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Designing Labels for Mobile Devices
ThelabelingsoftwarehassupportformobilelabelprintingfromWindowsMobiledevices.Youcan
designthelabelwiththedesktoplabelingsoftwareandthenexportittotheMobiledevice.
Thepocketeditionoflabelingsoftwareisnotaspowerfulasdesktopeditionanddoesnotsupport
somefeaturesthatareavailableinthedesktopedition.Youmustbecarefulwhendesigningthelabel
forMobiledevice.Ifyouselectsomeunsupportedfeature,thelabelexportisnotpossible.
Someexamplesofunsupportedfeatures:
l Majorityofcomplexfunctionsarenotsupported(VisualBasicscripting,Userdefined
checkdigitalgorithms,HIBC,Lookuptable,Linktofile,etc.),butsomeare(Con-
catenate).
l Globalvariablesarenotsupported.
l Variablegraphicsarenotsupported.
l Databasesarenotsupported(butdatabasesaresupportedontheformcreatedinPower
Forms).
l VariabletextobjectsformattedinTruetypefontsarenotsupported(youcanusevariable
Truetypefontsifyoudownloadthemtothememorycardintheprinter)
l Advancedvariablefeaturesarenotavailable(prefix/suffix,advancedserialization,
rememberingthelastvalueused,formattingthedate/timestamps,etc.)
l etc.
Tofindoutifyourlabeliscompliantwiththeexportlimitations,dothefollowing:
1. Savethelabel.
2. SelectthecommandFile->Export->ExporttoPocketPC.
3. Ifyourlabelcomplieswiththelimitations,thelabelisexported.Thefileswithextensions
.PNLand.LVXwillappearinthesamefolder,whereyourlabelisstored.Youcancopy
themtotheMobiledevicewiththeMicrosoftActiveSync.
Ifyourlabeldoesnotcomplywiththelimitations,youwillseetheerrordialogboxthat
willexplainwhichunsupportedfeatureyouuseonthelabel.Removethatfeatureandtry
toexportthelabelagain.
FormoreinformationaboutthelabeldesignforMobiledevicesrefertothewhitepapersavailable
online.
Multicolor Printing
Somethermalprinterssupportmulticolorprinting.Theyusemultipleheads,eachheadforaribbonof
adifferentcolor.Thecolorsforeachprinterheadarecustomizableandcanbedefinedintheprinter
driver.Eachprintheadisassignedacolorthatmatchestheusedribbon.Thesamecolorsbecome
availableinthelabelingsoftware.Formulticolorprintingtoworkyouneedtousetheappropriate
NiceDriver.
Colorpalettesynchronizestheavailablecolorswithsettingsintheprinterdriver.Allcolorsyouhave
definedintheprinterdriverareretrievedinthelabelingsoftwareandmadeavailableforcolorselec-
tion.Colorpalette,colorselectiondialogboxandlabelsetupdialogboxalldisplayonlytheavailable
colorsfromtheprinter.Eachlabelelementcantheneasilybeassignedsomeoftheavailablecolors.
Theelementisthenprintedusingthatcolor.Morethanonecolorcannotbeusedwithasinglelabel
element.
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