Can I print more than one copy of each label?

Yes. Print and merge in Labels by Zaweba has a copies setting, so each contact in the job gets as many labels as you ask for. Set it to two and every person in the group, selection or CSV file gets two labels.

It saves running the same merge twice and setting up the job again.

When you need more than one

A small seller sending orders in more than one parcel may want a label for each box. A school or club might need one label for an envelope and another for a folder or form. Event organisers sometimes want a name label for a badge and a matching one for a bag or a seating card. Someone sending a mailing in two stages might print two of each now to save setting up the job again later.

How to set it up

Copies work with any source. If you print from a group, every member gets the number of copies you set. If you select a handful of contacts in the address book first, only they are printed, each with their copies. Rows from a CSV file behave the same way, with each row treated as one person, and every column in the file available as a field by its header.

Design your label as usual, with merge fields such as {Name} and {Address} for the parts that change. Go to Print and merge and choose who to print: a group, the selected contacts, everyone, or rows from a CSV file. Set the copies of each label. Check the live preview, which shows every sheet as it will print, then print.

The preview is the place to confirm the layout. Scroll through it and check that the number of labels matches what you expect.

Working out how many sheets you need

Multiply the number of people by the number of copies, then divide by the labels on your sheet. Forty contacts with two copies each on L7160 sheets of 21 labels comes to 80 labels, which fills three sheets and part of a fourth. The preview shows exactly how many, so you can make sure enough sheets are in the printer before you start.

If you have a part-used sheet, set the start position to the first free label. The used labels are greyed out and printing begins there.

Copies versus a whole sheet

Copies are for a merge, where each label carries different details. When every label is identical, such as your own return address, use the one label across a whole sheet option instead. That fills every position with the same design for as many sheets as you choose.

Before a large run

Check the design itself with more than one copy in mind. If labels go on several boxes from the same order, a small extra line such as a fixed word Parcel, or the person's notes field, can help whoever unpacks them. Merge fields drop blank lines and any line whose fields are all empty, so an optional line only appears where there is something to show.

If the job is big or the sheet type is new, test on plain paper first. Export a PDF with label outlines, print it at actual size and hold it against a label sheet. If the labels drift, Print > Calibrate a printer saves a correction for that printer and applies it to everything printed on it from then on.