Printing

The frame is divided into several areas: Identification, task, inspection, form, external, and miscellaneous printing. You can control the printing of transaction details in each of the areas. These cover the following:

• Printing an identification of inventory coming into the warehouse, such as a pallet label

• Printing exceptions when changes have been made to the original transaction; for example, a change to the put-away location or quantity

See Printing for additional details about print setup.

Each type of printing has a common set of fields that define print-related settings. Only the settings for the identification print fields are described here; settings for the other print events are the same, but you can use different printers or print parameters to accommodate different print tags or locations as needed.

The fields relating to identification printing are as follows:

Enter Yes to print an identification of inventory coming into the warehouse; otherwise, enter No. If you enter No, you can ignore the other fields in this group.

Enter the name of the printer on which the IDs are to be printed.

Enter the number of identifications that are to be printed across each page.

Enter the width in character positions of the lines of the identification.

Enter Yes if the identifications are to be printed in 132 character position mode; otherwise, enter No.

Select a print mode to determine when output should be printed. The options are as follows:


AUTO	The system prints identifications automatically as soon as they are created.
MANUAL	The system holds identification print requests until an online or batch process activates printing.
AUTOSIG	The system prints identifications automatically but holds them until a signal to print is received.

The signal to trigger AUTOSIG printing is normally a sign that the process creating print requests is complete and that all requested prints can be output at one time. This is particularly relevant when, for example, printing multiple transactions on the same task sheet.

Enter Yes if you want RDT users to be able to print the identifications on an external printer such as the local printer in a fork-lift truck. Enter No if the identifications must be printed on the ID printer.

The following group of fields in the Miscellaneous Printing frame covers general print format:

This field defaults to each work location group you set up within the warehouse. Select the Print Flavor code to determine the format of the printed output. Print Flavor codes are set up in Generalized Code Maintenance (36.2.13).

• B. Use a print template. The system lets you create your own templates from ASCII files, described in the next section. See Print Templates.

Indicate whether the sequence in the printed output is sorted by work location group.

If you are using barcode prefixes, update the Manufacturer Code field.

Specify the code that identifies your company’s site. This code is a required component of serial shipping container codes (SSCC) used in some barcode pallet IDs. See Serial Shipping Container Code (SSCC) for details.