Re: Printing spine labels on a laser printer

[Bob Rasmussen <ras@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 8 Jan 2003, Glenda Audrain wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> I have been reading in the Archives about how people are printing using the
> Anzio PrintWizard and the JetDirect printer option to print sheets of spines
> labels.  I am having trouble configuring those two items to get the printing
> to work.
>
> Can anyone share the configuration information to print 8 1/2 by 11 sheets
> of 7/8 x 1 1/4 labels? The labels on my sheets are 8 across and eight down.

It sounds like you're using the freestanding Print Wizard program (not
Anzio), with Workstation JetDirect. Here are some pointers:

1. Make sure Print Wizard (PW) is processing the data, by using the
"/debug" option (or "/vDebug in older versions) in the command line that
launches it. Then, if it gets data, it will put some debugging info in the
command window that it runs in.

2. The way you change the output layout is to use a print-init file. This
is also specified by using a command line parameter, such as
   /init=c:\printwiz26\mylabels.init

3. There is a sample init file included, under the "samples" directory, as
"labels.init". I suggest you copy it to a file as above, so you don't
change the original file.

4. Edit the file (mylabels.init) with an editor such as notepad, to adjust
label spacing.
   a) For TOPMARGIN and LEFTMARGIN, measure from the edges of the
page to where you want the top left corner of the first character to be.
   b) For COLUMNOFFSET, use the distance from left-edge of one label to
left-edge of the next label to the right.
   c) To get the vertical spacing right, you have to match the number of
lines (of text plus spacing) coming from III for each label. For a
one-inch vertical increment (top to top), I would expect 6 lines,
conforming to the standard of 6 lines per inch (or 12 points per line). If
this is not right, adjust the LINESPACING in the init file.

5. You can use the /PREVIEW option of Print Wizard to see what your output
will look like. You can also experiment with changing some of the settings
there. Once you have determined what works, enter those values into the
init file.

Hope this helps.

Regards,
....Bob Rasmussen,   President,   Rasmussen Software, Inc.

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