>>>I have a client that wants to print labels one at a time. So he's going to look for a dedicated label printer. One that prints using a roll of sticky labels instead of the laser printing sheets. I guess they use them at UPS & the post office. Has anyone ever worked with one of these before? Can you recommend one? I assume I can create a custom label in VFP for one label at a time.
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>>>TIA,
>>>Mike
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>>Zebra has several low-cost desktop label printers that handle several different label sizes. In VFP, you may not want to use the Report Writer since the printers have their own programming language to do things like print barcodes, rotate text, inverse text, print multiple copies, etc...
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>Thanks, I'll take a look at Zebra. I'm going to have to use VFP because the project is already written. Scope Creep...

VFP will work just fine. It's just that you have more control if you print to a text file using ?,?? or ??? and the Zebra Programming Language then copy the text file to the label printer. Here's an example of what I use in VFP:

? "N" && clear image buffer
? "R4,0" && set left margin
? "D15" && set printer density
? 'A90,0,0,3,1,1,N,"'+TRIM(ITEMNBR)+'"' && print item #
? 'B0,90,0,3,2,4,60,N,"'+TRIM(BARCODE)+'"' && print bar code

The numbers after the A and B on the item # and bar code line control horizontal and vertical print spacing and font size.