After you install the Print, Verify, and Ship Reference User Interface and
configure your tag printer, you can begin printing tag labels.
The Print, Verify, and Ship application
supports two kinds of environments for printing: integrated and nonintegrated.
Printing in an integrated environment
In an integrated
environment, your backend enterprise database is connected to the Print, Verify, and Ship Reference User Interface to
allow the purchase order and catalog information from your enterprise system
to display in the application. Follow this process to print tag labels:
- Set up the print job - in an integrated environment, select a purchase
order and customer profile before selecting the products. See Setting up the print job for more information.
- Select products - select the products for which you want to print
tag labels. There are three methods. See Selecting products from a purchase order or catalog, Searching for products, or Scanning or entering GID codes for more information.
- Select a printer - determine the tag printer to which you are sending
the print job. See Printing tag labels for
more information.
- Print the tag labels - when the correct information is loaded,
click the Submit button from the Print Labels panel.
See Printing tag labels for more information.
Printing in a nonintegrated environment
In a nonintegrated
environment, there is no backend database connected to the Print, Verify, and Ship Reference User Interface.
In this scenario, only the non-item pack types section on the Select tab
is applicable. The Search tab is disabled, but you
can still enter case or container tags on the Enter tab.
You must still select a customer profile and enter the purchase order on the Setup tab.
You must also enter the shipping information.
For example, you might
do the following:
- Set up the print job - select a customer profile and enter a purchase
order from the Setup tab. See Setting up the print job for more information.
- Select products - select a non-item pack type to print a container
tag label for a heterogeneous container. See Selecting products from a purchase order or catalog to
select non-item pack types.
- Scan or enter products - scan your product codes on the Enter tab
using a reader or enter the GID codes manually to print a case or container
tag label for those products. See Scanning or entering GID codes for
more information.
- Print the tag labels - when the correct information is loaded,
click the Submit button from the Print Labels panel.
See Printing tag labels for more information.
Note: In a non-integrated environment, make sure that the
enterprise.data.interface attribute
in the
pvsapp.properties file is blank. The file is located
in this directory:
WAS_PROFILE_HOME\installedApps\node_name\IBM_Premises_PVS_Console.ear\ibmrfid_premises_pvsapp.war\config
WAS_PROFILE_HOME/installedApps/node_name/IBM_Premises_PVS_Console.ear/ibmrfid_premises_pvsapp.war/config
If you plan to verify items, you must print at
least one case tag label and one container tag label, and this requirement
can span multiple print jobs. For example, you might print all of your case
tag labels for a particular shipment, and then print the container tag labels
at a later time.