Is it possible to automatically print empty label before every new job
When printing multiple jobs (product labels) i would like to have one empty page between every new job. For example i need to print 20 labels and later 25 different labels, it would automatically leave one blank page where 20 pages end and 25 start off. Is it possible? Even better would be to have a template that gets printed once every time new labels get printed, but i assume it's a lot more difficult to achieve.
Reason for needing this is that we use bartender to print labels on our packaging (Autobag) machines and because labels get printed like ~10 bags ahead of operator station, it's sometimes difficult to notice where new labels start and mistakes can happen.
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Have you tried adding a 2nd template, say with an "End of Job" or similar text field on it and then from the Page Setup make that an End of Job template.
The second image below is a Preview of the last 6 labels from a batch of ten serialised labels plus one "end of job" label to show it working
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This seems to be exactly what i need! Unfortunately it seems that when i enable second template the entire job will be sent to printer one label at a time. This is sadly unacceptable since i need to print thousands of copies and printer cannot handle that many queued jobs. Not to mention the time it takes to send them all to printer.
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Okay, the other way would be to send a Form Feed command down after the labels have been sent.
I could be wrong but it looks like the Autobag form feed command is
<STX> F
and so you would need to add that here:
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This command works perfectly, thank you!
Is it possible to set this as global setting? Currently it appears to be saved with only current label and i would need to edit every label we have to have this feature on all of them. I tried setting it in windows printer settings but apparently bartender does not use these settings.
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You could try setting this in the printer driver in Control Panel rather than in the label format and see how that works for the other labels.
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Yes i tried that. Did not work sadly.
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I find that using the and of group or end of job templates are the best because I can create a template that displays summary information such as job and SKU # that is easy to identify.
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He had tried that as suggested earlier but that effected the print speed presumably due to the serialisation and font selection and so I had suggested a simple alternative
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This user command feature works wonderfully. Is there a way to dynamically control this from a textbox or database field?
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No I do not believe so.
You could do this with the extra template though, by setting up conditional printing for this template based on the value/entry in another (named) field
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