Tractor fed Label Printing and form feed or label size

What label format are you using? If it's one of the Avery types, you may need to adjust the Label Height or the number or Rows per page in Label designer. You may also need to create a paper type in the Windows printer properties to match your Label Designer Settings.

Glenn Adams Tiber Creek C> I load a generic text driver or WinXP drivers for an Epson or Panasonic

Yes I am using a predefined Avery Label. It prints the single label just fine, then page feeds 10 more inches/10 labels as if the label is 8.5x11 page format. How do I tell it that the label/ page is 1" high? I set parameters of the label but the printer only has 8.5x11 fanfold paper size.

"Glenn Adams [MVP - Retail Mgmt]" wrote:

Most windows printer drivers allow you to add custom paper sizes, but I don't remember the last time I saw a tractor feed printer, so that may not be available in the driver. Did you set the ROWS in the label designer to 10 (or 11 - however many rows are on the sheet)?

Glenn Adams Tiber Creek C> Yes I am using a predefined Avery Label. It prints the single label just

I have looked in both the Epson FX850, MS generic Text only, and the Panisonic 2130 properties for paper size and all just have the common 8.5x11, A4,envelopes, fan fold 8.5x11, and such. The owner has boxes of 1x4in fan fold tractor feed labels and gets impatient when he uses his laser printer with labels 3 columnx11 rows of labels, espically if he his printing a few labels and he has a partial sheet of labels to deal with. His old program use to use the tractor feed labels and it worked fine for 1 label or hundreds. May be I am not looking in the right place in the label designer to make that setting. Thanks for the help.

"Glenn Adams [MVP - Retail Mgmt]" wrote:

Bill,

Start | Settings | Printers | File | Server Properties | Look for a 3.5 x 1 inch, if not there, create one | Create new form | name it * 3.5 x 1 inch so it will be the first in the list | 3.5 inch wide .09375 high | Save it

Go into the 2130 Printer's properties | Preferences button | Paper tab | select the tractor feed | Advanced button | find the * 3.5 x 1 inch you just created | Apply | Device Settings tab | Tractor feed | select the * 3.5 x 1 label again for all 3 lines | Apply | back to the General tab | in the Paper Available box, you should _only_ have the * 3.5 x 1

In RMS, use the 4145 label, either with or without the Bin location printed on it

I get down to here in your directions and pull up the printer properties and the selection for my newly created label is not in the drop down.

Do I need to reboot so the file will be read again or redirect it to look somewhere else??

I appreciate your efforts...

"Bill" wrote:

Bill,

Sorry, you need to select the printer first (click on it once), then create the form, File | Server Properties...

Bill,

Dunno, just went and did the same on all 7 machines here, SBS 2003, 5 XP and a W2K, and all worked. Logged in as an Admin?

From MS KB 157172;

NOTE: On a Windows 2000 computer, occasionally the newly created form will not appear in the drop down list under paper size. If you encounter this, you may need to select an existing form under server properties, modify the settings, check box to create a new form, change the form name and save the form. Once you save the form, it should appear in the paper size drop down box.

Have always been logged on as Administrator. The interesting thing I am finding is that on the print server there is a list of forms like 20-30 of them from metric to US sizes, including my newly created labels. Now on the printers there is only 5-7 forms, not the entire list from the print server. Are you seeing the entire list from the server on the individual printer paper/ output form drop down selection??

"Jeff" wrote:

Bill,

Looks like it depends on the printer driver. I see more with the generic than with the specific printer.