Printing Labels

[John Esak]

Jim, 
Your description of how typical labels work and how in this case to format a
laserjet page.... Terrific for the PCL challenged like me.
Excellent. Sent into my filepro-keep folder.
Thanks,
John

> 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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