User guide

Chapter 5: Reports 79
Print reports
You can print your reports directly to your printer or to a file. If you print to a file,
you can preview your reports before printing them. You can write all of your
reports into one file, or write each type of report to a separate file.
Send the reports
directly to the printer
Enter the port address of the printer (for example, Lpt1) in the Output Destination
parameter. Follow the guidelines for setting this as a default for all reports, or
setting it in the individual report setup.
The printer must be ready and waiting when Label Studio reaches the report-
writing stage of your job!
One report file To send all of your reports to one file:
1. Expand the Report Setup folder. Double-click the Report Defaults block.
2. Enter a file name in the Output Destination box, such as $job.out. Do not
name any specific report that you are printing. For example, if printing the
Job Summary, leave the Output Destination parameter blank in that report’s
job file block.
3. For the first report being printed, select Replace in its job file block, and
select Append for all others. Reports are printed in the order that they appear
in the job diagram.
For example, if you are printing the Job Summary and the Print Log, select
Replace in the Job Summary block. The Job Summary report is the first
report printed and overwrites any existing reports by the same name. In the
Print Log block, select Append. The new Print Log is added to the file.
This file can be large, but Label Studio offers options that can help you organize
and print it conveniently. For example, you can insert banner pages between the
reports. Select this option in the Report Defaults block.
Separate file per
report type
This approach gives you more files to handle, but they are smaller and you can
more easily find a particular report.
Leave the Output Destination box blank in the Report Defaults block. Instead,
enter a file name at this parameter in each of the individual report blocks. To
distinguish one report file from another, use the following file-naming method.
File names based on the
job
To save time and keep files manageable, Label Studio offers a shortcut for
naming report files. It’s called $job (“dollar job”). Here is an example of how it
works:
Job file Report type
Report file name, as
entered in job file
Report file
produced
speedy.lsj Job Summary $job.ljs speedy.ljs
Job Print Log $job.lpl speedy.lpl
Inkjet Simulation $job.lis speedy.lis
Inkjet Format Summary $job.lfs speedy.lfs