User manual

Designing Labels

Designing a Basic Label

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Add Variable Fields

Overview

You may want to print a label on which the data changes for each label. ZebraDesigner Pro

offers different variable fields (counters, date/time fields, operator’s input from the keyboard)

that you can use with text, graphics, and bar code objects.

For this example, a new label was created. The steps in the following topics explain how to

create a label that contains a prompted field, a counter, and date/time fields.

The captions in the following screenshots were added separately.

Figure 27 • The left label shows design mode, the right two labels are two

consecutive labels from print preview

Create Keyboard Entry Variable Fields

The content of a prompted field can be different for every print job. Before you print the label,

you enter the value for the field.

1. To display a list of available variable types, click the small arrow next to the

button in the

Toolbox.

2. From the list, select New Keyboard Input and click on the label where you want to

position the object.