Datamax v1.1x user manual Labels, Project

Chapter 1 : Primer

Select Label:004 ▼▲

Pallet Label

2

In this case, the third screen will look like the screen below. Notice that the label name, Pallet Label, from screen (2) has automatically been displayed on the first line of screen (3).

Pallet	Label	3
Qty to	Print:1..	▼▲

The user presses the Fwd ↑ and Rev ↓ buttons on the printer’s front panel to increment or decrement the quantity of the label to be printed. The user then presses the Ent ↵ button on the printer’s front panel to initiate the printing. The label is printed in the quantity specified. The project then loops back to display screen (2) again. The user can select the same label for printing again, or may select a different label to print.

This is useful in pallet building, for example. You may want to print many item labels. Then, when all the items on the pallet have been labeled, you can print a label for the entire pallet. In this case, the user selects the item label many times and then finally selects the pallet label once. The user then returns to printing item labels for the next pallet build.

A fourth standard screen 4 , a Print Error screen, exists. It is not part of the 123 Print application logic but rather is displayed by the Datamax

printer whenever a print error occurs after 3 above has been initiated. The default print error screen is as shown here

		Print	Error		4
		Exit		Retry
	This message will be displayed, for example, if the label roll is out of
	labels.
	The User Interface function allows you to customize this error message.
Labels	If you are only concerned with static labels, you only need to use the
	Labels function to identify the static labels you want to include in your
	project.

If, however, you want to create dynamic labels, you will want to take advantage of the full capabilities provided in the Labels function.

The flow described above under User Interface is not sufficient to include variable data on the label. Consider an item label, for example. You want to print an item label with an item barcode, an item description, and an item weight. However, you do not know in advance which item, the item description, or the item weight (fruit, meat, etc.) for the label to be printed. You want to collect this information and merge it with your label format at the moment you print the label.

123 Print allows you to design this capability into your project. It allows you to create a series of screens for user interaction, and implement a series of processes for data manipulation or peripheral communications. Since each label may involve a different set of variable data, these screens and processes are associated with the given label in what is called a label program.

Using the Labels function, you can design a series of screens and processes to collect data that you then merge as variables into the label to be printed.

The following diagram depicts the relationship between User Interface created screens and flow, and Labels created screens and flow.

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