Label Printing At

Hampden-Sydney College Library

Toni HamlettHampden-Sydney CollegeSIUG November 13, 2008

History

• We printed labels from OCLC Connexion

• If we needed labels from Millennium, we hand typed them into the OCLC Label Program.

• Our printer was a Lexmark Dot Matrix Pin fed printer

Our Goals

• Print directly from Millennium and Connexion to the same printer

• Each cataloger could have his/her own printer

• Printing could be done in the stacks by students to replace faded labels

Equipment/Software• Printer:

– Zebra TLP 2844 thermal transfer printer• Software is from Rasmussen Software, Inc.

– Print Wizard Server Edition– There is support at the website for using

software with Millennium• Tablet PC • Wireless Scanner

Software

• Print Wizard Server Edition is a product that can enhance and adapt the output from Millennium on its way to the printer.

• In order to get PWSE involved in the printing process, it must be inserted into the “printing pipeline” that flows from Millennium to the printer. 

Software (cont.)

• It was a little tricky but we received good help directly from Bob Rasmussen as needed.

• The Print Wizard Server Edition has to be installed on each computer that will be used to print from. – In order to get the print data from

Millennium to Print Wizard, Print Wizard needs to use its "listen mode", which is a feature that is in Server Edition only.

Software (cont.)

• The general setup involves installing a printer, setting its port to be a local TCP/IP port, running Print Wizard to listen for print jobs on that port and then setting the application up to print to that particular TCP/IP address and port.

• This is called “localhost” printing.

Setting Print Options

• Printer must be set up in the Print Wizard Program to select font, font style, and font size. There is a file in the Print Wizard Program that is customized to the label stock you use.

• In Millennium the Label Printer must be set to access the local printer and some parameters set.

Label Stock• Vernon #7713

– Fan-Fold foil backed labels, SP1/SP2– We have them rolled onto a ½” core– Either way will work in the printer

                                                                                                                                                               

Printing from Millennium• Set the Label Printer to the localhost printer

your created

Printing from Millennium (cont.)

Printing from Millennium (cont.)

Conclusions

• We have had no problems since we have installed all hardware/software in August 2007

• We have a student come 2 hours per week to replace labels as needed in the stacks

• Catalogers love these printers.