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Printing and Previewing Labels
Preview and Print a Label
If you want to print a label, you can use the print preview to simulate a print output. The label pre-
view shows the label on the screen.
Simulate printing 10 labels on the screen to check label layout and printing procedure.
1. Click on icon in the Standard toolbar or select the command Print in the File
menu. The Print dialog box appears.
2. Enter 10 for Label Quantity and click on the Preview button. The software will close the
dialog box and simulate the production for 10 labels on the screen.
Note: You can select between the quantity of the labels and the quantity of the pages. The page can
have one or more labels and the labels are arranged on the page in columns and rows. If you have
eight labels on the page, the quantity of ten pages will print 80 labels.
When you are certain that the labels will be printed correctly and the preview shows the correct
values, you can proceed to real printing. To actually print the labels, do the following:
1. Click on icon in the Standard toolbar. The Print dialog box appears.
2. Enter 10 for the Label Quantity and click on the Print button. Your printer will now
print 10 labels.
Note: To manage fast and easy label printing, you can print labels from the application NicePrint or
the form generated with Power Forms. For more information refer to the chapter Other Appli-
cations.
Store and Recall Printing Mode
Store and Recall printing mode is the method of optimized label printing.
In this mode the software does not send the data for each label individually to the printer, a process
that used in standard printing mode. Instead for each print action label recall command is sent to the
printer. The obvious benefit is reduction of data sent to the printer. Typically a few bytes of data is
sent to the printer, compared to a few kilobytes with normal printing.
Store and recall printing method is a perfect solution for label printers, where high response and
high-throughput is required. Usually with embedded and integration systems. Once you have defined
the store and recall printing mode in the label designer, the same benefits are available from the
form designer and middleware integration module.
Instead the label printing process is broken into two processes:
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Store label
During this process the software creates a description of the label template formatted in
the printer command language of the selected printer. The software then sends the
created command file to the printer memory and stores it there.
Once the label has been stored in the printer, it remains there until you format the printer
memory, or switch off the printer. There are various memory locations in the printer and
some of them are non-volatile and you can lose the contents, when the printer switches