I have googled it with all the phrasing variations I can think of and wasn't able to find anything out there. I'm sure it exists but I guess I am phrasing my question wrong... Based on your suggestion I got a 30 day trial of Bartender, and created an access database with SQL pass-through queries for the data I need... So I now have a new question, I am able to specify the # of labels I print based on a database field which is great. I can calculate the number of boxes I'll have for each line item. My issue is that on these specific labels I am printing the customer's part # for that line item on each label. An example order might look like this: Line Item 1: Customer part # ABC - 20 boxes Line Item 2: Customer part # XYZ - 10 boxes So I want to print 30 labels, the first 20 of which have line item 1's customer part number of ABC and the remaining 10 would have line item 2's customer part number of XYZ. My initial thought was to specify in the access database or within bartender to look at line item 1 and print the 20 boxes, then create a second label format which would be identical except that it would look at line item 2 and print the 10 boxes. Then I could use the Batch Maker to print both print jobs. I am totally new to Bartender and this approach seems messy to me, especially considering that for this customer I could have anywhere between 1 to 15 line items on an order. My reasoning for needing to accomplish this: We are currently printing these labels out of Starship which uses packaging scenarios and calculates the amount of boxes we need, so the method works but it means that the person responsible for printing these labels has to go into every individual order, wait for the order to load, then print the labels. On top of that because Starship creates an individual print job for each label it prints the labels print very slowly. So if you print 100 labels you have 100 individual print jobs which print slowly even on our Zebra label printer which has the capability to print very fast. So on top of load time to pull the orders in to Starship we are also tying up an important production label printer. On a busy day we may have 30 orders for this customer which is can add up to 1000's of labels, especially when some products take multiple labels per box.
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