This chapter is an introduction to the world of Templates and Wizards, where Loftware’s pre-designed label templates are used to create production printing labels in less time and with less potential errors. If you are like most users, you routinely produce customized labels for production printing. This means that you are creating your own unique labels with bar code, text, lines, boxes and graphics. This chapter contains information on pre-designed templates, or creating custom templates using methods discussed in the previous chapters on design.
Loftware has many templates to choose from, including a template for the 1724-A label for General Motors Suppliers, as well as a wizard that creates the complex PDF-417 bar code that accompanies this label. This chapter explains exactly how to customize your labels, how to open a template, and how to use some of Loftware’s Wizards, specifically the new UCC Bar Code Wizard, and the General Motors (GM), the UCC Code 128 and the UPN Healthcare Bar Code Wizards. The wizards help you to create a custom formula that becomes a part of the bar code, helping you to comply with labeling standards the world over, as well as saving you time and effort. Using a template and a wizard together makes production label printing a far easier task than it has ever been!