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Printing Unqualified Barcode Labels

Printing Unqualified Barcodes with TapeTrack Barcode Printer is accomplished by loading the Barcodes via a text file.

Creating The Barcode Text File

Information in the text file has the format of barcode:text_under_barcode, one barcode per line.

The Barcode Text File can be created several different ways, which method is best used depends on the quantity of Barcode labels required.

If only a couple of labels are required, the easiest method is to use a text editor like Notepad to manually type the labels required.

If a large number of Barcode Labels using Excel to create the required values for the text file.

  • Selecting the Volumes in TapeMaster and copying values to your clipboard by right clicking the highlighted Volumes and selecting EditCopyUnqualified Volumes.
  • Open Excel and paste Volume-ID's into an Excel spreadsheet column A
  • Add ; to column B and drag cell to auto fill the cells next to column A values
  • Use cell formulas to concatenate the cell values to one column using formula =CONCAT(A1,B1,A1) to create the barcode;barcode format.
  • Copy the concatenated column and paste into a Notepad file, saving under a known name and location.

Opening The Barcode Printer

Open the Barcode Printer via the Windows Start Menu at TapeTrackBarcode Printer

Alternatively, navigate in File Explorer to the TapeTrack TapeMaster installation directory and run the executable TMSSBarcodePrinter.exe.

Loading Barcodes From Text File

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