[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Printing spine labels

[John Rucker]

Hi Barbara,

Here, we wanted to keep using our laser printers that worked fine in our old ILS. To that end, I wrote a little web application and a workflow to get spine labels on standard Avery-type label stock.

The workflow involves printing to PDF from Evergreen, instead of to a real printer. So you'll need something like the free PDFCreator for that. Then you upload the PDF to the web app, for which you'll need a Linux computer with some extra stuff installed. You can select where on the label sheet you want the output to start. This then generates another PDF that matches the Avery stock we use.

Someone with some Linux experience and really basic programming knowledge could edit the web app to meet your own needs for fonts, formatting, etc.

You can try it out here:
http://www.branchdistrictlibrary.org/professional/labels/

And click the "show instructions" link to read all the steps.

Anyway, if you find that helpful, cool!

Yours,

John

John Rucker
Asst. Director/Systems Administrator
Branch District Library
10 E. Chicago St.
Coldwater MI 49036

automation at BranchDistrictLibrary.org
http://www.BranchDistrictLibrary.org
517-278-2341 ext. 15
FAX 517-279-7134







On May 24, 2012, at 11:56 AM, Barbara Snider wrote:

> We want to entirely change our spine label printing process.  I am interested in any efficient methods, including printing programs or software and printers that are compatible with Evergreen.  I would be grateful for any comments, which can come directly to me at sniderb at santacruzpl.org.  Much thanks for your time.  Barbara
> 
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> Barbara Snider
> Division Manager, Collection Services
> Santa Cruz Public Library System
> 117 Union St.
> Santa Cruz, CA 95060
> 831-427-7700 extension 7660
> sniderb at santacruzpl.org