Sending label quantity immediately
We are integrating a CAB printer into an automated system. We're using the BarTender print driver. When we send a quantity of, lets say, 200, the print driver appears to send a quantity of 1, 200 times. We did a data dump and confirmed this is what's occurring. We need it to send all 200 immediately to the printer. The reason being that we may need to cancel the print job, at the printer in the middle of a run. However, when the cancel command is sent, it will only cancel the label that is in the printers buffer at that moment in time. After the cancel, the driver continues to send the labels until the full quantity is used. I don't know if this is only an issue with the CAB print driver or if it is an inherent part of BarTender. Does anyone know if there is a method for sending the entire quantity to the printer instead of one label at a time?
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In most instances BarTender will use the printer's onboard capabilities and send down the one file and print X copies command to the unit but other factors can prevent this.
One of these can be the settings on the File>Print>Performance screen which could disable this functionality. Also the data being sent and fonts being used can also cause an issue. With variable fields or sequential numbers then using CAB fonts for these would probably help and for barcodes you may want to check the Print Method settings to allow the printer to control most of these.
I have seen it previously where everything looks correct but this still happens and after further digging/testing it turned out on particular text string was causing an issue. With that removed then the file was sent correctly but when it was on the label it didnt. To get round this we had to delete the field and add it back on in full again.
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