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Label sheets

With the System printer (CUPS, IPP), an office printer prints on sheets of self-adhesive labels: A4 or US Letter pages with a grid of labels, as Avery, Zweckform, Herma and many others sell them. Tavletta knows more than 1700 of these sheets, from the template collection of gLabels.

Choose the sheet

  1. Printer model: System printer (CUPS, IPP).
  2. Print on: Label sheet. The list of sheets opens.
  3. Search by brand and part number as printed on the package ("Avery L7160", "Zweckform 3475"), or by the size of one label in millimetres ("70x37", either way round). The paper size narrows the list down.
  4. The picture shows the sheet; Use sheet takes it.

The label now has the size of the sheet's labels. Round labels and CDs are designed as a rectangle, and printed only inside their shape; the preview shows them that way.

  • Turn the content: for labels read from the side, such as folder spines: the label is designed lying on its side and turned onto the sheet.
  • Print on: Single label prints the label as a page of its own again; choosing Label sheet again brings back the last sheet.

Partly used sheets

Positions shows the sheet. Click a label to leave it out (it is already used) or to print on it again, or set Start at position: the labels are counted row by row from the top left. This only applies to the first sheet; further sheets are filled completely. The sheet and the positions are saved with the label.

Print

  • Labels: how many labels to print. At first as many as positions are chosen; more fill further sheets. The dialog shows how many sheets that takes.
  • Print outlines: prints the outline of every label. Print a test page on plain paper first and hold it against a label sheet in front of a light: if the content sits inside the outlines, the sheet fits.
  • Office printers cannot print near the paper's edges. Tavletta asks the printer for that margin and warns if the content of a label (inside the Safety margin) reaches into it. Leave those positions out, or increase the Safety margin.
  • The paper size comes from the sheet; turn off "fit to page" in the printer's setup, otherwise the printer may scale the sheet.

Older versions of Tavletta refuse to open labels for a label sheet and say that the label needs a newer version, instead of printing them as a single page.

The sheet templates come from gLabels (© Jaye Evins, MIT license).