It is common in manufacturing environments to have specialised printers for different types of labels (e.g., inkjet, zebra, cloth labels, metallic labels, pallet labels).
It is therefore important that controlled labels are only ever printed on label printers that are set up for the design or purpose of the label. It may also be important that only printers in a specific area or location are used for a label design version.
Label printers are also controlled in MES to be limited to specific tasks e.g. test (for test jobs only) or production.
New Label Printer
You will only need to set up a printer before you can assign label designs to it. Setting up a printer is generally not required often.
- Navigate to the Label Printing Dashboard and click the Label Printers button then click the New button.
- Complete the New Label Printer input screen.
New Label Printer
The following properties can be defined for New Label Printer:
Blue fields in the form are required and are flagged with an asterisk (*) in this document.
- Alias*: Provide a descriptive alias as this will be the user-friendly name in the Eyelit application.
- Windows Printer Name*: The Windows name of the printer on the server where the label print service is installed.
- Enable*: Is the printer enabled or disabled. When disabled, it will not be available on the network. Options: Yes (default) / No.
- Printer Type*: This indicates if a printer is used in production or test. This determines where printers can be used. Final goods, production labels can only be printed to production printers. These printers are visible when printing from a production workflow. Other printer types are inventory (goods receipt) and test printing.
Label Printer Devices
You can assign a printer to one or more devices.
- Navigate to the Label Printers page.
- Select a printer that was configured.
- Click Devices button to display the Label Printer Devices pop-up.
- Here you can assign and unassign printers to devices.
Link a Label Design to a Printer
- Navigate to Label Printers, and click the Label Designs button.
- Select printer and click the Label Designs button.
- Select the label designs and click the Assign button to assign them to the printer.
Label Print Queue
The label print queue displays all of the print jobs being generated, sent to the server, printed and confirmed back.
Note that it is also possible to view details for each label created, manually create [Admin] Print jobs (e.g. if troubleshooting an issue, creating non-product specific labels), reprint labels or scrap labels from here.
