Problem printing labels and envelopes from Address Book

I am very frustrated by the impossibility, when printing labels or envelopes from Address Book, of including both an individual name and a company name on the label or envelope. The Address book will only print one or the other. When sending correspondence to a person in a large company or building, the correspondence will not get to that person with only the company name or the individual name. It shocks me that in all these years I have been a Mac user, Apple has never noticed and fixed this fundamental problem. I would now like to buy an Ipod or an Ipad, but I am reluctant because I do not want to have to sync my addresses to Apple's juvenile address book. Is there any solution to this?

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"It shocks me that in all these years I have been a Mac user, Apple has never noticed and fixed this fundamental problem.
Is there any solution to this?"
Upgrade to Snow Leopard!
Or check out the Mail & Address Book - Tiger Forums & ask if there is a work-a-round.
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Problems printing labels and envelopes with related names

When I try and print out labels for Christmas cards from Address Book, the program creates the first line of the label with the name on the Address Book "card", plus the names of the "Related Name" entries on the card. This works for most cards except in the following situation.
The Related Name field (Spouse, Child, etc.) does a 'fuzzy lookup' to match other cards in the Address Book database. If there is another card with the same name as one of the related names, the address is checked to see if the address matches. If it matches (or if there is no card that matches the related name), Address Book will include the related name on address labels. (Address information is required for this test since Address Book will not print a label for a card that does not have and address.) This was the source of my first problem as I had a card for a related name that had an old address on it, so Address Book chose not to print that related name on the labels as they did not live at the same address. I agree with this logic.
The real problem is revealed when you add a related name to a card in which the first name of the related name matches the first name of another card which is NOT the same person. So I have a card for "John Hart", and on that card I have two relate names, a Spouse of "Nancy Hart" and a Child of "Eric Hart". I also have a card for "Nancy Hart" with a Spouse of "John Hart" and a child of "Eric Hart" and the address matches that on the card of "John Hart". If I print a label for "John Hart", Address Book properly prints "John, Nancy and Eric Hart". Now if I add a card for "Eric Smith" and either have a different address or no address at all on that card, when I print a label for "John Hart" Address Book will print "John and Nancy Hart", effectively losing the child. I can only think that Apple made the search for related cards TOO FUZZY and forgot to include the last name in the search.
Apple... are you out there? Please help!!!
PS: My full database has many records that are incurring this problem, and it's annoying.
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After going through 3 2nd level support personnel, I finally reached one who cared enough to actually type in what I asked him to, and then to research the findings.
As I pointed out above, Address Book compares the related names with the other cards in the database. If there is no card for the specific related name, Address Book will stop at a record with a matching first name and then compare addresses. If the addresses do not match, it will not print the related name. The support rep stated that hopefully in future version this might be refined.
AS A WORKAROUND, he suggested I create cards for any of the related names on my cards. Once this is done, and the cards have matching addresses, all of the related names on the selected card for label or envelope printing are printed.

Cannot print name and company from address book...

When you choose to show and sort by COMPANY in address book, though there is also a person in the entry, only the company shows when you print using Mac's print options.
If the PERSON is shown and sorted on, then the COMPANY can also appear. But not other way around.
Is there a 3rd party software that gets by this?
I'm switching from PC, and this is the sort of nonsense I thought I was leaving.

Welcome to Discussions
Yes real pain this problem
I use SnailMail from http://nixanz.com/ it does a good job
Read the info about setting up and it should do most things but it is really for envelopes not labels but I think labels could be done with a bit of thought
Happy New Year
chris

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I was able to print out an entry from my address book onto an envelope--easily and intuitively even
for an over sized envelope. However, I can't figure out how to get both the return address name (mine) and the recipient's name to print with first name before last name. How do I do this?

Go to preferences int the address book. Select 'general' tab and you should see option to display first name before or after last name. Select the way you want.
Then select an entry, go to print... select 'envelope' and you should be able to see a preview of how it will print. Cheers!!
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Hello captfred! Thank you for your reply. I tried to do what you suggested but it seems that it only works for cards in my contacts or for my own card. My problem is within the settings under label when I am printing from Address Book.
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I was having this problem too! *Many* thanks to you!
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I followed your advice and created a custom envelope and just to clarify for any future reader. The "rotate 90 degrees" is changed under the "orientation" tab by simply selecting the layout with the picture sideways inside of straight up and down.
Second, the size change you mentioned is for the "Height," naturally, not the Width.
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