RE: label printing

["Matt Polcyn" <MattP at ohionet dot org>]

One of the challenges we found with Sue's suggestion (to output from
Millennium and import into the OCLC Label Program) is that the Label
Program requires the first character of each line to be blank.  However,
it doesn't appear to be possible to accomplish that with labels
generated within Millennium.  So we ended up using a simple perl script
to add the required blank space.

Also, one of our libraries needed one SP1 and one SLB (one single-spaced
pocket label and one spine label) for each item.  Their format and
sheets wouldn't work with Millennium, so we had to output to the label
program.  However, because of the label programs requirements for the
SLB format, we hacked together a perl script to:

- add the blank space to the beginning of each line
- to remove a space from in between the pocket and spine labels (since
the pocket data has to start in position 12 of each line, but adding the
space to the beginning shifted the pocket to position 13) 
- create the hanging indent for multiple-line authors or titles 

So getting your labels to work with OCLC's Label Program will work ...
but might take some massaging.

Matt 

-----Original Message-----
From: innopac-bounces at innopacusers dot org
[mailto:innopac-bounces at innopacusers dot org] On Behalf Of Sue Boggs
Sent: Wednesday, May 25, 2005 6:54 PM
To: IUG INNOPAC List
Subject: Re: label printing

At 05:14 PM 5/25/2005 -0400, you wrote:
>Can anyone tell me how others have accommodate spine labels to
>Innovative restrictions?  We would like to print on 8.5 x11 sheet of 40
>labels (9/10 x 2") and we've been told that they only support one
>format of "sheet" labels.  I think it's
>Gaylor SL4 (not sure of the official name), but it's 8 spine/pocket
>combination in two columns and that there is no format for spine labels
>only on laser sheets!

Yes, that is a frustration and it has come up often on the enhancement 
requests. I've been told since there are work-arounds it is a low
priority 
for Innovative. I had to leave early to catch a plane so I missed a lot
of 
the 2006 update session at IUG but the presenter did mention changes to 
label printing. Maybe someone who caught the whole thing can elaborate
but 
I still don't think it will do what we want  it to do as far as
different 
formats. She mentioned being able to print labels for large print books
in 
large font but I am guessing it will still be in the SL6 format.

Currently Innovative only prints to the SL6 format. You want the SP1.
What 
we do is choose to print continuous labels, choose the printer to be a
file 
and then move that file out of Millennium with Data Exchange. We then
open 
it in the OCLC label program and print in SL4 format. SP1 is an option
in 
the OCLC program so you might investigate that.

Sue


Sue Boggs
Cataloging & Library Technician
Technical Services

Library
University of Puget Sound
1500 N. Warner St. #1021
Tacoma, WA 98416-1021

(253) 879-2667
boggs at ups dot edu


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