Navigation Menu: Printing

• Create Print Job Manually
• Add Details to Print Job from Excel
• Print Actions: Postpone & Resume, Cancel, Reprint
• Print History
• Ability to trim product prefixes from labels when printing
• Locking the Tag's Memory

Create Print Job Manually

Select Printing from the navigation menu on the left.

• Click the “+” button located in the top right corner of the screen

1. Select the printer you wish to print to
2. A. Select the desired layout. B. A preview of the label appears to the right
3. Ref provides a window to enter a related reference field
4. Print Job settings to enable EPC lock and/or enable EPC Verification for the job. These settings can be permanently enabled from the Printer Profile page.
5. Search and add the item(s) you wish to print from the search bar on the right.
6. Uploader to to upload print job details
7. Once added, you can change the quantity of tags you'd like to print for the item.
8. Print - When ready, click 'Print' at the bottom right of the page to print immediately.
9. Postpone - If you would like to print the labels at a later time, click 'Postpone' and start printing later.
10. Close - If you would like to cancel the print job altogether, click 'Close' and no information will be saved.

From this point, you can add optional tag-specific information such as born date, expiration date, sell by date, lot number, serial number, or cost. None of it is required, but if you do not change anything, the tag’s default born date will be the day it is printed. To add this information, click on the name of the item once and the details panel will pop up on the right

Add Details to Print Job from Excel

Add details to a print job using a spreadsheet. Use our formatted spreadsheet template, or use your own template.

Inside the Printing > Create Print Job page, click the upload button on the right

If you'd like to use our spreadsheet template and input data there, in the new pop up window, click on the “Get Template” button. Then fill out the information for your print job and save the spreadsheet.

• Back on the web,  click the '+ Choose' button and select the file with the information you saved
• Once the file has been selected, click 'Import'

Next, if you're using your own existing spreadsheet instead of the template, click "The Custom Template details" and select which columns contain the corresponding information.

It will then add all the items to the print job, which you can print immediately or postpone.

Note: If any of the information from the uploaded spreadsheet is invalid, you'll see this validation error on that item in the list

A good practice is to scan the labels and upload them to verify that all tags have been printed correctly.

Print Actions: Postpone & Resume, Cancel, Reprint

Postpone & Resume

Perhaps you want to save your print job and print it later. To do this, instead of clicking "Print" from the Print Controller, click "Postpone."

This will create a saved Print Job which will appear on the Print History

On the main Printing page, you can see the Printing Status of each job in the listed history.

Start

• To start a print job, click the start button under the 'Actions' column

Pause

• To pause a print job, click the

Cancel

• To cancel the job, click the strike-through circle icon

Reprint

• To reprint a print job, click the "reprint" icon

Clicking reprint will create a new job with the same details

• Click Postpone to save the job in postponed status
• Click Print to initiate the print job immediately
• Click Close to exit without saving

Print History

The print history displays a comprehensive record of all completed, postponed, and pending jobs. It includes a 'Print Actions' column that allows you to pause, cancel or reprint jobs.

Ability to trim product prefixes from labels when printing

If you have information in one of your Product fields that you wish to have trimmed when printing, follow these steps to trim these properties.

This feature requires Manager level permissions

• Using a manager’s account, access the Customer Profile from the Admin menu in the top right of the web portal
• Then enter any prefixes that you wish to be trimmed from products named when printing
• Finally, click save.

Locking the Tag's Memory

Locking your tags prevents the tags from being edited. This is a requirement for all GS1 tags being submitted to ALEC for approval.

Locking the Tag's Memory

• Navigate to the Print Jobs menu in the left menu
• Before starting the print job, click the "EPC Lock" check-box

• This will permanently lock the tag and prevent it from being re-encoded