User guide

Label Studio User’s Guide

Format reports

Before printing reports, you set up several options for their appearance:

 Basics: File name, number of copies, what to do if the file already exists, and

so on.

 Page layout: Page size, margins, headers, and capitalization.

 Printer setup: Control codes that switch your printer into a different font,

size, print direction, and so on.

Defining your report

format

You can control your report-printing options at several levels:

 Universal: You can create “universal” report settings if you plan to use them

for most jobs. To set these, choose Tools > Options > Defaults, and then click

the Report Defaults tab. Your settings here will be used as defaults whenever

you create a new job.

 Job: Within a particular job, you can override the “universal” report settings,

and set defaults that will apply to all reports in that job. Expand the Report

Setup folder and double-click the Report Defaults block. These settings

override your Universal settings.

 Report: Finally, you can customize the settings for one report within a

particular job. Expand the Report Setup folder and double-click the specific

report’s block (for example, the Job Summary block). These settings override

the Job settings.

General features of

reports

Most reports have the following features:

 The report name is shown in the upper left-hand corner of each page.

 Normally, the software name and version number are shown. You have the

option to suppress this information in the Report Defaults block.

 You can define up to four header lines. You can enter them once, to appear

the same on all reports, or set up a different header for a particular report

type. Label Studio will print all four lines at the top of each report.

Printer control Some printers let you select fonts, lines per inch, and other options from their

control panel. However, then you have to set up the printer every time you print.

A better way is to embed printer-control codes (also known as escape sequences)

in your Label Studio reports. These parameters send control signals to your

printer to switch fonts, set line spacing, use condensed fonts, and so on. You can

set up these codes in your Label Studio job, using the Printer Init and Printer

Reset parameters. Find these parameters in each of the three report setting

locations (Universal, Job, and Report).

For a list of codes your printer recognizes, see your printer manual.