Label printing: printer stops after every label

danielbouwmeester
danielbouwmeester Member Posts: 22
in NAV/Navision Classic Client
After previous discussions with several forum members I got very far with building tables, codeunit, forms, reports to build a label-tool directly from Dynamics NAV. From our tabular form of our Sales line, I push a button and the data from the selected line of the form is passed to a report.
However, until there everything is going fine! But then the label printer starts printing and is stopping after every single label: if I print 20 labels the printer is receiving the printjob as 20 individual labels!!! -1: I've tried several brands of professional label printer (Avery Denisson, Carl Valentin and Toshiba TEC), but only one type is printing continuous?!

Therefore I post this question here and hope somebody can help me:
- How can I modify my report so it won't send that much jobs to my printer, but just one!?

The design of the report is as the image below:
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Thanks in advance for your help!!!
"Make it idiot-proof and someone will invent a better idiot..."

Answers

  • rjmvdven
    rjmvdven Member Posts: 22
    Why not use Zebra printers? They are one of the best label printers in the market. You need to create a text file with ZPL codes and send that file via FTP to the printer. We are using these printers for instance for printing PostNL labels, so we can stick them on the parcel. But also for creating shelf labels.

    Zebra provides several examples of how to code with ZPL programming language, it's not really hard to understand.
    The only downside is that you cannot use the layout editor of NAV, so it is a bit more figuring out the positions of your fields.
    Best Regards,

    Remco van de Ven
  • AK
    AK Member Posts: 226
    I don't know the printers you mentioned, but Zebra printers are indeed very easy to use. Even easier than mentioned by rjmvdven, because they act just like any windows printer and don't need the ZPL code file. That is just for very special purposes.

    Have you set the NewPagePerrecord property to yes? What is the currreport.pageno for? You don't show the page number on the report as far as I can see.

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