Using POS to make price labels for products

[PRTek]

Is there a way to add a label printer and download the details of the item to make the price labels?  I am us EZ POS 13.  How do I set it up?

[ronaldrwl]

From the help document:

Labels with Barcodes
1 - You must have a label printer.  A regular printer with Avery sheets will not work.  It must be a label printer that prints one label at a time.
2 - Open the Products / Product Control window.
3 - The File menu is were the label options are located.
4 - Use the "Choose Product Label Printer" to select your label printer.
5 - You can design up to 3 label formats.  Select one.
6 - Now you are in the Label Layout window where you can design your label.
7 - Put up to 8 fields on the label.
8 - For the Barcode field select UPC, Item# or whatever product field has your UPC's.
9 - Use the Font button to select your barcode font.  The barcode font does not come with the POS.  Usually a label printer will include some barcode fonts.  If not, you can use the "Free 3 of 9" font available on the internet.  You must also check the "Barcode Format" box.  This tells the POS to add the start and stop characters to your barcode.

Tips: 
Barcode fonts are printed in large sizes.  Anything from 36 and bigger.
Set your label printer for maximum print quality.

[PRTek]

New Dymo LabelWriter 450 installed.  Labels are printing fine, but without any barcode.  I downloaded the 3 of 9 font but it is not adding to label.  How do I get them to talk to each other?

[ronaldrwl]

Steps 8 & 9 tell you how to get the barcode to print.

[PRTek]

Fixed!  Should have done this years ago :

[PRTek]

My barcodes are printing on the price label (using print product labels) but the hand scanner will not read them.  The scanner WILL read the barcodes that are already on the products though.  I am using the 3 of 9 font in the setup.  Where am I going wrong?

[ronaldrwl]

Check that the barcode field on the lable has the box checked "Barcode Format" and the Settings / General, Start/Stop Character field has a "*".

[PRTek]

I'm putting the * in the stop character field and closing.  But when I go back, the * is not there.  Its the same with all three registered.  None will keep it.   Should something else be checked there?

[ronaldrwl]

Are you getting any error messages?

[PRTek]

No error messages of any kind.  Just won't keep the * in that box and thus, I think, won't print the barcodes on the lables correctly.

[ronaldrwl]

I'm sending you the copy I'm using which seems to work.  Give that a try.

[PRTek]

uploaded new program and now the * stays in place on all machines.  Changed setup in Dymo Labelwriter printer and now the label set up looks right.  I Go to product label layout and enter UPC as label and check barcode font and choose Free 3 of 9 regular.  Barcode is 27210.  Prints on label on both Dymo printers at Different stations.  Looks good but doesn't scan. 

Checked scanner with barcode printed on package--works.  Determined not scanner problem but print problem.  Double checked * still in place..hmmm

What am I missing?

[ronaldrwl]

Print a label with the same barcode as your test label that scans and see if something is missing in the bars.  Also check that the driver is set to highest quality printing and that the label is large enough for the scanner to read.