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Glossary

These are the words Labelyard uses, in the interface, in the documentation and in the API reference. Each concept has one English term and one German term; use them in every page you write.

Term German Meaning Avoid
sheet Bogen One page of self-adhesive labels, cut into cells. -
cell Zelle One label position on a sheet. -
sheet type Bogentyp The layout of a kind of sheet: size, grid and where each cell sits. -
print inbox Druckeingang The place where prints from other systems wait until someone releases them. -
tape Band The cassette that a tape printer prints on. -
roll Rolle Continuous label stock on a roll, as a page printer takes it. -
template Vorlage A saved design that a label is printed from. -
printer Drucker A device Labelyard prints on. -
tray Fach A paper tray of a page printer that holds sheets. -
calibration Kalibrierung The correction that makes a print land exactly on the cells of a tray. -
preview Vorschau The picture of a label as it will print. -
print job Auftrag One request to print, tracked from the queue to the result. -
batch Stapel Several labels printed together in one go. -
queue Warteschlange The line of print jobs of one printer. Nothing prints past it. -
label Etikett The thing that gets printed and stuck on. -
API key API-Schlüssel The secret that lets a program call the API. API-Key