Special Document Content Adaptions to variable Media

Pre-cut media use cases

To remember: when a label printer uses fixed sized labels, everything behaves as decribed in default print adaptions and manual print adaptions.

Printing a landscape label document on a landscape label is straight forward

Printing a landscape label document on a portrait label with (auto) rotation

Continuous media use cases

But some behaviours need a correction, if a variable sized label (or continuous label) is in use. A variable sized label hasn't a fixed length and/or width. The printer instead is able to cut the print medium at nearly every position.

Since there is no limit in at least one print medium direction, there is no way to provide an exact medium size for a word processor. Due to the cut capability, the document's size itself defines the medium's size instead.

Note

But all word processors I know cannot deal with such variable media. Thus, we need a different way to create PDFs covering the real size we intend to use.

The uses cases below show how to deal with different continuous labels.

Portrait Target

Portrait document and continuous portrait medium

• orientation-requested = 3 (e.g. portrait)
• align-top

Landscape document and continuous portrait medium

• orientation-requested = 3 (e.g. portrait)
• align-top

Landscape Target

Landscape document and continuous landscape medium

• orientation-requested = 4 (e.g. landscape)
• align-top

Portrait document and continuous landscape medium

• orientation-requested = 5 (e.g. seascape)
• align-top