Sheets and layouts
A page printer prints onto label sheets: A4 or letter pages with a grid of labels. Labelyard keeps track of every physical sheet, so a sheet you only half used can go back into the tray and be filled later.
Sheet types
Section titled “Sheet types”A sheet type describes a product: page size, the number of rows and columns and the measurements of a cell. Open Sheets to create one or to import one. Sheet types are versioned: when you correct a measurement, you add a version, and sheets that were already in use keep the version they were printed with.
You can export a sheet type to a file and import it in this or another hub, so a product only has to be measured once.
Every sheet type has its own switch QR codes on labels, in the details of the type in the Sheet archive. A new type starts with it on when the shorter side of a label is at least 10 mm: on 25.4 × 10 mm labels a QR code with a short number beside it prints and scans. With the switch off, the labels on that type are printed without their QR code, the sheet ID label included, and the print preview marks those cells with “Code only on this sheet type”. Types that already exist keep the setting they have.
Sheets and their ID label
Section titled “Sheets and their ID label”Each physical sheet gets its own code. When you add a sheet, you can print an ID label for it right away, so you can scan it later. A sheet knows which of its cells are free and which are used.
- Free cells take the next labels.
- Unconfirmed cells are cells of a job whose outcome is not known, for example when the printer failed mid-page. Check the sheet and confirm which of them were printed.
- Discarding a sheet takes it out of the picker. Its code is never given out again; labels already printed stay printed.
Printing onto a sheet
Section titled “Printing onto a sheet”Choose Print onto a sheet, pick the sheet (or scan its code) and the cells. The preview shows where every label goes. When not everything fits, the rest stays in the cart for the next sheet, or the preview plans it on the next one.
If another device used cells of the same sheet while you were looking, the hub tells you and asks you to check the new plan before it prints.
Layouts
Section titled “Layouts”A layout decides what a label shows: a QR code, a code, a title and a detail line, in combinations from “code only” to “QR code, code, title and detail”. Layouts that need a field the item does not have are refused before printing, with the missing field named. On a sheet type with QR codes switched off, a QR layout prints its text only (see Sheet types).