Print adhesive label after saving PDF

Any help on this would be greatly appreciated!!

I have PC-DMIS set up to save the report PDF and Excel to a folder.

I then want to automatically print a small adhesive label (with inspector, job number, etc) to go on a tag that gets tied to the part.

The job number, etc. come from trace fields and variables used for the report, so I have the info in the program already - I'm struggling with how to get it onto a label.

I've managed to get PC-DMIS to create an excel CSV file with these details, but an operator would have to open the label printer software click on a couple of things to import the CSV and get the label.
I need this to be automated.

I think part of it would include getting PC-DMIS to change to a different printer within a part-program...

Does anyone else do something like this?

vpt.se over 1 year ago

You could always drop the tracefield information to a normal textfile and then open that in your labelling software?
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Cris_C over 1 year ago

I don't know much about it worked, but I once worked at a place that had their network set up with a print server to handling all the printers. That print server was configured in a way that I could copy text files directly into the print que. On the network it just appeared as a folder I could write to. There was no control over the print settings, fonts, or text sizes. Everything was just printed with the default settings like an old dot matrix printer. It worked for my needs. You might be able to do something similar with your label printer.
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