucks-and-not-another-12-step-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.splasmata.com\/?p=2781","title":{"rendered":"Return Labels:  Create beautiful return address labels on your Mac for less than 5 bucks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"color: #676767;\">The first time you try to print your own return address labels on your Mac, where every printed label has the same name and address, might be the last time.\u00c2\u00a0 A typical Mac user would think, printing the same thing on every label should &#8220;just work&#8221;, right?\u00c2\u00a0 Open Contacts or Address Book, select a contact, go to the File menu to print, hum a little tune, look for an option to print a page of labels instead of a single label, and&#8230; \u00c2\u00a0But wait. \u00c2\u00a0That option isn&#8217;t there.\u00c2\u00a0 Instead, you&#8217;ll have to:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Open Contacts or Address Book.<\/li>\n<li>Select a contact.<\/li>\n<li>Copy the contact.<\/li>\n<li>Paste the contact the exact number of labels that are on your label paper (usually 30 or 40 will do).<\/li>\n<li>Select the original contact and all of the 30 or 40 duplicates you just made.<\/li>\n<li>Go to the File menu and click the Print&#8230; menu item.<\/li>\n<li>Choose a label template.<\/li>\n<li>Choose a font.<\/li>\n<li>Choose an image (optional).<\/li>\n<li>Click the Print button.<\/li>\n<li>Decide to live with the duplicate contacts so you can skip some steps next time.<\/li>\n<li>Remove the duplicate contacts because they get in the way.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p style=\"color: #676767;\">It&#8217;s not so bad, really, and, unlike many\u00c2\u00a012-step programs, at least you get consistent results. \u00c2\u00a0To be honest, there <em>are<\/em> general-purpose label apps out there &#8211; but they&#8217;re a little pricey, and then you&#8217;re out $20 or more for something you&#8217;d kinda expect to be easier and cheaper. \u00c2\u00a0That&#8217;s why we made <b><a title=\"Return Labels on the Mac App Store\" href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/app\/return-labels\/id776124962?ls=1&amp;mt=12\" target=\"_blank\">Return Labels<\/a><\/b>.\u00c2\u00a0 For less than $5, pre-tax, you get an app designed to make return address labels on your Mac, with any combination of font, style, color, or whathaveyou, a beautiful collection of built-in images to choose from (you can drag in your own, too), and an easy way to browse and print your creations later on.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #676767;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.splasmata.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Gallery.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-2788 alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.splasmata.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Gallery-1024x640.jpg\" alt=\"Return Labels\" width=\"640\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.splasmata.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Gallery-1024x640.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.splasmata.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Gallery-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #676767;\"><a title=\"Return Labels on the Mac App Store\" href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/app\/return-labels\/id776124962?ls=1&amp;mt=12\" target=\"_blank\">Return Labels<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s easy.\u00c2\u00a0 It won&#8217;t break the bank.\u00c2\u00a0 And you get beautiful return address labels, to boot.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Return Labels on splasm.com\" href=\"http:\/\/splasm.com\/returnlabels\" target=\"_blank\">Learn more about Return Labels<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Return Labels on the Mac App Store\" href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/app\/return-labels\/id776124962?ls=1&amp;mt=12\" target=\"_blank\">See\u00c2\u00a0Return Labels on the Mac App Store<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Return Labels is the first project for our new guy, <a title=\"William &quot;Ethereal Transistor&quot; Gill\" href=\"http:\/\/splasm.com\/contact\" target=\"_blank\">William Gill<\/a>, who joined our team last year. \u00c2\u00a0William came with a wealth of programming experience, and took the lead coder position to learn as much as possible about\u00c2\u00a0developing Mac apps. \u00c2\u00a0<a title=\"Allan &quot;Phosphorescent Phage&quot; Woodall\" href=\"http:\/\/splasm.com\/contact\" target=\"_blank\">Allan Woodall<\/a>, our lead user support specialist, dug up tons of bugs in the process. \u00c2\u00a0Excellent job, William and Allan!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first time you try to print your own return address labels on your Mac, where every printed label has the same name and address, might be the last time.\u00c2\u00a0 A typical Mac user would think, printing the same thing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.splasmata.com\/?p=2781\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-return-labels"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splasmata.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splasmata.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splasmata.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splasmata.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splasmata.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2781"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.splasmata.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2797,"href":"https:\/\/www.splasmata.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2781\/revisions\/2797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splasmata.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splasmata.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splasmata.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}