RecTrac 10.1 Reference Guide

Reference Guide RecTrac 10.1
Default Label Information + Price Option Then Use A:
Ticket ID and Description None 2 line label template
Ticket ID and Description Next To 2 line label template
Ticket ID and Description Above 3 line label template
2 If you plan to print your ticket labels on a dot matrix printer, there are no prior setup steps.
Creating the Labels:
1 Go to Reports → POS → Inventory/Ticket Labels. Select Ticket as the Item Option.
2 Pick and choose among the selection criteria to get a very small sub-population for test printing. Choose whether
you want to print price on the labels. Choose whether you'll be printing Laser or Matrix labels. If Matrix labels,
complete the other fields as needed, and press F1 if you need field level Help.
3 Click Print to print a test sheet of labels. Print it on plain paper and hold it up to the label stock to see how close it
aligns. You may need to adjust the label margins, page size or font (here or in Laser Label Template File
Maintenance - see Step 1).
4 When you have made all necessary adjustments to produce a perfect test label, return to the selection criteria to
get the whole selection that you want. When you are satisfied with the range selected, click Print.
5 When you print, a file called ZZZ.LBL (where ZZZ stands for your 3 character user ID) will be saved to your
Export Location, as defined in Security File Maintenance - P'Loc Screen 5 of 6. If your printer malfunctions during
the actual printing, you can re-print this file using conventional DOS or Windows print commands.
Dot matrix label output will print to your default Label Printer, as defined in Security File
Maintenance - Devices Screen 3 of 6. Remember to load your label stock into the printer
before this final step. All dot matrix bar code labels will print "one up."
Laser label output will require that you select a Laser Label Template (see Step 1), and also
choose a laser printer from the printer ID picklist. Remember to load your label stock into the
printer before this final step.
Printing Bar Coded Transaction (Tran) Codes
At a Point of Sale workstation, you may wish to have a sheet of bar codes for each of your
miscellaneous tran codes in order to save input time on the POS screen. Here's how to print
those tran code bar codes.
Setup:
1 If you plan to print your tran code bar codes on laser labels, then you must first setup a laser label template. In
(Files - System - Other - ) Laser Label Template Maintenance: Add or edit the ID or PASS templates found on
the Label Maintenance browser. The templates are pre-defined to fit on Avery 5160 or 5267 label sizes. Be sure
that any tran code bar code template you add is coded with Type = Bar Code Label. The number of print lines will
always be 1 and pitch is unimportant as the only thing that will be bar coded is the tran code number.
Bar Code Printing:
1 Whenever you wish to print, go to (Reports - System -) Bar Code Print. If you are printing for a defined tran code
or range of tran codes, enter it in the 'Code Range' fields. Specify T/C in the 'Code Option' field. After you select
the 'Processing' and 'Length' options, specify the other criteria for bar code printing. Press F1 for specific field
level Help.
2 If you've chosen Laser label printing, when you click Print, you will advance to the RecTrac Laser Label
Spooler screen. Here, you need to pick a laser label template from the Laser Template Picklist.
3 When you click Print again, choose the appropriate printer to print the bar codes on.
4 The default settings for these screens are saved from the last time the screens were used. Since pass and bar
code printing are fairly picky endeavors, once you find your most successful settings, copy them down to use
each time. Jot down the Print screen settings as well as the template and Printer(s) you selected.
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