[Evergreen-catalogers] Printing spine labels in 2.12

[Chrisy Schroth]

We used to use Dymo label printers when we were on Horizon, but we switched to Zebra printers, and have had them the whole time we have been on Evergreen. I seem to remember that the Dymo worked similarly to the Zebras that we have now, so maybe this will help.

Usually when our labels come out blank we have to go into the Windows printer settings  > printing preferences and check the darkness and the speed. With the Zebras we have to set it for the slowest print speed, and the highest darkness setting, or folks get blank labels. The fun thing about that is Systems does everything the same when they install them on all our computers, but for whatever reason, on some of our installations, the highest darkness setting is 15, but on some it is 30. If the max is 30 on a computer, but the setting is 15, the labels are blank.

The other problem that sometimes makes our labels blank is that Evergreen thinks the page size is different from the label, and it's printing, but not in the right spot. If I remember correctly, it was trying to print on normal letter paper. To fix both these problems, our Systems Admin creates a label stock in the Windows printing preferences while he is there. It's the only way we got it to remember the proper page size and other settings. This is all in addition to the Evergreen printer settings that Jennifer just sent.

I hope it helps. Let me know if you have any questions.

Thanks and have a great day!
Chrisy

Chrisy Schroth
Assistant Cataloger/Serials Coordinator
Kenton County Public Library
3095 Hulbert Avenue
Erlanger, KY 41018
859-578-7924 work
chrisy.schroth at kentonlibrary.org

From: Evergreen-catalogers <evergreen-catalogers-bounces at list.evergreen-ils.org> On Behalf Of Meghan Blackburn
Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2018 7:54 AM
To: evergreen-catalogers at list.evergreen-ils.org
Subject: [Evergreen-catalogers] Printing spine labels in 2.12

While on the topic of spine labels...

NC Cardinal is still using 2.12.  I've searched around and found a couple of guides and followed the instructions, but when I try to print a label, it comes out blank.  Any idea what I'm doing wrong?  For reference, I'm using a Dymo LabelWriter 450 Twin Turbo.

Thanks!

Meghan Blackburn
Technical Services Librarian
Cleveland County Memorial Library
704-487-9069 ext. 224
mblackburn at ccml.org<mailto:mblackburn at ccml.org>

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