[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] sheet label printing?

[John C. Rucker]

Hi Jason,

That little utility (desperate hack, really) came out of us having no desire or money to buy new printers, since our previous ILS supported sheet labels. So a few hours of my time was better than buying several new printers. Presently I don't have any time at all for exploring how this could be integrated into Evergreen proper, though I hope that changes. But I also don't see us moving to single labels, either.

Oh, and the utility does allow you to choose an arbitrary starting point, not just a column. I never expected anybody else but us to use it...very happy that others found it useful, though.

-John



John Rucker
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On Jul 12, 2011, at 12:16 PM, Jason Etheridge wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I'm asking on behalf of an Evergreen user and would like to revisit
> the topic of sheet labels.  What are folks doing here, given that
> Evergreen currently doesn't have explicit support for such?
> 
> I know some folks are printing to PDF and using this program to print
> a given column of labels:
> http://www.branchdistrictlibrary.org/professional/labels/
> 
> I wonder if that program would be better if it could print an entire
> sheet from a given starting point rather than just a column?
> 
> Re-working the existing label interface to support sheeting could be a
> large undertaking depending on the exact specs; any itches to
> do/support that?
> 
> Or does someone have some report or A/T template that they feed into Word/etc?
> 
> Has anyone seen a smart print driver that understands labels and does
> the correct thing on form feeds?
> 
> Or maybe it's just better to move to feed labels?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> -- 
> Jason Etheridge
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