Printing Envelopes in Word - Blank Page Printing After

Anonymous
2022-03-17T16:24:50+00:00

Using Word 2016

Printing form letters and envelopes is a large part of my job. For years I've been able to go to the mailings tab, select envelopes, have the address extracted from the letter and print the envelope no problem. As of this week, every time I do this a blank sheet of paper prints out after the envelope. To clarify, there is not a blank page being added to my document, just a blank page being printed out after the correctly printed envelope. One proposed solution I've seen is to disable two-sided printing which I have done and it did not solve the problem.

Thanks in adavnce!

Update:

While I have not been able to solve the root problem of Microsoft printing an extra page when printing envelopes, I was able to change printer settings to stop the issue. In printer preferences (for my printer, under the detailed settings tab) I turned disable blank page print on. I want to clarify that this is not the cause of the problem, as I have had this setting off for years and never had this issue, but it does fix the problem :)

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As of March 31, people in this thread are reporting that a recent update fixed the problem.

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  1. Charles Kenyon 171K Reputation points Volunteer Moderator
    2022-03-28T15:52:15+00:00

    Good morning:

    We are having the same problems. We will print an envelope from either the pop-up mailings-->Envelope tab OR just typing the address into a blank Word document and then selecting the mailings-->Envelope tab and the printer is still printing a blank page after the envelope.

    The type of printer we are using is HP LaserJet Pro M402dn.

    This started last week.

    Thank you.

    Please read this entire thread for workarounds.

    Please send feedback.

    That will make your hope for a fix more likely to become reality.

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  2. Anonymous
    2022-03-28T17:23:47+00:00

    I read the entire thread before I responded. We tried the workaround mentioned in the main Word settings (disable blank page). It did not work.

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  3. Anonymous
    2022-03-28T17:45:59+00:00

    I am also effected by this

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  4. Anonymous
    2022-03-28T20:42:19+00:00

    Hi Kevin,

    I too am having the "blank page printing after printing an envelope" problem. This started last week or the week before. I tried the "print only the data from a form" fix, but it did not work. It's not a big deal for me, because I just put the blank sheet back in the printer feed drawer, but it's still perplexing.

    Thank you.

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  5. Charles Kenyon 171K Reputation points Volunteer Moderator
    2022-03-28T23:13:30+00:00

    Hi Kevin,

    I too am having the "blank page printing after printing an envelope" problem. This started last week or the week before. I tried the "print only the data from a form" fix, but it did not work. It's not a big deal for me, because I just put the blank sheet back in the printer feed drawer, but it's still perplexing.

    Thank you.

    I am also effected by this

    This is a bug.

    Your feedback will keep pressure on Microsoft to fix it. They do not see anything you post here.

    Please read this entire thread for workarounds.

    What I do is use a custom envelope template.

    Simple Envelope Creator by Graham Mayor, MVP

    Please send feedback.

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