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Old 03-23-2008, 07:40 PM
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Default Web Form to Label Printer

Our website has a web form where customers can request a free catalog. The web form gets emailed to me and I end up hand addressing the envelope. Even if I had a label printer, it still seems like less work to hand address than to cut and paste 3-4 lines of address.

Is there an applet or other code that can run on the website and pass the information to a PC label printer?

This is all I use this information for and it seems archaic the way I am aggregating electronic data only to handwrite envelopes.

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Old 03-24-2008, 04:13 PM
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Default Re: Web Form to Label Printer

Store the data in a structured format then using something like MS-Word to do a mail merge (to a label) and print all the labels at once (as a print job, i.e., once a day, once a week, etc.). You could store the data in an Excel spreadsheet and keep it for historical purposes and append with new data. Then, use a criteria in mail merge to pull only records that are 'open', or a date range. Run a macro to 'flag' the changes. You could do the same thing with any database and run the labels as a report, too.

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Old 03-24-2008, 04:32 PM
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Default Re: Web Form to Label Printer

Disclaimer: I work for CardScan. Our parent company owns Dymo.

You might be able to drag and drop the contact info from your web form to CardScan; then with 2 clicks print the labels you need from CardScan to your Dymo LabelWriter. It can also print postage, so you could print out the required postage from the same LabelWriter if you had a twin printer.

If you have a large qty of people to enter you could also export the names and addresses to a csv file and upload them all to CardScan at once.

You could then upload this data into your CRM system, or use the CardScan database to follow up with these people at a later date. Just set up a category that would indicate when you would want to follow up with them and they will be easy to sort out when you are ready to contact them.

We offer a 30-day money back guarantee so you could get one and try it out to see if it solves your problem.

Sorry if this seems like an ad, I honestly feel that it could solve your problem.
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Old 03-25-2008, 11:20 AM
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Default Re: Web Form to Label Printer

Word's mail merge will also print directly on the envelopes. This eliminates the need for a label at all.

Any of NvestWeb's suggestions will work well.

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Default Re: Web Form to Label Printer

We format the inbound email to copy/paste one time and then use Stamps.com to paste and it prints the envelope and the postage.
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