How You Print Labels

The Print Product Label feature enables you to print product labels during production execution. Users can print product labels during the production process when reviewing work orders, reviewing the dispatch list, and reporting operation transactions.

The product label is printed in the following ways:

Select the work order in the Manage Work Orders page, and click the Print Label action in the Print to PDF Table menu.
Select the work order serials in the Serial tab of the Work Order page, and click the Print Label action in the table Actions menu.
Select the work order operation in the Review Dispatch List page, and click the Print Label action in the table Actions menu.
Select the work order operation in the Manage Supplier Operations page, and click the Print Label action in the table Actions menu.
While reporting operation transactions, select the Print Label check box in the Product Details page.
While reporting output items, select the Print Label check box.

The product label printing is determined by the selection of the Print product labels using external applications plant parameter:

If the Print product labels using external applications is unchecked, the labels will be printed in native PDF rendering. The label content is generated in .pdf format based on the template layout specified in the Default Label Layout Template plant parameter. If a template isn't specified at the plant level, the template specified in the report definition of the BI publisher configuration is used for all plants. The .pdf format is automatically downloaded to the browser, and you can print the document on a local printer. As part of the predefined product label template, label content for the product such as item number, item description, work order number, and quantity are printed. For serialization enabled operations, product serial numbers are also printed. The label template can be modified to include additional attributes from item definition, work order, operation transaction, serial number, and lot number.

Note: The operation transaction attributes are included in the label content only when the label is printed when reporting operation transactions.
If the Print product labels using external applications is checked, native printing functionality into PDF is suppressed and a print product label business event is generated. External printing applications can listen to the business event to generate labels externally