Printing Avery Labels with the ColdFusion MX 7 Report Builder

Becoming Familiar with Page and Label Dimensions

Avery has been creating label products since the mid 1930s. Their labels have become so popular that even labels created by other manufacturers bear the Avery standard number on their box. The labels you print from in this article are page based, usually 8.5 x 11 inches, and depending on the size of the labels, can have from 1-80 labels per page. If you can’t find the dimensions in the documentation or from the manufacturer’s website, you must manually measure the dimensions below:

• Page Width – Width of the page
• Page Height – Height of the page
• Label Width – Width of a single label
• Label Height – Height of a single label
• Top Margin – Distance between the first row of labels and the top of the page
• Bottom Margin – Distance between the last row of labels and the bottom of the page
• Left Margin – Distance between the first column of labels and the left edge of the page
• Right Margin – Distance between the label and the right edge of the page
• Columns – Number of label columns
• Horizontal Spacing – The distance horizontally between labels (only needed if more than 1 column of labels)

Entering Page / Label Dimensions in the Report Builder Fields

Now that you have all of the page and label dimensions, you need to identify where to enter them into the Report Builder. The table below shows the relation between the label dimensions and the fields in Report Builder. I have included the dimensions of the Avery® 5160 label that I use for this example. The templates for Avery 5160, 5161, 5162, 5163, 5164, and 5167 are included in the sample files.

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