The Barcode Manager allows you to control the printing of barcodes through both a regular A4 printer as well as a dedicated label printer.
Enabling the Barcode Manager
To begin using the Barcode Manager, it needs to be enabled first. To do this:
- From the main screen of Retailer, click on Setup -> Point of Sale.
- Then click on the Terminals tab.
- In Label Printing Options, select Barcode Manager.
- Click Save and Close.
Using the Barcode Manager
There are a couple of ways to access the Barcode Manager:
- Click on Stock -> Barcode Manager from the main screen of Retailer.
- Click on Stock Maintenance -> Barcode Manager on the top menu bar.
The grid in Barcode Manager shows the queue of labels.
- Only items marked as No in the Printed column will be printed.
- Columns can be shown/hidden. See Changing Columns
Double click a Stock Item in Barcode to open the Stock Screen
Printing Barcode Options
- Use Show Barcodes and Show Shelf Labels to change what type is to be printed
- If ticked, Force print to default printer overrides the Barcode Manager printer settings and prints to the windows default printer
- If Auto Print when queue full is ticked, barcodes will automatically be printed when there are enough labels to fill a sheet.
- Tick Print number beneath Code-128 to print barcode number under barcode
- Tick Print Invoice Header label to print a label with Invoice Details at the start of its respective labels.
- The options beneath the Barcode Manager grid allow an order in which labels are printed to be set
Barcode Manager Buttons
- Reset
- Resets the "Printed" status of all labels to No.
- Print
- Prints all unprinted labels, used for an A4 printer.
- Print Label Printer
- Prints all unprinted labels, used for a dedicated label printer.
- Shelf Label Settings
- Allows you to change how shelf labels print on the label sheets. Click HERE to learn more.
- Add/Edit Labels
- Allows you to add or customise labels. See Creating / Editing a Custom Barcode / Shelf Label
- Delete Record
- Deletes the selected label from queue
- Clear Queue
- Clears the entire queue of labels.
- Printer Settings
- Allows
you to choose which printer to use for A4 label sheets (unless
overridden by default printer option) or a Label Blaster printer. There is also the
Advanced Settings section for Blaster Label alignment.
- Barcode Settings
- Allows you to change alignment and how barcode labels print on A4 label sheets. Click HERE to learn more.
- Label Setup Utility
- Allows you to add additional labels to the queue. Click HERE to learn more.