How to print product barcode labels
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Printing labels
There are five product label sizes available for printing:
- 50 x 25 mm
- 54 x 25 mm
- 100 x 50 mm
- 175 x 102 mm
- 50.8 x 12.7 mm
In order for a successful print, please ensure the printer setting is correctly configured on your computer:
for the example below, we have used the SATO WS4 Direct Thermal label printer
- The correct printer driver is installed; please visit your printer manufacturing website to download the driver or contact your IT person
- There is one crucial setting that is required to set.
This is the paper size setting.
To configure this, on Windows operating system, go to
Control Panel > Devices and Printers > Right click on the SATO WS4 printer (or your label printer) and choose “Printer references”
See below screenshot (note your printer setting might look different to our screenshot):
Tip: After printing the labels, the orientation might be incorrect, if this happens, try printing the labels in Landscape or Portrait mode.
To print labels, there are three ways:
Firstly, via the products page:
- Go to Products menu, then "Sku variations"
- Find, search, then select/tick the products to print
- In the Actions dropdown box, choose the label size by clicking on the respective "Print labels (5cm x 2.5cm)" or another size
- The system will render the labels into a PDF file
- Print the PDF file onto your label printer (ensure the paper size is set correctly above).
Secondly, via the "Print labels" program:
- Go to "Products menu" > Inventory control
- Then "Print product labels"
Thirdly, via the purchase orders program:
- Open or edit an existing purchase order
- Click on the dropdown arrow next to the "Print" button
- Then choose "Print labels"
- This will pull across all the order's products onto the print label program automatically
- If need to, adjust the number or quantities to print
The barcode number used for the product will be either the default barcode or the first available barcode number loaded/entered for the product.
Otherwise, when there is no barcodes loaded for the product, the system will generate an unique random barcode number that starts with Q
To load or change barcode numbers, goto Products menu, then "Sku variations" to edit the product and input the barcode numbers there.