What happens if you shorten your code to this:

IF NOT FILE("C:\WHS_PC.ID")
    MESSAGEBOX("Your PC is not set up to print inventory tags", 0, "Print Error")
    RETURN
ENDIF

*** set up the device
SET PRINTER TO NAME "Zebra TLP2844"

*** print the label using the report writer
LABEL FORM 'i:\item_tag.lbx' FOR RPT_NUMB = mRPT_NUMB ;
  NOCONSOLE TO PRINTER PROMPT

RETURN

>Hi all,
>
>I searched the archives and only found one thread concerning this problem. On a form I have a print button to print inventory tags for the receiving report on screen. At the end of the print job I am getting one totally blank label. The *.lbx uses only the detail band.
>
>Here is the code in the print button click event.
>

>PROCEDURE print_tag &&----------------------------------------------
>*** print inventory tags with barcode, client, sidemark, indate, and description
>*** using a Zebra 2844 printer with 4 x 3 inch labels. Windows print drivers
>
>*** only print if this PC has a label printer
>IF NOT FILE("C:\WHS_PC.ID")
>    MESSAGEBOX("Your PC is not set up to print inventory tags", 0, "Print Error")
>    RETURN
>ENDIF
>*** set up the device
>SET PRINTER TO NAME "Zebra TLP2844"
>SET DEVICE TO PRINTER PROMPT
>SET DEVICE TO PRINT
>SET PRINT ON
>SET CONSOLE OFF
>*** print the label using the report writer
>LABEL FORM 'i:\item_tag.lbx' FOR RPT_NUMB = mRPT_NUMB
>SET DEVICE TO SCREEN
>SET PRINT OFF
>SET CONSOLE ON
>SET PRINTER TO
>RETURN
>

>I've made sure that the detail band fits the label (preview tells you so), and that the footer band is tight to the last textbox in the detail. In the IDE I do not get the blank label. Rearranging the various concoctions of 'SET' will give me the blank label at the beginning of the print job.
>
>Any ideas? This is driving me crazy. It wouldn't be so bad if all the print jobs were huge, but many of them are just one item. Too much waste.