I use the label setup a lot, as a large part of my business is digitally printing die cut (or more precisely, kiss-cut) labels. I have more than 70 user defined layouts. Printing digitally, of course, it is always more cost effective to print on larger sheets, so I want to start printing labels on larger sheets (11x17 or 12x18) as the click charge is the same regardless of the sheet size.
My problem is, it seems the labels can only be designed on 8.5 x 11 sheets. I cannot find a way to setup a larger sheet. Does anyone know of a way to change the sheet size on user-defined labels? Is there perhaps a macro that can work around this apparent limitation?
I realize I can achieve some of the same effect with imposition layouts, but I cannot fine tune positioning this way to ensure my print lines up with the pre-cut label sheets.
Any advice or help would be greatly appreciated.
Hello john; you can make custom size pages and templates in CorelDRAW and save them. In the screen shot below the Navitor is one that I made for business cards.
George
Thanks George, but when you are making labels, the document size is the size of the label. You use the "Customize Label" dialogue box to then arrange the labels on the sheet to match the configuration of the labels on a pre-made sheet, The problem is that sheet seems to only work on an 8.5 x 11.
Hello johnny; Why not just make a page the size you want and the labels also. I think what you are seeing are pre made temp. for store bought labels, I never seen label come on other size sheets.
There are pre-made label templates in the CorelDraw library for A4 and possibly also other sizes. But on a quick test, although there is a method for customising a label layout, it is not very obvious how you can set one up from scratch and the customisation seems to be limited to changing the label layout -- the sheet size remains fixed. The help file is also silent on how to set one up from scratch.
The alternative is to use an imposition layout. With this, you make the design page the size of the label and either select or define an imposition layout in the print dialogue. The two are very similar in concept, except that the imposition layout readily supports custom page sizes.
I would have to agree with Harry that using Corel's imposition facility is the best way to approach custom label layouts. I remember raising the concern that Draw had a problem saving metric label page sizes in a post in a previous edition (probably around version 12) and I don't think anything has changed in the interim.. but maybe the problem is with custom sizes in general.
Using the imposition approach gives you total freedom with regard to page size and layout. It also allows the use of many pre-formatted label shapes and arrangements pre-cut for both the offset and digital world. For example, if you have a box of 5-sided star shaped lables, you simply create the star shape to size, print preview, set up the print page size, and specify the numbers across and down the page, taking care to also specify the gutters between the labels. I haven't used the inbuilt label formats for years.