Labels and printing
Yessort produces labels and documents — courier labels, packing slips, pick lists, and labels for products, locations and licence plates. Getting them onto paper needs one more thing: a machine at your site that talks to your printers.
The chain
Yessort queues a job. A machine at your site fetches it. That machine sends it to a printer.
The middle step is the print agent — a small application running on a computer at the site, either a Mac menubar app or a Windows tray app.
Nothing prints until the agent is running. Yessort can queue jobs perfectly well without one; they simply wait.
Two reasons nothing came out
Worth knowing before you go looking, because they need different fixes.
The agent is not running, so nothing is fetching jobs. They sit queued.
No printer matched. Yessort works out which printer a job should go to, and if nothing matches, the job parks rather than fails. It waits for a printer to be resolvable.
Fix a print that did not appear works through both.
How a printer gets chosen
Not a single setting — a short cascade. An explicit choice on the request wins; otherwise routing rules decide, and otherwise the site's defaults.
It is the most useful thing to understand here, because it answers the common question of why something printed in the wrong place. See how a printer is chosen.
Labels you design yourself
Product, location and licence-plate labels are rendered from templates you lay out yourself — a canvas with text, barcodes and images placed where you want them.
Courier labels are different: they come from the carrier, already made. See courier labels and reprints.
Printers belong to a site, not an organisation
Printing hardware is physical. A printer sits in a building, and the building is a site — so devices and printers belong to the site, and everyone with access to that site sees them.
In a shared warehouse, every organisation working there sees the same printers. See the print agent and devices.
Concepts
- How printing works — the chain from queued job to paper.
- The print agent and devices — what runs at your site.
- How printers are found — discovery, kinds and statuses.
- How a printer is chosen — the resolution cascade.
- Label templates — designing your own labels.
- Label batches — printing many labels at once.
- Courier labels and reprints — why a reprint costs nothing.
How to
Start with install the print agent and pair a device, then get your printers discovered and set a site's default printers.
After that: route labels to a specific printer, design a label template, print a batch of product labels, and fix a print that did not appear.