AveryReviews 109

I'm sorry Avery but you had a winning combination when you had Design Pro 5.5 software and your labels. Both of these worked like a charm.

You discontinued Design Pro 5.5 and came up with Design and Print and more issues came about. Why would you not hire the same programmers that worked on this software back in 1999-2010 and come up with an improved version?

Even your Design and Print offline (standalone version) is being retired so only the Online version is available. I will not use Online only products for creating and printing Labels.

Bring back Design Pro 5.5 redesigned using the original tools from Leadtools, Envel and XLS. This older software is vastly superior to what you offer now. It is shame.

Users will need to keep older hardware to print labels? Crazy.

Please fix your ways Avery!

For some reason Avery is changing everything so you have to do your labels online using their "Avery design & print". The problem is it's a step back rather than a step forward. There are more steps, not as much customization, upload to mail merge, download to print, etc. I don't understand and it's so utterly frustrating. They've retired the google docs mail merge add-on. But created this add-on for Excel. However, again you have to upload the excel data into Avery design & print, then after the merge download to print from your printer. It is totally a time waster and again you don't have near the flexibility or customization you did.

They've updated their product to something worse and I've wasted an incredible amount of time 1) trying to make the type of labels I used to make using the google doc add-on; 2) Trying to figure out how to make the merge process faster only to discover you can't because you've got to upload to create then download to print (unless you are making a huge number of labels and order from Avery and they will print); and 3) trying to figure out how to add the label template I want to use to Word only to find out they've retired the Avery Wizard for Word!

This is one of the worst roll-outs of a new design process I've ever experienced.

Spent $300 on file supplies and Avery labels. Our first dislike was sharing our business contact information with Avery. Then we tried to type simple file labels... bad... many tries. Then printing did not align. Then it was no better with MS Word. When we realized that we were wasting out time we tried to online chat with Avery. They were too busy to answer. We scrapped all the Avery products and used a competitor. They need to replace all of their label instructions.

I had a bunch of things I wanted to print for a baby shower and thought that the Avery products were going to be a perfect fit. However, after reading the reviews I was hesitant to invest in all the different products and then have them turn out awful. I decided on trying just one, the index cards to print out a book request and to my delight they came out beautifully. I then went all in purchasing the business cards, round labels, scallop tags and tabs with strings. Every single thing printed perfectly and was exactly what I was looking for! I do believe that my success was due to a printer that was able to take card stock easily and I did use Google Chrome. I am really so glad I gave it a go. I saved a lot of money being able to customize my shower favors myself.

I CAN'T imagine what happened the first time but since I have found everything imaginable but success and support. Just close your eyes and guess and your labels will do better than their help--closed, stupid, not available. 10 years ago I had this pro blem. Tried first to do ethics committee labels. You can imagine how immature they were. Doesn't quite help the situation. These people should be out of business when you can guess and get it better than notMAGOR LOSING COMPANY DO NOT BUY--NO SERVICE