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Printing Sample Labels

Configuring Printers

Printing Sample labels requires the configuration of one (1) or more printers. All printers defined in this Configuration appear in the picklist when printing Sample labels in the Sample Plan tab.

  1. Navigate to the Configuration app

  2. Select New Configuration

  3. Name the new Configuration label_printing

  4. Add the following code to the Configuration:

{
  "printers": [
    {
      "printer_id": "00123",
      "esp_display_name": "Zebra 01"
    },
    {
      "printer_id": "00124",
      "esp_display_name": "Zebra 02"
    }
  ]
}

5. Select Save

Note

To add more than one (1) printer, add another set of curly brackets separated by a comma.

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Printing Sample Labels

Only Sample Point fields appear on the Sample Plan tab. To print Sample labels, create a Pipeline that formats and prints the labels. Then add the Pipeline to a Recipe using a Pipeline Button field.

This Pipeline must have the following parameters:

  • printer – the name of the printer as configured in the label_printing Configuration

  • labels – a string containing a comma-separated list of Sample IDs for the labels being printed

  • barcodes – a string containing a comma-separated list of Sample barcodes for the labels being printed

… and return a success/failure status back to MES.

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