Hi Luke,
Sorry for late reply, I don’t think there’s a straightforward way to do it in the plugin currently. Any other option would also add extra export/import steps (maybe via PDF), which would make the whole process painfully inconvenient.
Such functionality in theory can be developed (setting sheet settings, etc. like in one of the screenshots of this 3rd party Chrome plugin), but the worst case scenario is also the most common – which is printing a single label on a partially used sheet. The overhead of dealing with the printer, feeding the sheet over and over and the inconvenience of tracking/choosing the correct placement, in my opinion is not worth the effort (both as developer and as user).
Though there is one use case in which you can essentially “combine” labels sheets with a dedicated thermal label printer – that is printing sets of branded stickers with return address/social media tags, etc. Especially if you can print them in color. So you leave the “plain address labels” to the dedicated label printer.
A lady at my previous workplace, where I initially developed the plugin, did use adhesive labels sheets for that, but used to write the address manually. That’s when I figured I have to do something about it ??
From what I recall, she was using Microsoft Word specifically for its Mailings > Labels functionality. Because while printers have page size settings – they don’t support any “label sheet” type of pages. So the software (in this case MS Word) is doing the layout management heavy lifting. Ideally we would have native OS / printer settings support for something like “print pages into labels” and some user interface, but sadly tech giants tend to ignore real world problems lol.
Dima
