Alphanumeric Serialization
I am new to BarTender, in fact I have only been using the software for a couple days off and on. Consequently I know almost nothing.
My company purchased a couple printers to be able to print labels off for sample bags. The label will read something like:
EXPACR-3680-001, EXPACR-3680-002, EXPACR-3680-003, and so on. Every 20 labels we need to print EXPACR-3680-020 & EXMCR-3680-020.
My question is what is the best way to automate this process so that a user can input a starting and ending point, and the software will print off all of the desired labels in between those numbers; while still including the alphanumeric prefix.
I apologize for not explaining the problem quite as well as I should, I am a little out of my league here.
Thank you.
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Shotaro Ito
★ BarTender Hero ★
Hi Bfocht,
Can I assume you're using BarTender 10.0 or later, Professional or above? if not, please tell me the version and Edition of BarTender.
To create EXPACR-3680-XXX (XXX is serial number), you can create multiple data source in a text.
Create a text, double click to open property and add a data source by right click Data sources > New.
The first data source is "EXPACR-3680-" and second data source is "001", then in Transforms tab, select Increment serialization.
Every 20 labels we need to print EXPACR-3680-020 & EXMCR-3680-020.
Would that mean you have one extra label would be printed after 020, 040, 060.. etc, or you would have extra text on the same label in every 20 labels?
Number of serialized labels to print can be specified from Print dialog's [Serial Numbers],
however it doesn't allow you to enter start number and end number of serial numbers to print.
You might need small VB Script for that - see this post.
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Hi Shotaro Ito,
Currently we are on the Ultralite version of BarTender. I was waiting to see what version we need to upgrade to before we would actually upgrade, does that mean we need Professional?
We would also need an extra label printed after 020, 040, etc, however because it will almost never be more than 10-15 of these different lables if necessary we could enter these by hand.
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Number of serialized labels to print can be specified from Print dialog's [Serial Numbers],
Using that option is it possible to print two of every label? Ideally we would put one in each sample bag and staple one to the outside of the bag, I assume this is the wrong forum but since you mentioned it I thought I would ask.
Thank you for your help!
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Shotaro Ito
★ BarTender Hero ★
Hi Bfocht,
input a starting and ending point, and the software will print off all of the desired labels in between those numbersYou need at least Professional edition to do this. (done by VB Script).
About extra label in every 20 serialized, BarTender doesn't really have such setting.
When absolutely required you can create custom application to integrate with BarTender Automation edition (see some white papers about integration), however the most simple way is manually print the extra label as you suggested.
Using that option is it possible to print two of every label?Serialize question is fine in this forum - On the same Print dialog, when you have serialized object on the template, you can see [Identical copies per Serial number].
When you set [Serial Numbers] to 3, and [Identical copies per Serial number] to 2, it print total 6 labels like
A 001
A 001
A 002
A 002
A 003
A 003
If you have a pair of different label in the serialized order, you can create another template for outside from Page Setup > Templates > Primary templates > New.
When you have template A and B, ten set [Serial Numbers] to 3, it print 6 labels like
A 001
B 001
A 002
B 002
A 003
B 003
Check Help > Edition Requirement to see what edition required for current document, and see edition comparison chart to find appropriate edition.
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