single-label printers

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Hi Harry,

tried all that and more, much more... just does not want to play.
Prints, but always across the label. Tried label layouts, tried from
blank layout...

regards
Chris

Helpful Harry wrote:

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455f7e89$0$28181$5a62ac22 (AT) per-qv1-newsreader-01 (DOT) iinet.net.au>, c b
cbrown (AT) medicine (DOT) adelaide.edu.au> wrote:

I had been trying to get a Dymo 330 (something) to work from a mac
10.4.8 over the last couple of moths. It prints, but trying to get it to
print in the correct orientation, has so far proved impossible. The
matrix of page setup orientation, Filemaker layout sizes/label
configs... nada effective.

I'm open to suggestions

I haven't used the Dymo printers, but for ANY printer (as long as it
works through the Mac OS) it *should* be a simple matter of ...

- Create a new BLANK layout (don't bother with silly "label"
templates or anything else).

- Delete all the Layout Parts except the Body Part.

- In Layout mode, choose Page Setup from the file menu and
set the appropriate page size and orientation for the Dymo
printer (not "any printer" or any other printer).

- FileMaker should now show you the page breaks for that
page size / orientation and you can put the fields on the
Layout to fit inside that. You may need to pull the bottom
of the Body Part up to fit within the page breaks.

If you're still having problems, perhaps there's a newer version of the
printer driver on the company's website.

Helpful Harry
Hopefully helping harassed humans happily handle handiwork hardships ;o)

#12

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<4562094f$0$1618$5a62ac22 (AT) per-qv1-newsreader-01 (DOT) iinet.net.au>, c b
<cbrown (AT) medicine (DOT) adelaide.edu.au> wrote:

Quote:

Hi Harry,

tried all that and more, much more... just does not want to play.
Prints, but always across the label. Tried label layouts, tried from
blank layout...

If it ALWAYS prints across the label and if that's the only problem,
then the work-around solution would be to rotate the fields.

)

Go into Layout mode, click on a field or select multiple fields, then
choose Rotate from the Arrange menu. That will rotate the fields by
90degrees - you can keep choosing Rotate to rotate them through 90,
180, 270 and back to normal.

The only problem here is that on some printers the rotated text doesn't
come out particularly neatly.

Helpful Harry
Hopefully helping harassed humans happily handle handiwork hardships ;o)

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