Labels & Addresses
Ian loves his labels, and he’s found a fun new way of making them
BeLight Software’s creative apps strike a very good balance between ease of use and depth of features. They’re not pro-level tools (its desktop publishing app, Swift Publisher, won’t tempt our art editor to abandon Adobe InDesign, for example), but neither are they Mickey Mouse packages that are incredibly easy to use, but let you do little more than tweak pre-existing templates. Getting the most out of them takes a little practice, but it’s time well spent.
That’s certainly true for Labels & Addresses, BeLight’s labelling application. It’s incredibly versatile, and you can use it to lay out and print labels according to industry-standard templates. Buy a box of A4 label sheets and you’ll almost certainly be able to create designs to fit them exactly, and print them from your regular printer. The app also supports popular dedicated label printer models.
You can add international barcodes for address labels (useful for territories where they’re used to aid sorting). For your creative designs, you can import pictures from iPhoto or your hard drive, and a thousand pictures and clip-art images are supplied (the extras pack includes over 40,000). You can import contacts from Address Book directly to your labels too – ideal for your Christmas card list!
Labels & Addresses costs £35 on the Mac App Store, or $50 (around £30) for a single user licence from BeLight’s website. Family packs, add-ons and extras are also available. Take a look at belightsoft. com/products/labelsaddresses/overview.php.