Package and box labels

Package labels

Package labels go on each wrapped package. Each label shows NOT FOR SALE, the product, the owner, the wrap date, the order and animal, the tag, a blank for the weight, and a QR code. Scanning the code with a phone opens the order in Gambrel Book, after signing in.

1. On the order page, open Print and select Print Package Labels. The order is saved first.
2. The list shows the order's lines that take labels, each with a number of Labels filled in: a product's quantity, or for a product sold by the pound, its pounds rounded up (one label per one-pound package). A custom line has none until you enter one. Services aren't labeled.
3. Change the number if you need more or fewer, and select Labels on the line. Its labels are laid out, wrapped today.
4. To change the number or the Wrap date, edit it and select Show labels.
5. Select Print.

A product made from several animals (a pooled line, such as a batch of sausage) is one line, so you print its labels once for the batch.

Box labels

Box labels go on the boxes an order is stored in. Each shows the customer, the order, the slot or locker, the animals and their tags, "Box 1 of 3" and a QR code.

1. On the order page, open Print and select Print Box Labels.
2. Enter the number of Boxes, select Show labels, then Print.

Label sizes

Each site picks the size of its package labels and its box labels on Sites, to match the labels in its printer:

The label page says which size it prints ("Printing 4" × 2" labels"). If what comes out doesn't fit the label, the printer on that computer is set to a different size: see below.

Choosing labels

Use a direct thermal label printer that installs with its own driver on your computer, and freezer-grade labels. Ordinary thermal labels come off frozen, damp packages.

Setting up a label printer

Do this once on each computer that prints labels.

1. Install the printer's driver

Install the driver from the printer maker's website, so the printer shows up in your computer's list of printers:

• Zebra: the ZDesigner driver, from Zebra Support.
• Rollo: Rollo's guide, Installing Rollo Driver on Windows.
• Brother QL: the printer driver from Brother Support, under your model's Downloads.
• DYMO: the driver from DYMO's website, for your model.

2. Set the label size in the printer's settings

The printer needs to know the size of the labels loaded in it. Set it in the printer's own settings, which the maker's guide covers:

• Zebra: Zebra's article Configure or Modify Basic ZDesigner Driver Version 10 or Version 8 Settings covers Printing Preferences, where the Page Setup tab sets the width and height.

• Rollo: Rollo's article Create Custom Size Labels. For the USB printer it says, first:

  Run the automatic label identification on the printer

  Press and hold the top circle button on the Rollo printer until it beeps one time.

  On Windows:

  Windows requires entering your label size in millimeters.

  So a 4" × 2" label is 100 × 50 mm, 4" × 3" is 100 × 75 mm and 4" × 6" is 100 × 150 mm. On a Mac, Rollo's article Mac: Select default label size for Rollo says:

  In the Print Prompt Window, under Paper Size, click on 'Manage Custom Sizes'

  Click on '+' to add a new size.

• Brother QL: choose the 62 mm label in the driver's Printing Preferences; see your model's manual on Brother Support.

3. Print once from Chrome with the right settings

Open a label page and select Print. In Chrome's print window:

1. Destination: choose the label printer.
2. Open More settings.
3. Paper size (when shown): the label size.
4. Margins: None.
5. Options: uncheck Headers and footers, so the page title, address and date aren't printed on the label.
6. Select Print.

Chrome keeps these settings for that printer, so the next labels print the same way. If a label comes out with text cut off, a small page inside the label, or the page address along the edge, check these settings again.

Chrome's help: Print from Chrome. The setting names above are Chrome's own.