Printing avery labels in address book - margins not right

I'm using Address Book to print out labels for my Christmas card envelopes.
I've got Avery J8173 labels form Staples - 2 columns and 5 rows - 10 labels per A4 sheet.
My 2 problems are:
I can't print any more than 5 lines per address - no matter what font size I use - this is annoying with a good number of my addresses, but to get round it I put 2 address elements on one line in Address Book - not a big problem.
The other problem is that the left margin of my addresses is barely 2 mm in from the left edge of the label. This doesn't look very professional. Any ideas? If I try to create a custom label I can indent the addresses in the left column by increasing the margin for the whole page, but I can't do anything about the margin in the right hand column
Any ideas?
I downloaded Avery DesignPro for Mac, but the labels I've got (J8173) aren't listed, and there are no labels in their list which match the dimensions I need. Bet the PC version is better ...

Well it all boils down to the difference between the US and the UK versions of DesignPro. I hadn't realised that I'd downloaded the US version. I trashed this and all associated files and downloaded the UK version, which has all the necessary 'templates' including J8173. Annoyingly the UK version does not have the graphical elements included with the US version. UK Customer Support told me that they were 'working on it' though why that should be such a difficult job when the US version already has this feature is beyond me!
I've still not fathomed why Address Book ...
a) makes such a mess of printing these labels - margin way too close to left edge of label
b) doesn't ley you print any more than 5 lines in an address, even when there's plenty of space
c) doesn't let you include graphical elements on labels.
Thanks, Apple for another bit of half-done software! I won't begin to mention how hard it is to print pictures from iPhoto formatted the way you want - that's for a different forum!

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