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We have had, for years, a simple database tracking samples. For years, it used a simple Brady printer to produce sample labels. The whole process was seamless and easy, the database printing directly via a Windows printer driver that knew the size of the labels and treated each as a new page.
Unfortunately the old serial-port printer got too old and eventually stopped working properly, so we sourced a replacement from Brady, but life has moved on: they no longer have an appropriate product (didn't stop them from selling us something that doesn't work, but that's another story).
Surely we can't be the only people in the world who want to print directly from Access (or Excel, or Word, or whatever) without going through specialist label software?? I mean, Word is actually designed to print labels, that's one of its functions (we're actually using Access, but anything that works for one Office product - or any other properly Windows-native software - will probably work for the entire suite). What label printers do you use? I'm grateful for any suggestions. There must be a world outside Brady, and I'm now keen to discover it.