User guide

10 Label Studio User’s Guide
Welcome to Label Studio!
Label Studio is a powerful tool that links your input files and label designs with
your printing system. You can create address labels, sack and tray labels, pallet
placards, and generic labels, and output them on your printing system.
Label Studio’s place in
the mail process
Although you can use Label Studio on input files that haven’t been presorted,
most customers use input files that they presorted either with Business Objects’
Presort program or with another presort program. If you use Label Studio with
presorted files, you may follow a process like this:
1. Clean up the name and firm data in each record with DataRight IQ.
2. Correct and encode address information in each record with ACE.
3. Delete or consolidate duplicate records using Match/Consolidate.
4. Presort your records according to USPS regulations to receive postage
discounts.
5. Generate your address and shipping (sack, tray, or pallet) labels with Label
Studio.
Label Studio’s parts You set up your Label Studio jobs in the main, Job Editor window. However,
there is more to Label Studio than what you initially see. The following is a list of
Label Studio’s parts:
 Label Toolbox: Choose Tools > Design Labels to open this drag-and-drop
label designing tool. You set up your label designs and printers here. See
Chapter 3 for more information.
 Label Studio Print: Run your jobs right from your Windows command
prompt or UNIX command line. See Appendix B for more information.
 Filter Builder: To print objects or text conditionally on your labels, you will
use Filter Builder to create value expressions or conditional filters. Access
Filter Builder in Label Toolbox from your object’s properties window. See
Appendix A for more information.