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• Speeding up printing to network shared printer

  Article ID: 141 - Updated: Feb 15, 2021 - Products: All products - Version: any - Category: Printing
  

  When printing to a printer that is connected to a remote computer in your LAN, delayed printing can occur. It can take a very long time from starting a print job on your computer to label actually leaving the printer. The network is usually not the problem in this...

• The images print corrupted or TrueType fonts print blurred

  Article ID: 147 - Updated: Jan 22, 2021 - Products: All products - Version: V2019, V2017 - Category: Printing
  

  Your labels print images print with blurred edges or the filled areas are not consistent with black color.

• Defining default printer setting for all users (including network users)

  Article ID: 148 - Updated: Jul 22, 2013 - Products: All products - Version: any - Category: Printing
  

  When the computer is used as the printer server, you want the same printer settings (for example, printing speed, darkness, use of the ribbon, etc.) to be applied to all of the printing users: users from this computer and users that use the shared printers from...

• Sending more labels in one batch (Session print)

  Article ID: 184 - Updated: Jan 25, 2021 - Products: All products - Version: V2019, V2017 - Category: Printing
  

  The goal is to generate the printer-data for all labels in a batch into a single print file. When you apply  all data as one print stream instead of several chunks. and printing is faster. When you use printers that print on sheets of labels (inkjets, lasers),...

• Defining Alphanumeric Counter

  Article ID: 191 - Updated: Jan 29, 2021 - Products: Designer Express,Designer Pro,Designer PowerForms - Version: V5 - Category: Printing
  

  Counters are usually numerical, but you would like to define your counters that use different numeral systems.

• Using printer internal counter

  Article ID: 193 - Updated: Jan 29, 2021 - Products: All products - Version: V5 - Category: Printing
  

  If you use NiceLabel counter, NiceLabel sends data to the printer separately for each label which increases the amount of data sent to the printer and slows down printing. If your thermal printer supports the internal counter (most of them do), define printer...

• Designing Stylized Bar Codes and 2D Codes

  Article ID: 199 - Updated: Jan 25, 2021 - Products: Designer Express,Designer Pro,Designer PowerForms - Version: any - Category: Printing
  

  Stylized bar codes are bar codes with patterns cut out from the bars. Using patterns on your bar code surfaces degrade the readability of symbols. Take care of how big the overlaying pattern you put over your bar codes.  The patterns have a lesser impact on 2D...

• Windows Spooler fails to start with the faulting module name ldaNLM64.dll

  Article ID: 206 - Updated: Feb 1, 2021 - Products: All products - Version: any - Category: Printing
  

  You might experience a situation when you cannot start up NiceLabel, because it reports that no printer drivers are installed in Windows, or NiceLabel does not print any label. NiceLabel depends on the Windows Spooler service to be active and running as an...

• Graphical objects do not print correctly

  Article ID: 246 - Updated: Feb 17, 2021 - Products: All products - Version: any - Category: Printing
  

  The graphical objects on your labels print incorrectly, in wrong sizes, wrong positions, or blurred.

• When printing labels, the error "A call to Windows API CreateDC failed" might appear

  Article ID: 257 - Updated: Feb 10, 2021 - Products: All products - Version: any - Category: Printing
  

  When you try to print label from NiceLabel software, the print action fails and application displays the error message such as: A call to Windows API CreateDC failed The problem might not replicate for every printer. You can print to some printers, but not to...

• Automatically notify Automation Service of newly installed network printer driver

  Article ID: 265 - Updated: Feb 10, 2021 - Products: Automation - Version: V1 - Category: Printing
  

  When the new local printer driver is installed in Windows system, Automation Service is notified about it. The Automation Service can start using the printer driver immediately without the need for a restart. The Automation Service only needs permissions to access...

• Solving problem when printing to printer with non-square pixel resolution

  Article ID: 269 - Updated: Feb 10, 2014 - Products: All products - Version: any - Category: Printing
  

  When you try to print by using a printer driver that use non-square pixel resolutions, Windows may not print correctly. These printers don't have the same resolution in horizontal and vertical direction. The graphical objects in the label will print in the...