Tractor Feed Labels - No Margins

[evalesthy]

I have a tractor feed label (continuous roll) that is 3/8 high by 2" wide and 3 across (So 6" wide + tractor tear offs).

I started by modifying a typical label but that does work well. I am having trouble with having no margins between labels either vertically or horizontally. After trial and error I can get 1 page to print OK but once I hit the page feed it is then off of vertical alignment. The horizontal alignment is off somewhat due to no margins there either - but is 'acceptable'. Given the small size of these labels there is really no room for error - off by a little and you are soon off the label.

I think this needs to be built from the ground up. Can someone walks me through all the steps of building a custom label like this. (E.g. Label design, Page Setup settings, etc. I want to learn how to do this correctly. I have search the web and found no good examples/tutorials on this topic. Many thanks in advance

I know this can be done as I have seen a commercial app that does exactly this label in a proprietary Access printing app (no real database component) - but it has no interface capabilities with other applications and my data resides in my application. It makes no sense for user to exit my app and re-enter label data in a proprietary app.

 

[Remou]

If you have a look at this:

http://www.data-label.com/list/details/D175383.html

It shows measurement that could then be used with the label wizard to create a customized tractor label size (Access 2000 Customize, New buttons). That should be a start.

 

[evalesthy]

I appreciate the link. However, it does not address the primary problems I am having of how to design a label that has NO margins either vertically or horizontally or how to address issues like page feed which then push the labels out of alignment due to their very small vertical size.

As per my original post I would appreciate assistance on how to size the report in design view and how to approach all the parameters on all 3 tabs (margins, page, columns) of the Page Setup form. The margins settings for example does not allow a 0" setting yet I am dealing with no (0") margins.