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 back-end 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 back-end 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\PremisesNodeCell\IBM_WSE_PVS_Console.ear
WAS_PROFILE_HOME/installedApps/PremisesNodeCell/IBM_WSE_PVS_Console.ear
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.