Printing

The Printing page displays the list of printing events. Each event includes information about the print job application (module), workstation, user, printer, and printing status.

To display detailed information about the selected printing event, label preview, and possible error, click the row with the selected print job. Print History Details window opens.

Use Filters and Columns buttons to narrow down the search for your print jobs and customize displaying of the Printing page. Filters help you when you are searching for a print job you want to reprint.

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	In Print History Details window you can reprint your labels. When you press Reprint button, a window with additional options opens. You can define which print jobs you want to print, select some other printer to print your print jobs, and add your comments.

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For more details about print job statuses, read the section Job Statuses.

Status. in the Label section specifies the last known status of the print job as reported from the Loftware printer driver. To see these statuses, enable the option Detailed printing control. To enable this option, open Designer and go to File > Options > Control Center tab.

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	Print History Details > Print Job section also displays Metadata if available. You can define Metadata in a Loftware form or in Automation at advanced print options in Print Label action.

You can download the Printing log as an Excel sheet if you click the Download button at the bottom of the page.

Size of printing history log

Each print job creates a new printing history log in your Control Center database. Print history logs contain Print job details (status, label name, print quantity, print time,...) and Label details (variable name, variable type, and variable value) for each printed label.

When you print frequently, your Control Center database size might grow rapidly. Labels with more variables and longer variable values create more extensive logs. Typically, each printed label creates a 1KB-2KB log. Graphics don't affect the sizes of logs and Print job details create an insignificant amount of data.

To archive your printing history logs and free your database space, see the Archiving topic.