Jay J. NelsonContributor, Macworld

Jay Nelson is a printing, design, and publishing industry veteran. As editor and publisher of Design Tools Monthly for 20+ years, he has chronicled publishing's evolution from manual paste-up to iPads. He loves fonts and font technology, and his website is Design-Tools.com.

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You can use word processing tools to create address and package labels, but some of the dedicated apps for such tasks let you put some creative punch into the job.

Stellar programs for printing labels

Hands on with Adobe InDesign CS5.5

FontExplorer X Pro 3.0

FontGenius 2.0

SOHO Labels 5.0.3