High Volume Label Printing

Steven Delombaerde

Practical problem with label printing in CoreSuite LD:

I have created a label layout and a query that correctly picks up the number of labels to print from for example, a production order document. This works fine for small quantities of labels. However, when I want to print 3000 labels, CoreSuite renders a print document of 3000 individual labels. When you have graphics on your layout, the rendering process takes forever, and the printing occurs in shots of 1 by 1.

The workaround I have implemented is to let the user select the number of labels on the printer selection dialog screen, after previewing 1 label on the screen. This shoots 3000 labels out in a matter of seconds. In other words I use the print driver to determine the number of copies. Problem I have with this scenario, is that I cannot capture the number of labels to print automatically, AND that the printer is set to the default windows printer, even though something else is specified on the layout definition.

Question 1: Is there any other way around this?
Question 2: In my workaround, can I at least default to the layout printer?

Thanks
Steven

Philipp Knecht

Hi Steven

There is another possibility to define the nr of copies for labels.
If you use the copy column it gets rendered each time which isn't necessary if the label stays the same.

Have a look at the preinstalle Label Query sample:

SELECT T0.*,T0.Quantity AS [@@RepeatRow], T1.* FROM @@RDR1 T0 INNER JOIN O@@RDR T1 ON T0.DocEntry = T1.DocEntry WHERE T0.DocEntry = [%DocEntry]

with the AS [@@RepeatRow] part you can define the copies.

hth