1. JDS5 Training Guide

2. On Start Up you will see this screen click the OK button Click OK

3. You will then see the printer setup page Click the Add button

4. Select the printer driver Select you com port Select your RS232 speed Give the Selected printer a name

5. Once done press the OK button

6. The printer driver is now loaded click exit

7. Now click file and new

8. Select the printer you have just loaded and click the OK button

9. You can now enter your label height and width Label Height and ribbon advance normally always match

10. A blank label is now ready to be edited

11. Text Barcodes Graphics Lines Frames Auto Date Auto Time What the Side Buttons do

12. New FileOpen FileSave File Rotate labelDelete labelPrint LabelUndoRedo Cut CopyPast Rotate field by 90 Delete FieldZoom Out Zoom InHelp What the Top Buttons do

13. Fixed text Click the T button and select fixed text

14. Fixed text We can now enter one line Of fixed text

15. Fixed text To change text height And type click this tab

16. Resident fonts 1= News Gothic Bold 2= Swiss Bold 3= Swiss Roman 4= Special (Arial, High speed) True type fonts Can be downloaded to The printer covered later Fixed text Character height Character Map Rotation Negative Image Is the text printed Increase or decrease the Width of text Once you have made the required changes press the OK button

17. A + Place maker is top left of the text Crosshairs for placement on scale Fixed text X Y position

18. You can edit the attributes by double Clicking the text To reposition left click and hold on the text to move Fixed text

19. Now click the T and Variable Field Variable Field

20. Is the text inputted from the PC or Keyboard *Note The Normal option is shown The Field number MUST be changed if You have more than 1 Variable text field Is the title printed For example Title Variable input BN: 123456 Is the Inputted information Numeric or Alphanumeric You can limit The amount of numeric information

21. Once you have made the required changes click the OK button Variable Field

22. Position the Variable text in the Required Position on the label

23. Variable Text Click the T and Select the Variable text option

24. Variable field option is used to set up information from a database We will not be covering this advanced option in this guide. Variable Text

25. Click the T and select Multiple Fields Multiple Field

26. Here you can select the Multiple field number. Multiple field are set up under a different Menu they are used when you need to link fields for use in Barcodes ect. For this example we will use field number 1 click ok Multiple Field

27. For this example please set up another variable field as shown Remember to change the field number to 2

28. Multiple Field The Multiple field will be printed in this position To set the Multiple field click here

29. This is the Multiple Field number we Have chosen These are the Types of fields we can link For this example we will add the two variable fields we have created Multiple Field

30. We have now created the Multiple field, this can now be linked to a barcode Or a printed human readable. We will come back to Multiple Fields when we Look at Barcodes. Numbers of the fields 1= BN 2= LOT

31. Click T and select RS field RS Field

32. RS field allows us to receive information from an RS242 source. This is an advanced option and we will not be covered it in this training.

33. Click the T button and select counter Counter

34. This the title Of you counter This will print the Title I normally have this turned off With the tick In the counter goes up and off it will count down The step of the counter 1=1,2,3,4, 5,6 2=2,4,6,8, 10 The repeat of the counter 1= 1,2,3,4,5 2= 1,1,2,2,3,3 The length of the counter up to 9 digits Same as using Variable fields If you have more than one you must Remember to number them

35. Counter Once you have set your counter up click the OK button

36. Your counter added Counter

37. The Next Option is Audit Code We will not be covering this in the training Audit Code

38. The next option is Common variable Common Variable is information Associated to a specific printer. The information is stored in the printer Rather than the image, it can be used As a line identifier. The information that is printed is set in Setup Menu to be covered later Common Variable

39. Click the T and select Shift Codes Shift Code

40. Enter the Number of required Shifts 1 st shift start Time How long the Each shift is

41. Shift Code An example of a the shift code set up press OK

42. Your Shift Code Shift Code

43. Week Shift Code Press T and click on week shift code

44. Week Shift Code Week shift code works in the same way as shift code but allows you To set a shift up for individual days

45. Your Week Shift Code Week Shift Code

46. Now click on the barcode option Barcodes

47. The supported Barcodes are listed here The types of fields that can be linked to barcodes These options control How the barcode is displayed

48. Barcodes For this example we are going to link a datamatrix to the Multiple field we Created earlier, click OK

49. The datamatrix will be populated By the Lot and BN number Barcodes

50. The Next option allows you to add graphics Click the Icon Graphics

51. Supported Types are BMP,JPG,GIF,PNG Graphics

52. Your Graphic added

53. This Option allows you to add lines Lines

54. If you double click the line you Can change its thickness Lines

55. The line thickness is in point size

56. Lines

57. The next option is frames this allows you to Put boxes in to the label Frames

58. You will need to click and drag to create the frame Frames

59. Your frame created Frames

60. You can also change the line thickness by double clicking the frame And changing the point size Frames

62. Date The Next option is automatic dates

63. Dates Date field format can be generated with the options shown You can set up exp dates with the add options

64. Dates Above is an example set to print today's date in the following Format; 25-12-12 click the OK button

65. Dates Your date shown here.

66. Time The Next Option is Time

67. Here you can set a time format in 12 or 24 hour clocks Time

68. An example of the time set up in the 24 hour format 23:00

69. Your Time example is shown here Time

70. The label is now ready to be printed Connect the PC to the printer Via A RS232 cable and click the print button Printing

71. The following screen will appear you can change and variable information In the label

72. Printing Check the printer is connected by pressing View machine status Once you are happy that the variable information is correct then press the OK button

73. Printing The printer will load and display the following message on the PR5

74. Click the Setup button Making changes to the printer setup

75. Select the printer you wish to make changes to and click the printer setup Making changes to the printer setup

76. The software will communicate with the printer and populate the setup screen Making changes to the printer setup You can change all of the printer settings from this page

77. The next option is Common Variables Making changes to the printer setup

78. Here we can tell the printer what to print when using the common variable option In the label, an example would be a line number We can also set our Seven day batch option and the time offset Making changes to the printer setup

79. The next option is download fonts This option allows you to download a True Type font to the printer so it can print as a Printer resident font Making changes to the printer setup

80. You can search through all the fonts installed on your PC Making changes to the printer setup

81. I have selected High Tower and pressed the send key. The process can take up to 5 mins Making changes to the printer setup

82. For an example we will create an Auto date and change the font Making changes to the printer setup

83. Select the TT font we have just downloaded and set the height Making changes to the printer setup

84. The time will now update with the new font Making changes to the printer setup

85. The last option to look at is the Online utilities Making changes to the printer setup

86. This screen allows to read back information when the printer is running You can also stop the printer at any point Making changes to the printer setup

87. When the printer is stopped you can load any labels that are stored in the printer Making changes to the printer setup

88. This concludes our introduction to the label design software. For good practice I would like you to open a new label file and generate the following fields Variable field called GTIN Variable field called LOT Variable Field called EXP Time Field Date field with a 10 day offset Import a graphic of your choice Once you have inputted this information we will generate a GS1 2d Datamatrix The Test………

89. Your label should look something like this, the next task is to create A multiple field linking the variable fields with identifiers

90. Your Multiple field should look like this Click Ok

91. Now set up a barcode up as shown

92. You have now set up a GS1 datamatrix

93. We can now send are label to the printer, this can be done in two ways RS232 or USB key To copy a file to the USB key follow the next few slides

94. Click file then save as

95. Save the file in a folder that is relevant to you

96. Now insert your USB key in to the computer and create a folder called IMPPRX

97. Copy your test file to the folder

98. You are now ready to transfer the file to the printer Eject the USB key

99. Connect the USB key to the PR5 PR5 Handset USB Drive

100. When connected the message below is briefly displayed

101. To access the images on the USB drive, press the down arrow until “USB pendrive” is highlighted & press the “Enter” key

102. To transfer images from the USB drive in to the printer memory the “Export” command is used. Select it using the arrow keys & press “Enter”

103. There are now three choices, to transfer a single image use the “Image” option. Press enter & the images on the USB are displayed

104. Select the image to transfer & press “Enter” The selected image will then be duplicated in the printer memory.

105. Now load the image from print on the main menu

106. Last tip: remember to change your label height and ribbon advance for smaller labels Go to file> label parameters

108. Thank you for you attention. Any Questions?