Appointments can be very important to remember and sometimes you need to send your customers a reminder card. Because of the constant change of customers needing to reschedule their appointments and new customers coming into your business, outsourcing your appointment reminder cards may not be the best idea.

It’s easy and affordable to print your own appointment reminder cards. This post will walk you through the process of creating and printing your own reminder cards. Read More…

The equipment choices made by the managers or the owners of a business can have a large impact on the overall operating costs of and the environmental consequences of an office. Utilizing the most efficient light bulbs, appliances and vehicles will have a dramatic on monthly costs and will in the long term pay for themselves. Read More…

Label sheets are sheets with one or multiple labels, used for order fulfillment, shipping, mailing, and warehouse organization.

The following conditions are recommended for proper use and storage:

• 72 degrees F (+/- 5 degrees)
• 50% relative humidity (+/- 5%)
• Product should remain in original packaging until ready for use.

***We do not recommend duplex printing when using a laser printer.***

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My shipping label sheets aren’t feeding properly

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Are you storing your label sheets properly?

I don’t understand how to use the membership card template.  Help!

Blank printable membership cards can be printed by using one’s own PC and printer. The user can create his/her own membership card content and layout using existing software such as Microsoft® WORD or Publisher ®, and print immediately using his/her own printer. No additional hardware or software is required.

Blank templates allow users to create custom membership cards, often utilizing a mail merge letter.

Step 1: Find a membership card template:

Download membership cards 1 per page

Download membership cards 2 per page

Step 2:  Format membership card:

• Click into the letter portion of the sheet.
• Format your document, like you would a letter, including company logo, return address, recipient/member address, and include detailed benefits of membership.
• Click into the image of the membership card.  Right click and choose Add Text.
• Use the Mail Merge Wizard, if desired, to have the membership cards filled with data from mail merge.
• Personalize card as desired with graphics and / or text.  To remove printed border around membership card, select card, right click, choose Format AutoShape, and Change Line Color to No Color.
• Go to File, then Print Preview to view before printing.

Step 3: Print.

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Have any tips to share on how you’ve printed your own membership cards?

Q&A: How do I get my guests? addresses to print onto mailing labels?

How to create address labels / mailing labels using Microsoft ® Word:

1.    Download free mailing labels template.
2.    Type in the name, address, city, state, and zip code.
3.    Tab twice to get to next label.
4.    Repeat, as needed.
5.    Test print on plain paper.  If everything is correct.  Print the document.

See other Microsoft® Word tips for printing your own labels.

Microsoft® and Excel® are registered trademarks of the Microsoft Corporation.

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What are your tips to quickly create address labels?

When reading this article on the LA Times’ blog, the question came up of whether shipping label sheets can be recycled.  The answer…

We have found that you should ask your municipality if something is recyclable. In our area, we were told that shipping label sheets (and an empty sheet after you have peeled all of the labels off), are recyclable. So, we would suggest you check with your locality about any item in question.

Check out more ways to recycle paper

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What do you recycle?

Q:  Do you have physical inventory tags?

A:  We offer 4 1/4″ x 5 1/2″ forms (4 per sheet) in several grades of white and several colors.  One of our customers shared his great experience using them:

“The printing was flawless.  I thought I might have an issue due to the thickness of the stock, but it was perfect.  My only other concern was a bar code I printed on the tag and whether it could be read.  Once again, there were no issues.

The forms were used to create inventory tags for a physical inventory.  Each sheet was used to create two (2) two-part tags.  The tags were separated horizontally to be sorted.  A tag number in the form of a bar code was scanned and then the inventory was scanned for that tag.  After each card was filled in on both sides of the perforation, the perforation allowed us to easily separate the tags.  One remained with the inventory, while the other was sent to tag control for entry. This was a great improvement in our previous process of stapling tags together and then pulling them apart.

I cannot say enough about the service I received in ordering the product and having it delivered on time.  Any delay would have cause a major inconvenience and expense to my organization.”

-A manufacturer

See our other inventory tags

Effective Jan. 3, 2011

• FedEx Express package and freight rates will increase an average of 5.9% for U.S. and U.S. export services. The rate increase will be partially offset by adjusting the fuel price at which the fuel surcharge begins, reducing the fuel surcharge by 2 percentage points.
• FedEx Express U.S. import rates will change.
• FedEx Express U.S. rates to Puerto Rico will change.
• FedEx International Premium® rates will change.
• Preview 2011 FedEx Express rates.
• There will be changes to FedEx International Priority® and FedEx International Economy® minimum rates.

Read our suggestions for reducing your shipping costs, even when carriers increase rates.

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Read our article about communicating fast and quickly using postcards.

Tweeting the Old Fashioned Way

Burris Computer Forms will be closed on Monday, July 5, 2010, in observance of Independence Day.  Enjoy some fun facts about Independence Day.  We will reopen on Tuesday, July 6, 2010 at 9 am EST.