User guide

Chapter 3: Printer setup 37
Specifying a default
printer
You can set a default printer for each printer type: Generic Text, Data Stream and
Inkjet. The default printer is automatically selected when the design printer
doesn’t exist or was deleted and in the Wizard Printer Setup window when
changing printer classes.
1. Choose Tools > Printer Setup.
2. Highlight a printer and then click Set Default.
3. Click Close.
Aligning barcodes
using tabs
If you use the Generic Text driver and print multi-up labels, you may want to use
tab stops to ensure that your barcodes are properly aligned with the address
information, or to decrease the output file size.
 To set the tab stops:
1. From Label Toolbox, select Tools > Printer Setup.
2. Highlight the Generic Text printer that you want to use and then click
Modify.
3. From the Modify Printer window, select Horizontal Tabs.
4. Set UseTabs to True.
5. Read your printer documentation to set the appropriate ClearTabCode and
StartTabCode settings. These settings clear any previously set tab stops, and
then specifies the new location of the tab stops. The tab stop values are
automatically calculated based on the page width and number of columns
specified in the design file. For example, if you create a 3-up label with a
page width of 120 columns, the tab stops are automatically set at columns 41
and 81.
6. Choose the code or symbol that separates the tab stop values and enter it in
the CodeBetweenTabs option, for example, a semi-colon (;).
7. Choose the code or symbol that indicates that there are no further tab stops
and enter it in the EndTabCode option. For example, if you have 3-up labels,
the code includes 2 tab stop symbols (;) and one end symbol (u).
Printing Intelligent
Mail barcode with
inkjet or generic text
driver
Using a supported printer and driver, you can adjust IMb options.
1. Choose the appropriate Intelligent Mail barcode font on your printer.
2. In Label Toolbox, choose Tools > Printer Setup.
3. Select the inkjet or generic text printer.
4. Click the Modify button.
5. In the Modify Printer window, select IM barcode on the left.
Windows printer. Label Toolbox uses the default Windows printer as
specified for the system.
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Using tab stops works only for printers that support the ANSI commands
related to clearing, setting, and outputting tabs and also support the values
for setting the tab stops in character format (for example, columns 41 and
81).