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Avery Easy Peel 1 x4 Inch White Address Labels 500 Count (8161)

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With all regard to the intelligence of everyone concerned, I believe that these "Easy Peel" address labels are meant to peel easily off of the substrate to which they are already attached before being used. NOT to peel easily off of whatever you put the labels on after they are printed! After all, you have to get them off of the substrate in order to put them on whatever you are going to put them on! If you could not get them off of the substrate, you would not be able to use them. Of what use would they be then? And when I put an address label on an envelope to be mailed, I DO NOT want them to peel easily off of the envelope! If they did, then the envelope would be going through the mail without an address! Bummer!

- Jack Bray

These labels work great with the Avery MS Word or OpenOffice templates. I have been able to print graphics on these every time with tight tolerances on my inkjet printer. I use these to label homebrew beer bottles. They come off easy with a five minute water soak.

I've been looking for labels like this for a long time that are actually easy to peel of the page. These are great!

Our town's energy committee recently had a project for which we needed about 250 peel-off labels. Our plan was to distribute 250 CFL (compact fluorescent) light bulbs free at our town's community day (sort of like a street fair) in order to encourage people to use the bulbs to reduce electricity use. CFL light bulbs can save about 75 percent on electricity over incandescent bulbs. For the 250 bulbs, we calculated that for 8000 hours of use and an electric cost of $0.10/KWh the total savings vs. 100 watt incandescent bulbs for all the bulbs would be about $15,000. There would also be a saving of 94 tons of carbon dioxide emission.

Avery Address Labels were a good choice for adding a label indicating the savings for using the bulbs and our committee's name. The question was how to get the information printed on the labels. At the Avery web site, I found free software, DesignPro, which makes it possible to produce label designs for different label sizes. I downloaded the software easily and got started on the design

For the labels, there were about a dozen pre-made templates for the different size labels. I chose the template that matched my labels. Using DesignPro was a little like using PowerPoint. I was able to cut and paste a graphics image, add the appropriate text, and choose a font for the text. A test run on my printer produced a beautiful matrix of labels. The only problem was to find out which side of the label stock had to be up. I can never remember. After an up/down test, I had my sheets of labels printed in no time.

Our community day give-away was a big success. Our free light bulbs lasted about four hours. We were able to peel the labels from the printed sheets easily. There was enough time to peel and apply the labels as we gave away the CFLs. One surprise is that we had to have a sales pitch even for give-aways. The other surprise was that many people had never seen CFLs before. I am now a big fan of Avery labels, but I recommend getting the free software to make them work.

These labels were supposed to be easy peel. However when used to label bottles, they stick as tightly as any other label and are NOT easy peel.

I use this product on a regular basis and rely on them in my business. I've tried generics before, but they just didn't cut it. Avery is a little more expensive, but very reliable and always worth the extra pennies.