Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] sheet label printing?

2011-07-13 Thread John C. Rucker 
Hi Jason,

That little utility (desperate hack, really) came out of us having no desire or 
money to buy new printers, since our previous ILS supported sheet labels. So a 
few hours of my time was better than buying several new printers. Presently I 
don't have any time at all for exploring how this could be integrated into 
Evergreen proper, though I hope that changes. But I also don't see us moving to 
single labels, either.

Oh, and the utility does allow you to choose an arbitrary starting point, not 
just a column. I never expected anybody else but us to use it...very happy that 
others found it useful, though.

-John



John Rucker
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Branch District Library
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On Jul 12, 2011, at 12:16 PM, Jason Etheridge wrote:

 Hi,
 
 I'm asking on behalf of an Evergreen user and would like to revisit
 the topic of sheet labels.  What are folks doing here, given that
 Evergreen currently doesn't have explicit support for such?
 
 I know some folks are printing to PDF and using this program to print
 a given column of labels:
 http://www.branchdistrictlibrary.org/professional/labels/
 
 I wonder if that program would be better if it could print an entire
 sheet from a given starting point rather than just a column?
 
 Re-working the existing label interface to support sheeting could be a
 large undertaking depending on the exact specs; any itches to
 do/support that?
 
 Or does someone have some report or A/T template that they feed into Word/etc?
 
 Has anyone seen a smart print driver that understands labels and does
 the correct thing on form feeds?
 
 Or maybe it's just better to move to feed labels?
 
 Thanks!
 
 -- 
 Jason Etheridge
  | Equinox Software, Inc. / Your Library's Guide to Open Source
  | phone:  1-877-OPEN-ILS (673-6457)
  | email:  ja...@esilibrary.com
  | web:  http://www.esilibrary.com

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] sheet label printing?

2011-07-13 Thread Jason Etheridge 
 Oh, and the utility does allow you to choose an arbitrary starting point, not 
 just a column. I never expected anybody else but us to use it...very happy 
 that others found it useful, though.

You know, I totally ignored the arrangement of the numbers and assumed
it would print horizontally, and my sample size was too small to
spread across multiple columns so I misunderstood how it worked.  So
if you started at label #7, and printed 12 labels, it should print #7
through #18 as listed on that table, eh?  Sweet.

-- 
Jason Etheridge
 | Equinox Software, Inc. / Your Library's Guide to Open Source
 | phone:  1-877-OPEN-ILS (673-6457)
 | email:  ja...@esilibrary.com
 | web:  http://www.esilibrary.com

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] sheet label printing?

2011-07-12 Thread Jason Etheridge 
Hi,

I'm asking on behalf of an Evergreen user and would like to revisit
the topic of sheet labels.  What are folks doing here, given that
Evergreen currently doesn't have explicit support for such?

I know some folks are printing to PDF and using this program to print
a given column of labels:
http://www.branchdistrictlibrary.org/professional/labels/

I wonder if that program would be better if it could print an entire
sheet from a given starting point rather than just a column?

Re-working the existing label interface to support sheeting could be a
large undertaking depending on the exact specs; any itches to
do/support that?

Or does someone have some report or A/T template that they feed into Word/etc?

Has anyone seen a smart print driver that understands labels and does
the correct thing on form feeds?

Or maybe it's just better to move to feed labels?

Thanks!

-- 
Jason Etheridge
 | Equinox Software, Inc. / Your Library's Guide to Open Source
 | phone:  1-877-OPEN-ILS (673-6457)
 | email:  ja...@esilibrary.com
 | web:  http://www.esilibrary.com