hi Ton,
what problem do you face with the repeater table? Do the lines not center correctly on the label?
maybe this helps:
Example - Create Mailing Labels
You are a report author at The Great Outdoors Company, which sells sporting equipment. You are requested to create mailing labels for all of the company’s retailers.
Steps
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Open Report Studio with the GO Data Warehouse (query) package.
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In the Welcome dialog box, click Create a new report or template.
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In the New dialog box, click Repeater Table and click OK.
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Click the repeater, click the select ancestor button in the Properties pane title bar, and click Repeater Table.
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In the Properties pane, set the following properties:
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Set the Across property to 2.
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Set the Down property to 5.
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Double-click the Table Properties property, select the Fixed size check box, and click OK.
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In the Insertable Objects pane, on the Toolbox tab, drag the Table object to the repeater.
The Insert Table dialog box appears.
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In the Number of columns box, type 1 and click OK.
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Click the table, ensure that you see Table Cell in the Properties pane title bar, and modify the following properties:
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Double-click Background Image, click Browse, click logo.jpg, and click OK.
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In the Background Image dialog box, under Position, click the align top right button.
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Under Tiling, click Do not tile and click OK.
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Double-click Size & Overflow, and in the Height box, type 175, and click OK.
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Click the table, click the select ancestor button in the Properties pane title bar, and click Table.
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In the Properties pane, specify properties for the table:
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Double-click Border.
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In the Style box, click Solid line.
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In the Width box, click 1 pt.
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In the Color box, click Black.
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Under Preview, click the apply all borders button and click OK.
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Double-click Font, and under the Size box, click 8pt, and click OK.
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In the Insertable Objects pane, on the Toolbox tab, drag the Block object to the repeater 8 times to create 8 blocks.
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Drag the Text Item object to the first block:
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In the Text dialog box, type To: and click OK.
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Select the text item.
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Double-click the Font property, set the weight to Bold, and click OK.
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Click the first block, and, in the Properties pane, specify properties for the first block:
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Double-click the Padding property, type 35 in the box on the right, click mm as the unit, and click OK.
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Set the Horizontal Alignment property to Center.
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In the Insertable Objects pane, on the Source tab , expand Sales and Marketing (query), Sales (query), and Retailer site and drag seven data items to the remaining seven blocks.
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Ctrl+click the seven blocks to select them, and in the Properties pane, specify properties for the seven blocks:
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Double-click the Padding property, type 25 in the box on the left, click mm as the unit, and click OK.
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Set the Horizontal Alignment property to Left.
When you run the report, each page contains 10 mailing labels in two columns.