Printing Labels

[Jim Asman]

--------------- Original Message ---------------
At 07:47P Mon Dec 21 2009, Rodgers Hemer wrote:

> 
> On Dec 21, 2009, at 1:38 PM, Jim Asman wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, Dec 21, 2009, Rodgers Hemer wrote:
> > 
> >> FP 5.0.15 on Windows XP
> >> 
> >> I need to print address labels on a laser printer (HP2100).  The label
> >> setup and instructions in FP assume continuous feed paper.  How do I 
format
> >> output to use the laser printer with paper that has a 3/4" margin at top
> >> and bottom?.
> > 
> > Filepro knows nothing of margins. It delivers labels one after another to
> > your specification. It is up to you to insure the the number of lines
> > per label divides evenly into the lines per page of labels.
> > 
> > You supply a PCL code to the printer at the beginning of the printing
> > to specify margins and line spacing. Typical label sheets have 20  1 x 4
> > labels and 1/2 inch top margin with 60 print lines. This is normally
> > the default PCL printer page format, so as long as you define your
> > label format as 6 lines, at 6 lpi all should work out fine.
> > 
> > You say your label sheet has 3/4 inch margins top and bottom. I am
> > suspicious as that doesn't seem like a standard size label.
> > 
> > How many labels are there per sheet? And what are the dimensions
> > of each?
> > 
> 
> Jim:
> 
> The label sheets are made by Avery (5262) and have 7x2 labels, each 1 3/8" x 
> 4".  The filePro label setup works well on the first sheet but gets the top 
> margins wrong on the following sheets.  I got around it this time but need 
to 
> develop a better definition for the future.

As I suspected, the dimensions you gave were wrong, even the 1 3/8" you
last stated.

Common labels are typically sized in 1/6" increments to conform to our
6 lpi line spacing. The 5262 labels are 4" x 1 1/3"", giving 8 print
lines per label exactly.

That is 56 print lines per sheet. As our sheet without margins is 66 lines,
the format we wan. at 6 lpi is ...

Top margin       5 lines

Data            56 lines

Bot margin       5 lines


So define your label a being 8 lines, 2 across.

Filepro will just keep pumping out 8 line output with no consideration
to page breaks and the like. A simple PCL format command will take
care of the paging. Create a print code containing...

                $1b &l2a0o6d5e56F

That is a lowercase ell after the ampersand.

Put that on your print code table and quote its number as the
form init code on the options page of the output format.

That's should be all you need.


Jim 
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