Simple label designer/manager

mol · Post by **mol** » Wed Dec 24, 2014 8:02 am

Finding few time, I've decided to build standalone label manager

It's only first preview, so be patient. I'm attaching source code, dbf file and .exe.
Nice testing!
You can download it from my ftp:
http://www.molsystemy.pl/hmg/label_manager.zip

Post by **bpd2000** » Wed Dec 24, 2014 8:34 am

Thank you, Marek

Pablo César · Post by **Pablo César** » Wed Dec 24, 2014 10:52 am

Very nice Marek !

Thank you for your sharing !

quartz565 · Post by **quartz565** » Wed Dec 24, 2014 1:04 pm

Marek i tried to print a label with the label manager but the label that comes out is blank.
I am attaching 3 screenshots with the printers' settings, the label's settings and the preview screen.

Also the printing is not direct, its a bit slow, it takes about 6-7 seconds before it starts printing after we give the command.And the label comes out blank.Weird thing is that the preview page shows the paper size much bigger than it was supposed to be.Especially the height, you can see it in the screenshot below.

Maybe i am doing something wrong?Thanks for your help.

Printer Settings

Label Settings

Preview Screen

Post by **srvet_claudio** » Wed Dec 24, 2014 1:08 pm

Is very good.

mol · Post by **mol** » Wed Dec 24, 2014 10:02 pm

I'll try to describe solition tomorrow,
Now, I have guests from Mexico (really!) - very nice two students - friends of my daughter.

Pablo César · Post by **Pablo César** » Wed Dec 24, 2014 10:15 pm

Nice Marek !

Have you a good time !

Post by **serge_girard** » Thu Dec 25, 2014 8:18 am

Thanks Marek !

Serge

mol · Post by **mol** » Thu Dec 25, 2014 12:43 pm

Marek i tried to print a label with the label manager but the label that comes out is blank.
I am attaching 3 screenshots with the printers' settings, the label's settings and the preview screen.

When printing on tlp 2844, you should set paper size (at the bottom of window) to size of labels that are loaded into printer.

quartz565 · Post by **quartz565** » Mon Dec 29, 2014 5:10 pm

Hello Marek,
The label prints out just fine!!

Your program is really good!! for creating and printing labels through the windows drivers.

There is just a small problem with the barcode printing when the barcode size is small ( for really small labels). The barcode lines are printed with dots and not very clear. This probably happens because the barcode is being printed as an image, so when we try to scan it with the barcode reader it cannot read it. When we print through the EPL language(for example: B265,75,0,3,2,4,101,b,V00) the barcode lines are being printed much more clearer.
Do you think that there might be a solution for this matter?

Also a question:
How can we change the fonts used when printing through your program?

Considering my previous example, using EPL to print helps with the compatibility for applications who want to print on DOS and on Windows also(printing in row mode).

The ideal scenario would be to have a mixture of the two ways of printing. Imagine printing the label through the windows drivers except the barcode part , for which we send directly the EPL command to the printer. Although it seems difficult, i am trying to find a solution and if anyone had an idea it would be great.

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