Disk Label Presets
These preferences help to adjust label settings for the KillDisk system globally. Labels may be formatted for any printer, page or label type (device) using KillDisk highly customizable labels' features.
Label preset
Displays and let you select a default Label Preset or create a new one. Add New Label Preset button allows you to create a custom label preset with your own specifications. Delete button deletes the selected label preset
Label title
Allows you to set a title to be printed (in bold) at the top of the labels. It can be company name, batch name or any other descriptors you may consider useful to identify the operation. Static text can be typed in or any dynamic attributes (tags) can be inserted at current cursor's position. Click Insert Name Tag button to insert predefined tag from the drop-down list
Label Area
Label's content for the preset. Static text can be typed in or any dynamic attributes (tags) can be inserted at current cursor's position. Click Insert Name Tag button to insert predefined tag from the drop-down list. Click Clear Pattern button to empty all label's area
Label Attributes
You can use RTF formatting and set Word Wrapping behavior using related check boxes
- Add signature line
- Toggling this "ON" places a line at the bottom of the label for the technician to sign off on upon completion of the wipe
- Add certificate logo
- Includes the logo used in the certificate as a label's watermark background
Label preview
Displays a preview of one label with the current input settings. Refreshes when any adjustments are made to the settings.
Barcode options
Selecting Append barcode check-box will print QR Code or Barcode on the label to be able to be scanned thereafter for third party inventory database
- Barcode data
- String including essential erase parameters to be encoded and transformed to QR Code or Barcode. Static text can be typed in or any dynamic attributes (tags) can be inserted at current cursor's position. Click Insert Name Tag button to insert predefined tag from the drop-down list
- Preview
- Displays a preview of encoded string with the current input settings. Refreshes when any adjustments are made to the settings.
- Format
- List of supported QR Code and Barcode formats. Currently supported: Aztec 2D barcode, Code 39 1D, Code 93 1D, Code 128 1D, QR Code. Note that different types of Barcodes can accept different size of encoded string
- Encoding
- If barcode string contains symbols other than English letters, you can specify encoding (code page) for the particular language
- Error correction level
- The lower the error correction level, the less dense the QR code image is, which improves minimum printing size. The higher the error correction level, the more damage it can sustain before it becomes unreadable
- Size, mm
- Size in millimeters for the Barcode/QR Code to be printed on the label
Print options
Define options for label printing including special label printers (Brother QL-700 etc.):
- Default printer
- Define printer to be used exclusively to print labels from the list of installed printers
- Print output adjustments
- The print output adjustments section of the dialogue allows you to vertically or horizontally displace the position measured in specific print units to adjust to different printers
Print test label command will let you print Disk Label sample to verify your settings and selected layout attributes.
Disk Label Templates
Disk Label Templates tab defines set of predefined label templates for usage with different scenarios.
The print label dialog gives you an access to a number of predefined standard templates and to any custom templates you may create. These templates may be easily selected without opening any additional dialogs. The details of the selected template are displayed below the selection box. If your specific labels differ from any of the templates available the button allows you to create a custom template with your own specifications. Additionally, the button allows you to modify an existing template and the button deletes the selected template.
Print Start Position
The Print Start Position section of the dialogue allows you to select what label on the page is the one to start from. The labels won't always start from the 1x1 position, so you can adjust this setting accordingly
Creating a new template
Upon clicking the button the following Template Editor window appears. Descriptions of the Template Editor options are listed below.
- Template Title
- Here you may create a custom title for your template. This is the name to refer this template when selecting it in the Print Label dialog
- Page
- Here you can specify the dimensions of the page used to print the labels. This may be selected from the list of standard sizes or defined using exact measurements
- Page margins
- Page margins are defined for the top, bottom, left and right sides of the page
- Label Layout
- These settings define how the labels appear on the page. You may define the spacing in between labels on the page and the dimensions of the label grid. Once you've enter the proper measurements KillDisk will take care of the formatting
- Size units
- The units of measurement may vary between millimeters, inches, pixels and points. If a value in entered in one measurement and the unit size is changed the appropriate conversion will take place