Label Dimensions

Label Dimensions tab specifies label dimensions and defines whether its size should adapt to the changing size of the objects or not.

Unit of measure defines the unit to be used while designing the label. There are four available units: cm, in, mm, and dot.

Label Dimensions group defines the label's Width and Height. Label dimension settings become active if manual label dimensions are enabled.

Note

When manually inserting the unit of measure, this also changes the currently defined Unit.

  • The Processing order option sets Horizontally - start at top left to portrait orientation or Vertically - start at top left to landscape orientation.

  • Horizontal gap and Vertical gap settings in Labels Across sections are set to 1mm.

  • The Optimize vinyl usage option in the Printer tab is enabled (if your printer supports it).

  • Vertical radius and Horizontal radius settings in the Radius section are set to 0.

  • The Maximum length setting appears under the Automatic labels across option. This setting defines your maximum paper length.

Margins group sets the distance between the edge of the printing surface and the edge of the label (left/right, top/bottom).

Tip

Most laser and other non-thermal printers cannot print over the entire label surface. There is usually a non-printable label area of about 5 mm from the border of a page. In Desktop Designer, this area is marked by a red line. Any object on or beyond the red line is not printed entirely.

Radius group enables you to make the label corners rounded.

  • Vertical radius: adjusts corner roundness value in the vertical direction.

  • Horizontal radius: adjusts corner roundness value in the horizontal direction.

Labels Across defines the number of labels to be printed on a single label sheet.

  • Horizontal count: number of labels in a row.

  • Vertical count: number of labels in a column.

  • Horizontal gap: horizontal distance between labels on a sheet.

  • Vertical gap: vertical distance between labels on a sheet.

  • Processing order: defines the direction in which labels are printed. Set the starting corner in which printing starts, and the horizontal/ vertical directions of label positioning.

Variable Label Size group enables the label size to change in accordance with the size of its objects.

When assigning additional data to label objects, their size increases and occupies more space. Therefore, the label height must adapt.

  • Offset: distance between the last object on a label and the bottom edge of a label.