With label print formats, you define how your product labels are placed on the paper: individually for label printers, on pre-cut label sheets such as Avery Zweckform or HERMA, or as a grid on plain paper that you cut out yourself. What appears on the label and how it is structured, on the other hand, you design in a label template — find out more in How do I design my own templates for product labels?
Which print formats are there?
Single label (roll): One label per page, for label printers with roll or continuous labels. This print format is always available and does not need to be created.
Label sheet: Pre-cut sheets with multiple adhesive labels. The individual die-cut is called a cell and determines the label size.
Free grid: Multiple labels side by side on plain paper. How many labels fit on a page depends on the label size. If you like, cut marks for cutting out the labels are printed as well.
The following print formats are already available:
Label sheets: Avery Zweckform 3474, 3475, 3489, 3651, 3653, 3666, L4736, L7160 and L7163 as well as HERMA 4453
Free grid: DIN A4 with cut marks
Manage print formats
You can find your print formats in the Shopware Admin under Settings → Content → Label print formats. Alternatively, you can get there directly via the Manage print formats link in the Create product labels window or via Manage label sheets in a label template.
The overview shows the name, type and grid of each print format. Via the context menu, you can open, duplicate or delete a print format. You create a new print format via Create label print format.
Create a label sheet
Select Label sheet as the Type and enter a name. Then define the Page format (DIN A4 portrait, DIN A4 landscape or US Letter) and enter the dimensions of your sheet:
Columns and Rows: Number of labels side by side and one below the other
Cell width and Cell height: Size of a single label
Margin left and Margin top: Distance between the first cell and the edge of the sheet
Horizontal gap and Vertical gap: Distance between the cells
You can find the dimensions in the manufacturer's specifications for your sheet. The Page preview shows you right away how the cells are positioned on the page. If your sheet is similar to one of the existing sheets, you can also duplicate it and adjust only the values that differ.
Create a free grid
Select Free grid as the Type, enter a name and define the Page format. Under Page margin, enter the margin that your printer cannot print on — for laser printers, usually 4 to 5 mm. Enable Print cut marks if you want fine lines for cutting to be printed at the corners of the labels.
With the free grid, you do not define columns and rows: How many labels fit on a page is determined at print time by the selected label size.
Print formats that are stored in label templates
A label template can be designed for a specific label sheet. If you open such a sheet, you can see at the top which templates use it. Cell width, Cell height and Type can then no longer be changed. If you need different dimensions, duplicate the sheet and adjust the copy.
If you delete a sheet that is stored in templates, the label sheet of those templates is subsequently set to No sheet, free size. The label size of the templates remains unchanged.
Select a print format when creating product labels
In the Create product labels window, you select in the Paper section via the Print format field how the labels are to be printed.
If you select a Label sheet, Pickware uses the cell size of the sheet as the label size. Width and height can then not be changed separately.
With the Free grid, you define the label size yourself.
If you are using a sheet that has already been partly used, you define under Start position with Start at column and Start at row from which cell printing begins. The cells before it remain empty.
If a label sheet is stored in the selected label template, that sheet is used automatically and cannot be changed in the window.
Before your first print, do a test print on plain paper and set the scaling in the print dialog to 100%. Otherwise, the labels will shift on the sheet.