User guide

14 Label Studio User’s Guide
Windows drivers
If you run Label Studio on a Windows operating system, you may want to use a
Windows printer driver to generate your labels and reports. Label Studio supports
all kinds of Windows printer drivers.
Features Windows drivers provide the most robust features and creativity when designing
your labels, such as:
 Using a variety of fonts, including barcode fonts
 Using images in your designs
 Using frames to control the appearance of your designs
 Dragging and dropping objects onto your label designs
 Printing creative banner pages
 Printing test labels
 The ability to print to a .pdf file using a PDF printer driver. See the Label
Toolbox help topic, “How to print to a .pdf.”
 Creating conditional filters and value expressions to control printing of
certain objects on your labels
See “Design labels” on page 45.
Printing performance Because Windows printer drivers provide so many features, it is easy to overload
your labels with objects and to slow down printing. As a general rule, the more
complex the label design (multiple frames or conditional filters, for example), the
more time it will take to evaluate and process your label design.
To improve printing performance:
 Limit the use of multiple frames on the label design.
 Limit the use of filters on the label design.
 When using value expressions, try to reduce the complexity (nested "if"
statements, for example) of those expressions.
Assign your Windows
printer to your job
Choose from and set up your printers in Label Toolbox. See “Define your printer
settings” on page 39 for more information.