Which labels do you use for printing Royal Mail online postage?

[BlowDryRat]

Just that really! I'm currently printing off labels onto A4 paper and sellotaping them onto the envelope but I'm sending quite a bit of post for work purposes and it doesn't look terribly professional.

Do you do it on a business account? If so you can order their labels (on a roll, free) and use a thermal printer, otherwise just print on 4 per sheet cheapies from eg Viking

I have a Zebra thermal printer.

It's just from the public website, not a business one. The Zebra printer looks very nifty but is £££ and I'm not sending post in a sufficient quantity to justify it.

Is there an easy way to resize the label so it will print onto a 4-label page?

I would advise you to sign up to the business click and drop service as you get many extras. You can buy cheap labels from Amazon - 4 to a sheet - and configure the labels to print on them. I dont buy the expensive Avery labels - the multifunction 5 star ones have a variation with 4 labels to a sheet of A4.

You can print all 4 at once or a lesser number. You can also custom position them if you have odd sheets left over.

You may find it a bit of a learning curve instead but once you get into it you will save a lot of time cutting out and securing labels and it does look a lot more professional.

That does sound good. Thanks!

Most labels have an Avery (expensive label brand) - many will quote it on the pack.
If not, look for the Avery label code for the format of labels you want to use, be that 4 per sheet, 8 per sheet, etc.
There will be a corresponding Avery template. I've not done it in ages in Word, but you used to be able to pick the Avery template as a paper type.

Another way I've achieved this is just measuring the margins etc carefully, and creating my own template using a table in word.

I do a couple of test runs on plain paper, usually with the table lines printed, to use as a stencil and measure up against the labels to check it looks OK.
Set sensibly large margins in the table cells. Keep the template blank, an just "save as" to create new versions.
If you find yourself needing 3 labels and you have 4 per sheet, print one label in small font Sender: BlowDryRat Adress1, address2, etc, repeated several times. You can cut that label up and stick on outgoing parcels.