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Ideas Genie Pro => The Labels program GA048 => Topic started by: ideasguy on April 02, 2010, 04:25:32 PM
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If you are using the labels program, please let me know if you have sourced a label stock which needs a new label design.
If you'd like any new features, again please discuss here.
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hows about the option to print out on standard 6 x 4 photo paper
(http://i148.photobucket.com/albums/s19/roiphil/IG%20Pro/Scan.jpg)
i think some people would find this a good addition to the label program it could be use on your stalls to show what the plant looks like in flower and the description down the side
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George:
I?m now generating quite a few of my labels that I adhere to potstics that I use for identifying
my vegetable and flower starts.
I?m using US#6577, 2x16=32 labels. It works great! The existing layout for that label
lets me use up to 3 lines of Data Text.
Which gives me a label that looks like this:
Text Area Text Area Text Area Text Area
Text Area Text Area Text Area Text Area
Text Area Text Area Text Area Text Area
When I generate these labels I would like to add to the text area as the last item,
the date I SOWED the seeds. This would change the above sample to then read:
Text Area Text Area Text Area Text Area
Text Area Text Area Text Area Text Area
Text Area Text Area Text Area 04/02/2010
I would like to be able to turn this feature on or off as needed, and be able to automatically
put in today?s date, or any date I wish. The date generated, would then be repeated
on all labels in that one batch (or one sheet), or the option of choosing which labels would
be so marked in that batch. Might be a good idea to be able to position the date any place
one might want it. This would be similar to the right hand ?footer? that you might print out on
a word processing document. Might even be suitable to use on all label layouts.
Is this workable?
- Toby
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Phil:
Play around with Orion 311-54LC.
This is a US one that George didn't get a chance to finish, and it is in RichText.
Suggest you keep track of changes you would want to make, and let George know.
- Toby
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Phil:
Play around with Orion 311-54LC.
This is a US one that George didn't get a chance to finish, and it is in RichText.
Suggest you keep track of changes you would want to make, and let George know.
- Toby
ta will have play over week end is Orion 311-54LC about the same size as photopaper 6x4 inches
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Phil:
It is actually 4"x5", 2 up, making a sheet size of 5"x8".
It is designed to fit some metal sign holders from Orion Co.
It fits their sign holder #310-54. It looks like they might have done
some changes but it will still give you some ideas.
http://www.gardenmarker.com/
- Toby
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Will look at this on Tuesday guys- I'm off for an Easter break.
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Here?s another label that I would like to have a layout for:
This is to be printed on Avery #6570 which is the same series of labels as the Avery #6577,
so I know the label stock is good and lasts. The label measures 1-1/4? top to bottom and
1-3/4? left to right. There are 4 vertical columns and 8 horizontal rows down. 32 on the
sheet. Avery has a template for it, also numbered #6570. I have a plastic potstic
approximately 1-1/4?x 2? to mount this label on, that has a 3-1/2? point on it.
We will number the vertical columns #1-#4, and the horizontal rows #1-#8, in row 1 on the
first label that we will call #1-1. I want to place a photo of a plant, and below that photo I
want to place text for identification of that same plant. The next label immediately to the
right, which we will identify as #1-2, I want to place text only for that same plant.
Using the same identification system, we will call the next label to the right of #1-2, as #1-3.
In #1-3 we will repeat the same process outlined above and print another photo of a different
plant, then in #1-4 we will print text for that same plant as created in #1-3.
We will repeat that process in all the horizontal rows as we go downward. We now have
sheet of labels that is arranged as such:
Photo/Text ? Photo/Text
Photo/Text ? Photo/Text
Photo/Text ? Photo/Text
Photo/Text ? Photo/Text
Photo/Text ? Photo/Text
Photo/Text ? Photo/Text
Photo/Text ? Photo/Text
Photo/Text ? Photo/Text
We have now created sets of labels in 2?s that are related to each other.
I will place the photo label on the front of that potstic, and the related text label on the
back. I have now constructed a double sided label for identifying my plants whether they
be in trays, pots or in the garden. Is it workable?
- Toby
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George:
Hopefully for you, this will be my last request for some re-work for GA048 LABELS
for Vegetable Project Session 11.
Under the Forum topic ?Got down-time? Do plant labels/markers now?. Reply #12,
Feb. 15, 2008, JohnB posted his answers to some Label Questions that I had asked
prior, in this same Topic.
#1 is printed below:
1. You indicate you only mark shrubs and trees, would you consider labeling the
rest of your garden(s)?
With most of the perennials, I've inserted their nursery tag either close in to
the crown so it disappears under the foliage or mulch - or in the raised beds,
I've put these tags down behind the retaining wall or bricks so it's right in
front of you as you look into the bed (one can simply pull them up to look
at them). I've done it this way so that the planting bed doesn't look like a
"bird cemetary" (i.e. lots of little white headstones!).
I think John has made valid points in his answer to my question, and I would like
to see us be able to add a background color when making labels.
To illustrate let?s take US Orion 400-175 which is a 1-3/4?x4? label, on the right side
is a photo 1?x1?. The left side of the label is reserved for text and the area measures
approx. 1?x2?, above all there is one line of text.
Can a background of some color that will blend in with garden surroundings,
as perhaps light tan or light green, which can be placed behind the text, but leave
the area reserved for the photo in the white label background, so that the plant
photo reproduces as accurately as possible.
Hopefully, this would then end the problem with the ?bird cemetery? as John calls it.
In the vegetable garden it?s nice to have all those white markers, so that you can spot
them easily behind and in between the veggies. But for the ornamental gardens, they
stand out ?like a sore thumb?.
Have you got some ?tricks? in your bag, that can accomplish this?
Thanks for considering.
- Toby
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Have you got some ?tricks? in your bag, that can accomplish this?
Yes
Basically, it would be a rectangle the size of the labels, with a fill colour.
However, it adds complexity to creating labels - a) more buttons etc, b) the user would have to be given the option to be able to choose background colour.
There would also be an overhead in a drain of your printers ink to paint the entire label.
Now Ive explained that, how many members would use that feature, if provided?
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On the basis of extra ink being used, I would not want to have a background colour printing out. If you've got a lot of plants that would use a lot of ink and become very expensive.
The best of both worlds would be a user choice to print a background colour or not. It depends on the programming needed to offer that choice. Simple is best.
Laurie.
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RE:
I will place the photo label on the front of that potstic, and the related text label on the back.
I can create labels which have Front and Back
Print front in one pass (Photo+optional text) , print back in a second pass (text).
Option a)
The second pass can be on the same sheet - in which case you have a label with printing front and back.
The software takes care of the "flip" so the correct back is printed on the rear of the correct front.
Option b) The second pass can be on a second sheet.
Would one of those options do your job better?
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I agree with Laurie.
Malcolm
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I agree with Laurie.
Malcolm
me too, ink is dear enough as it is ::)
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RE: (Toby)
Play around with Orion 311-54LC.
This is a US one that George didn't get a chance to finish, and it is in RichText.
This label is actually completed Toby.
Its a Rich Text label, discussed in this topic:
http://www.flowergenie.co.uk/ideas/forum/index.php/topic,1095.0.html
I'm now using that as a demo for the Session on Labels for the Vegetables Project:
http://www.ideasgenie.co.uk/Vegetables/
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How's everyone doing with the labels programme, it's working very well for me, thanks to George's hard work.
Paul. ;D