We use Zebra 140xii and 105se printers throughout our shop for shipping
labels, pan tags, reject tags, etc. They are nice heavy duty printers in
metal cabinets (we tried the cheaper models in the plastic cases and they
broke down within a year. Our original 90 model (11yrs old) is still
running with limited maintenance (had to replace the drive belt twice)). I
have them connected to the network using HP Jetdirect print servers which
allows me to share them among the computers.
As for the labels, I found that the crystal reports worked but was too
limited unless using ODBC. We have several customers who want their
specific label design on their parts. We use Label Matrix to design and
print the labels. I have setup a user field on the Customer VBForm to
contain the name of the label format the customer requires, then added a
simple progress program to print labels on the Vantage menu. (The Progress
program dumps the Vantage Shipping data to a DBF file [just like crystal
does] for Label Matrix to read, then executes the Label Matrix print routine
with the label format defined in the Customer VBForm. All the shipping
person has to do is select the Packing slip number from a drop down box
(default to most current packing slip) and click the "Print Labels" button,
the number of labels is required is read off the packing slip line items.)
Michael Podlin
-----Original Message-----
From: Peter J. McGuire [mailto:
pmcguire@...]
Sent: Friday, March 09, 2001 9:08 AM
To:
vantage@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [Vantage] Label Printers
We want to install a printer in our shipping department to just print labels
from Vantage. I am assuming that this can be done. What printers are others
using to do this? Also, are there any "gotchas" to watch out for? Thank you.
Peter McGuire
Lovejoy Chaplet Corp.
pmcguire@...
(518) 686-5232
Fax: 686-4919
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