Justin Posted September 18, 2002 Share Posted September 18, 2002 For a while now, I've been looking for a laser-printable invoice form with an integrated shipping label. This would allow me to print a single page, peel off the shipping label off the page, slap the label on the box, and put the page -- now sans label -- inside the box as a receipt / packing slip / shipment manifest. After many fruitless searches, I seem to have come across something that looks like it might work. Have a gander at the following page: http://www.softwareforms.com/invoiceUSL.htm (The displayed image is small and hard to see, but perhaps you'll get the general idea...) Has anyone written a modified version of /admin/invoice.php that will print cleanly on a form such as this one? If somebody's already written a version that will print nicely on a form like this, I'll simply go buy that form, stick it in my laser printer, and be happy. Otherwise, I imagine I'll have to hack away at the invoice.php file until I can get it to print properly on the form mentioned above. Does anybody have a good system for something like this? If not, what is everybody doing to automate the process? Cheers, Justin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seCret steVe Posted September 18, 2002 Share Posted September 18, 2002 you mean this???? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Justin Posted September 18, 2002 Author Share Posted September 18, 2002 Yeah, Steve -- that's the one. Where did you find this image? Are you using this packing slip form with OSC? Any additional info you can provide would be great. :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jasonv Posted September 19, 2002 Share Posted September 19, 2002 i've been on the same hunt as you for a long time. i *found* the form recently, the problem is i found it when i placed an order with a competitor to see how they fulfilled things. not sure I can rightly send them an email asking them where they got their form. :D it was literally a blank 2-part form with a label area cut out in the upper right quadrant of the page. That would be MUCH easier to align properly. If only I could find the darn thing! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paulblo Posted September 20, 2002 Share Posted September 20, 2002 I have also been looking for something like that. I settled for printing my own packing slips from a web browser and printing out shipping labels using UPS worldshipper. I setup my database to import data into the shipping software. I went to some printing companies any they told me that most of the packing slips/shipping label papers are custom. I hope we find somthing.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CC Posted September 20, 2002 Share Posted September 20, 2002 Well if you guys find anything please let me know also, or post it here. I need to find the UK based equivilant, I am sure some of the other UK based guys need them too. Shout up if you have any news anyone! CC. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guyver Posted September 21, 2002 Share Posted September 21, 2002 I've been doing it in EXCEL for a yr, and its just about bursting at the seems. I've been hunting down a 'proper' accounting/stock control prog. for a while, and the best so far is MYOB, plus they also do 'pre-printed' forms. Check this link http://www.myob.co.uk/service/forms/index.htm The s/w aint bad either, alot more flexible than quickbooks pro.... John[/url] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wwwwizard Posted October 4, 2002 Share Posted October 4, 2002 I have found a great form for this purpose. It took around 4 months, but a friend works in a company that uses the perfect thing. It is an 8 1/2 by 11 inch sheet of paper, with a 3 X 2 1/2 inch shipping label sticker in the top right hand corner. The difference between this form and others I've found is that the invoice area is paper, with a sticker area in the shipping label area. Other forms are all sticker. It took me about 10 minutes to modify shippinglabel.psd to properly align on this form. The company is called Heritage Printing, and you need to speak to Dale Lemon. Their phone # is +1 (714) 973-1003. Please tell him that Jeff Sherwood from BIGWORDS.com sent you. I don't make any money off of that, but I told him I was going to tell you guys and girls, and I'm interested to know how many calls he gets. The forms are $83 US for 1,000 forms. That seemed on the high side to me, until I realized that it was way cheaper than buying boxes of 25 forms from office despot (and they don't have what we need anyway). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted December 21, 2002 Share Posted December 21, 2002 I too would like a UK version I have found this, but I think its the same as mentioned above, you can buy them from amazon! http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00...7903094-3834317 Theres another here http://pcform.safeshopper.com/40/cat40.htm?943 also a double on that page that you can use to give the customer a return label if you wish! Another, custom made, could be expensive http://www.ncr.com/products/supplies/sup_l...product.asp.htm This one looks ideal http://www.integratedlabels.com/ ok thats enough searching for our US friends, for us people in the UK I found the following http://www.westside.uk.com/flowforms/ Look under special products, I have sent an email and will upate you! These do them too http://www.centrereed.co.uk/ although a bit of emailing might be needed. The misses is moaning so I have to go, for those interested I have ascertained that the sheets go under the following names if someone wants to carry on searching! integrated labels lable/form Combinations laser sheets with peel-off label inkjet sheets W/Peel-off label hope that help people, keep me informed :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Justin Posted December 23, 2002 Author Share Posted December 23, 2002 All of the forms mentioned in the last couple posts use labels that are 4 x 2.5 inches. I'm trying to create an automated system whereby the mailing labels that UPS and USPS output from their web shipping forms are printed on these 4"x2.5" labels, but their oversized labels simply don't fit. Both UPS and USPS appear to output "labels" that cover half a page and are supposed to be folded and inserted into clear plastic containers that get stuck on the box. I'd like to eliminate the extra piece of paper and the clear plastic "manifest holder" thing, but I have no idea how to get these oversized pre-formatted "labels" to fit on a standard 4"x2.5" label like the ones on the blank forms mentioned in this thread. I have tried resizing the images in Photoshop, but the resulting labels look distorted and probably can't be read properly by bar code scanners. Does anyone know of any solutions to this problem? It would be great if there were a way to directly get the proper UPS/USPS bar codes and other needed information printed directly onto the invoice/label combo form via some kind of UPS/USPS API instead of having to manually re-key data from the OSC database into a separate USP/USPS web shipping form and then print out a separate piece of paper. I can't imagine I'm the only one who finds this to be a colossal pain in the arse. Has anyone found any good solutions? Thanks in advance, Justin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted January 6, 2003 Share Posted January 6, 2003 Whilst doing my search for sites above, I must have left some details at one of the sites. I received a parcel full of different papers with labels integrated into them, if anyone wants me to post them up I will, if not dont worry! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nick Posted January 6, 2003 Share Posted January 6, 2003 I'm definitely interested. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted January 6, 2003 Share Posted January 6, 2003 Ok may take a few days im off to london towards the end of the week, so really busy. But will let you know when i have them scanned in and sorted :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nick Posted January 14, 2003 Share Posted January 14, 2003 Ok may take a few days im off to london towards the end of the week, so really busy. But will let you know when i have them scanned in and sorted :) Any news???? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted January 15, 2003 Share Posted January 15, 2003 Just back from our great ol capital, have been catching up, i will try and get them done tomorrow for you. If you havent heard anything by friday pm me and remind me! Loads of work to get through! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted January 15, 2003 Share Posted January 15, 2003 Ok, I have only scanned one sheet in, see below. basically the company can make sheets of any type and kind. The sheet below, the two blue boxes at the top are both labels, that can be peeled, the backing to them goes across the entire sheet, and so any size label can be produced. I have emailed the company to get some idea of prices etc, and whether they can provide them unprinted, so you can put your own designs on. They did send me some other bits, like incorporated membership cards, a blank sheet with one label. Some pre printed with bar codes, and numbered. When i have an idea of price I will post that up too, I think the blank sheets with a large label would be good. Any other reccomendations, and i will ask. Any more questions just ask, I can also put up the blurb that come in the brochure they sent me too! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rthrash Posted January 16, 2003 Share Posted January 16, 2003 Here's a few more alternatives. No direct experiece, but thought it was worth a shot... http://www.relyco.com/integrated_labels.htm http://www.chicagotag.com/labeltag.htm Hope this helps. Quote Ryan Thrash Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted January 16, 2003 Share Posted January 16, 2003 Ok, Got a reply Hi Paul Yes you can have plain ones - and the labels can be whatever size you want them to be. If you can give us an idea of size and quantities - I can get prices back to you. If you guys let me know what size labels you want and I can get some prices, maybe then one of us can buy a bulk load and distribute them to members, so we can take advantage of bulk prices. let me know what you guys are after size wise! :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rthrash Posted January 16, 2003 Share Posted January 16, 2003 If you guys let me know what size labels you want and I can get some prices, maybe then one of us can buy a bulk load and distribute them to members, so we can take advantage of bulk prices. let me know what you guys are after size wise! :) Whatever works for printing out a web-generated UPS/FedEx shipping label. I think that means a 4.5"x5" for FedEx (wide) and 4.5"x6" (tall) for UPS. I'd say order 4.5x6 and rotate graphics on form if needed for FedEx. (That's roughly 115mmx153mm for those viewing this from across the pond :) ) The 4.5x6 size on the right side of an invoice/shipping sheet is a pretty big chunk of real estate. Paul might have a stock die to manufacture the integrated label forms so there won't have to be any custom die setup charge. I've found several places with 4.5x2" labels on 8.5x11" paper at the top for under $100 per 1500 forms. My gut feeling tells me that they're all reselling the same forms from the same supplier. In fact, I think there is a standard 4.5x7" label across the bottom of the page that would work out of the box, although that eats a lot of form real estate. Maybe that's why the original scan of the label/form at the top of this page was on legal (8.5x14 paper)... BTW, what company is Paul from any way? Quote Ryan Thrash Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted January 16, 2003 Share Posted January 16, 2003 I presumbe your talking about me, im not from a label company, I just saw the start of this thread and started making some enquiries. So I am not working for or making anything, but I have been in touch with a few companys one of which has been very helpfull, and so I am going as a go between just for you nice folks on these forums. Hope that answers your questions? I will enquire about an A4 sheet of paper, with a 4.5" x 6" label across the bottom/top. Personally i think this is to big for me as I dont use UPS or fedex and neither do many retailers in the UK, so i will enquire about a form with a standard shipping label too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rthrash Posted January 16, 2003 Share Posted January 16, 2003 Sorry for the confusion... I'd focus on what you need. I'll probably order the stock forms with the 4.5x7 label at the bottom. Hopfully I'll be able to get them microperf'd and in 8.5x14. A4 paper size isn't really all that common in the states. Thanks for your help! Quote Ryan Thrash Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted January 16, 2003 Share Posted January 16, 2003 Its no problem, im sure there are loads of people who want the same as you, if you let me know what size paper you are looking for i should have a price within a few days. Let me know what size paper you want with the bigger labels, theres no harm in asking! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jasonv Posted January 16, 2003 Share Posted January 16, 2003 http://www.pcform.com/intlabels.asp This is pretty much exactly what I've been looking for. I'm gonna check pricing and if it works out, I'll order a batch and modify the invoice and packing slip scripts to position the ship-to label properly. If anybody has already done that work for other labels, I would love to have a head start :-). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted January 20, 2003 Share Posted January 20, 2003 Heres the reply I got! PLAIN INTEGRATED LABEL FORMA4 single part form on 90gsm preprint - boxed in 1000. label size 100mm x 70mm. 1000 @ ?208.32/1000 + VAT 5000 @ ?64.51/1000 + VAT 20000 @ ?38.79/1000 + VAT OR A4 single part form on 90gsm preprint - boxed in 1000. Label size 115mm x 150mm 1000 @ ?215.15/1000 + VAT 5000 @ ?73.69/1000 + VAT 20000 @ ?48.01/1000 + VAT All prices are subject to sight of final copy. Prices are valid for 30 days only. Delivery approximately 3 weeks from receipt of order. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
radders Posted January 20, 2003 Share Posted January 20, 2003 I'm interested but at 25p per label I think I'd just prefer to copy it out by hand! I wouldn't need the form to be pre-printed, just to have a sticky label. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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