Manage Label Templates
In Loftware Enterprise™ SP, a Designer
Person who creates and designs label templates, forms, and applications for use by Data Providers. can design a form for data entry, a label used for printed output, and the layout of labels within a page In relation to media, the organization of labels specified by a layout. In relation to the Loftware user interface, a top-level tab.. If you want to configure the organizational structure for a page, you can create a layout and associate the layout which each label template to which it should apply. Additionally, you can create reusable objects that contain components for use in a label and form so that you can incorporate them into labels and forms efficiently and consistently. You can use the same label template for printing regardless of the type of integration that you are using or whether you are printing via on-demand print.
The Loftware Enterprise SP library comes with some common images already installed, and if your organization migrated existing label templates from Loftware Print Server (LPS), then images unique to your organization may have been added to the library. You can also import images.
You can also export label templates or other objects as import (SER) files so that they can be imported into another instance of Loftware Enterprise SP.
For information about managing label templates in version-controlled folders, see Working in a Version-Controlled Environment.
Tip: You can create a new folder when you save a label template.
Using Layouts to Control Print Order on a Page
A label template allows you to design the layout of a printed label and the data entry form associated with that label. However, when printing a series of related labels or when printing labels onto stock with slots for multiple labels in each row, you may also want to manage the order in which labels are printed within a page of stock.
You can associate a layout with a label template to specify how many slots for labels exist on a page of stock and in what order to print labels on a page. For example, you could specify that twelve slots for labels exist on each page, three across each row and four down each column. By configuring the Fill Direction and Start Origin, you could specify that labels should be printed on the page beginning with the label in the top left slot and then progressing vertically down slots in the first column before moving to the next column.
Tip: You can associate the same layout with multiple label templates.
If a Designer associates a layout with a label template, then a Data Provider Person or process that enters data into a form or other data entry view for a label that was configured by a Designer. A user acting as a Data Provider requires the DOCUMENT_PRINTER role or equivalent permissions. who uses Print