Print location labels

With Picqer you can print location labels with a barcode, so you can scan a location instead of looking it up by hand. This page covers the label size you need, what ends up on the label, and where you print from.

Setting up your printer

Suitable printers

You print location labels on a label printer, the same kind of printer you use for your product labels. We've successfully tested the following printers with Picqer:

• Dymo LabelWriter 550 (Turbo) and its predecessor, the Dymo LabelWriter 450 (Turbo)
• Dymo LabelWriter 5XL and its predecessor, the Dymo LabelWriter 4XL
• Zebra ZD421d and its predecessors, the Zebra ZD420d and GK420d

Label size

We don't have fixed recommended dimensions for location labels. We do recommend a label at least 30mm high. Below that Picqer prints the location name smaller, which makes it harder to read off a rack. Label width is usually somewhere between 40 and 60mm. Wider labels gain you little, because the barcode doesn't keep growing with them.

Make sure you set the right size on your printer in Picqer. Go to Settings > Printers, open your printer and pick 'Custom format' under 'Paper format'. Fill in 'Width' and 'Height' in millimeters below it.

Then set your printer to that same size, otherwise part of the label may be printed outside the sticker. Where you set it depends on your printer and your computer:

• Zebra on Windows: set the size in Zebra Setup Utilities. You'll find the steps under installing a Zebra printer, where we use A6 shipping labels as the example. Enter the size of your location labels under 'Width' and 'Height'.
• Zebra on a Mac and Dymo: open PrintNode, go to the 'Printers' tab and fill in 'Page Width' and 'Page Height' for your printer. Zebra Setup Utilities is only available for Windows, so on a Mac you set the size in PrintNode.

Both PrintNode and Zebra Setup Utilities work in inches. Divide your millimeters by 25.4 to convert. For example: 30mm / 25.4 = 1.18 inch.

Printing on a Dymo and the content comes out rotated 90 degrees on the label? Swap 'Page Width' and 'Page Height' in PrintNode.

Label content

Every location label shows a Code 128 barcode with the name of the location underneath:

The barcode holds that same location name. Scan it in the Picqer app and the location opens straight away. Containers work slightly differently: there Picqer puts a fixed internal code in the barcode, so the label keeps working if you rename the container.

Printing location labels

You can print location labels from three places in Picqer. The print buttons only appear once you've connected your printers to Picqer.

A single location

Go to the location and click 'Print label' in the top right corner. Pick your printer, enter how many labels you want under 'Amount' and click 'Print'.

Every location under a rack

Go to the parent location and scroll down to the 'Direct underlying locations' section. Click 'Print underlying labels' in the top right of that section.

If this location has more than one level below it, use 'Level' to choose what you print: 'Directly underlying locations' for just the level below, or 'All underlying final locations' for everything at the very bottom. Both options show how many labels that comes to.

New locations from the wizard

When you create locations with the location wizard, the 'Print labels for new locations' button appears once it's done. That prints a label for every location you just created, in one go.