How to Use FreeSize Paper |
For labels registered to the printer driver, you need to specify "Paper Size" and "Printable Area."
For "Paper Size," set the actual "Height" and "Width" of the label to be used. The printer will feed the label by the distance of this "Height."
For "Printable Area," set the size of the area in which images are to be printed within the "Paper Size." In the "Printable Area," you need to specify values for "Left," "Top," "Height" and "Width." These values constitute the size recognized by the application as a printable area.
"FreeSize" is one of the Paper Size/Printable Area options you can select,
instead of those set by the printer driver,
to change the paper size and the printable area freely through the application.
The paper size options, except the "FreeSize," registered to the printer driver cannot be changed through the application.
If the label information is managed through the application, you do not need to register labels to the printer driver.
- It has been confirmed that Free Size fail to operate correctly in MS-Word.
The values of Paper Size/Printable Area for "FreeSize" on the printer driver are used as default when the print size/area is not specified on the application.
Note that there are some instructions for paper setup as follows:
- Set the values for the left and the top margins to "0mm" because they will be reflected directly on the application. (The default is set to 0mm.)
- Select "Easy" or "Fixed Value" for Paper Feed Mode. If the paper size/printable area is changed through the application, the printing will be achieved because the printer will select the paper length set by the application. If the paper feed mode is specified to "Strict," the printer will take the length of the actual paper placed on it. This means that a paper feed error will occur if the paper length set by the application is different from the actual paper length.
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This paragraph explains how to select 50mm x 50mm paper, which is different from a paper size registered as FreeSize paper on the printer driver, when using CodeSoft6/Win as the application.CodeSoft has a feature called "Automatic Sizing" which allows you to set the paper size automatically to the printable area. If you use this feature, you have only to set the printable area; the set printable area will automatically determine the paper size.
On the "Page Setup," if you select the "Page" tab, then "FreeSize" for the paper size, "Auto Sizing" will be checked while the label size currently set on the CodeSoft will be set for Width and Height. If the paper size set on the CodeSoft is more than the maximum paper size allowed by the printer, CodeSoft will give you a warning message.
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Click the "Margins" tab.
Make sure that Left and Top margins are set to 0.
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Click on the "Label" tab.
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Change the width of the label size from 100.00mm to 50.00mm and the height from 60.00mm to 50.00mm.
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By clicking the "page" tab, you can see if the paper size is updated just as set in the previous step.
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The printable area and paper size have been set to 50mm x 50mm.
The base position of the print image is positioned at the top left corner of the printable area. If the size of the print image exceeds the maximum size of the printable area of the printer, the image outside of the printable area will not be printed. For example, if the width of the print image is more than the maximum width of the printable area, a warning message will be displayed as shown in the figure below.
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This paragraph describes how to create 10mm margins on top, bottom, left and right sides of a 100mm x 60mm form.Click the "Margins" tab.
Set 10mm for Left and Top. As shown in the Preview image, top and left margins will be created.
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Click the "Label" tab.
For the Label Size, set the sizes of the printable area. For Width, set 80mm because 100mm minus (10mm x 2) is 80mm. For Height, set 40mm, as 60mm minus (10mm x 2) is 40mm.
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Click the "Page" tab.
Uncheck the Automatic Sizing checkbox.
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If Width is set to 100mm and Height to 60mm, as you can see on the Preview, right and bottom margins will also be created.
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