During the design phase and during printing this causes problems because Word expects the printer's orientation to mean the same thing as its own page orientation. Your printer however, appears to interpret its orientation setting as pertaining to the text on the label (no matter the height and width of the label), where portrait means horizontally printed text and landscape sideways printed text. When designing your continuous-feed label template you'll find that when you set the page height to match the label's height and the page width to match the label's width, Word automatically adjusts the setting of the page's orientation to landscape if the label is wider than it is high or to portrait if the label is taller than it is wide: so Word is talking about the page's orientation.
No problem you'd think, but there's a snag: there's a longstanding issue which prevents you from printing from within Word in the printer's portrait mode (horizontally printed text) when the labels are wider than they are high (as the labels in the image below) and likewise prevents you from printing in the printer's landscap mode (text printed sideways) when the labels are taller than they are wide. If those don't match, Word will prevent you from laying out your continuous-feed label template as you like: it will automatically change margins and such and will generate several warnings about non-matching page sizes and margins when you actually try printing to such a template. The challenging match between Word document properties and printing preferencesįor printing from within Word it's important that your template page size matches the label page size as set up in the printer's printing preferences, as well as the page's orientation in both configurations. You can use it as an ad hoc template or have it set up as an output format like any other predefined output format for a normal Word template. This allows you to create a label-sized Word template to print record data to. If your (continuous-feed) label printer supports it (tested okay on a Zebra TLP 2844-Z and Intermec PM43 printer), you can in principle print Word documents to it, containing even images (printed in black and white) and/or barcodes.
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