Print labels for a batch

Printing takes a template and a record, fills one with the other, and hands you a PDF. The browser’s own viewer prints it; paper and scale are chosen there, as with any document.

Where it is

Wherever the record is. A completed batch’s Label data page has the Print labels button, and so do a stock lot’s row, an ingredient’s page and a recipe’s. The template gallery and the editor print too, and let you pick the record from the dialog. Whichever door you use, the same dialog opens.

Choose the data and copies

The dialog names what it will print from. Opened from a batch, that batch is fixed; opened from a recipe, you also pick which sale format, because each format carries its own barcode and fill. Label language decides how dates and block headings print, whatever language your screen is in: a French jar prints French from an English session.

Copies default to what the batch packaged. The preview on the right is the actual label, drawn by the renderer that will produce the PDF, and the dialog restates the editor’s warnings so a missing lot code is read here rather than on the sticker.

Roll or sheet

Roll printer puts one label per page at exact size, which is what a label printer feeds.

Sheet of labels lays copies onto the stock you buy. The common die-cut sheets are built in, and you can measure your own under Manage organization → Settings → Labels. Click the first free cell on the miniature sheet and a part-used sheet carries on where it stopped. Two aids for real printers: outlines draw a faint cut line for plain paper tests, and alignment nudges the whole grid by a millimeter or two when your printer feeds paper slightly off. The alignment figure is remembered per sheet, on this browser, because it belongs to the machine in front of you.

Numbered labels

A template that carries the label counter prints a series: Start numbering at decides where it begins, and the dialog states the exact range before you print, “Labels number 41 to 60.” A print service cannot do this; that is what the export page is about.

The print log

Every print and export lands in the log, on the gallery’s Print log page: when, which design, which record, how many, by whom. A batch page shows its own line, “Labels printed: 72 (3 jobs)”. The log is a record, so nothing in it can be deleted; the PDF itself stays downloadable for a couple of days and can always be regenerated by printing again.