Printing Labels with Report Writer

Use Report Writer to design and print labels for mailing or inventory bins. For example, you can run a report to gather your customers' names and addresses, and then print these on labels for mass mailings. Or, you can run a report for all nonstock items and label the bins with these items accordingly.

To print labels using a Report Writer report:

Log into the character-based system. This feature is not available in a Solar Eclipse interface.
From the Reprts menu, select Report Writer to display the report writer view of the Report Writer/Mass Load screen.
Design a report for a single label.

Each column of the report represents one line of the label.
Use the same width for each column.

Use the Label hot key to display the Report Writer Label Specifications screen.
Change the default values displayed in the fields, as needed, to define the size and spacing between the labels.

Set the Print Labels (Y/N) field to Y.

Field	Description
Print Label (Y/N)	Indication whether this report prints labels.
# of Labels Across the Page	Number of columns of labels across the page.
# of Lines per Label (Height)	Maximum number of lines for the height of the label.
# of Lines to Skip Between Labels	Number of lines to skip between rows of labels.
# of Spaces to Indent (Left Margin)	Number of character spaces to indent for the left edge margin before printing the text on the label.
# of Spaces per Label (Width)	Maximum number of character spaces for a line of text on a label.
# of Spaces to Skip Between Labels	Number of character spaces to skip between labels across the page to create the right margin.
Print Null Fields (Y/N)	Indication whether to print null fields, such as blank address lines.
# of Line Up Labels to Print	Number of test labels the system should to print for alignment purposes before printing all of the labels.
# of Copies to Print for Each Label	Number of copies of each label to print.
Print Label Headings (Y/N)	This option is not active.

Press Esc to return to the Report Writer / Mass Load Design screen.
Use the Run Report hot key to run the report driver.

The Report Driver screen displays the prompts and default data entered for the required column and selection data.

Edit or enter any missing column data or selection data by doing one of the following:

Enter any missing data on this screen. This method applies the data only to the current report.
Use the Column Data and Selection Data hot keys to enter the missing data. This method commits the changes as defaults for the report layout.

Use the Print, Hold, or Opts hot keys to produce the labels.

Note: We recommend that you test a label report before printing the labels, because different printers interpret printer characteristics in different ways.