TS4147 Duplicate contacts when printing

Hi— So I don't seem to have duplicates in my contacts in address book or in iCloud.... but when I print labels or envelopes a number of contacts are duplicated. Thoughts?

Yea! I found the solution.
Set up
1. Go to settings/icloud on your iphone/ipad and switch contact sync on
2. In itunes, turn off itunes sync by unchecking "sync contacts" in the info tab for your iphone/ipad. This will allow you to sync over icloud
3. Now sync your iphone/ipad in itunes to upload all of your contacts to icloud
4. Go to icloud.com to ensure all of your contacts are uploaded successfully
Step 4 confirms that your contacts are "in the cloud"
Clean up
5. Go to setting/icloud on your iphone/ipad and switch contact sync off
6. Delete your contacts from your iphone/ipad by selecting "Delete from My iPhone"
7. Switch contact sync back on
8. In itunes, sync your iphone/ipad to download your icloud contacts back to your iphone/ipad
Your duplicates will now be gone and all contacts will be matched up with icloud. After performing this procedure, the problem may disappear permanently.

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