
2. Designing a Format
Determining Format Contents
Decide what you want to print on the supply. Any information should be in the form of text, bar codes, lines, boxes, or graphics.
Each piece of information is either a field or an overlay. Here are the field types and how each type might be used.
Fields
There are three types of fields: text,
Text Fields
Text fields contain alphabetical, symbol, or numerical characters. Here are some uses.
∙Company name or department number
∙Serial number
∙Shipping address
∙Price.
You can define up to 14 fields in a format. The total can be any combination of text,
Designing a Format
Use
Bar Code Fields
Select from 7 bar codes:
∙Item or serial number
∙Merge information from multiple text fields.