SB Link Printer Setup

[Nat Wheatley]

In the SB LInk how do I permanently assign a printer to print labels? Each time I open the program it comes up the default printer for the computer to print them. I change it each time, but the changes don't stick.

Thanks

[Donald Thomson]

Hi Nat,

I struggled with this as SBLink does not behave like a normal Windows application. I found out you need to setup the printer in the Windows printer setup routine. Then SBLink will recognize it.

[Nat Wheatley]

I've got it set up and working, I just have to manually select that printer each time I open the Link. Wondering how I save it's automatically selected when I want to print labels.

[Nat Wheatley]

Anyone? It can be done, I had it setup correctly on my old computer, but have just replaced it.

[Nat Wheatley]

Does anyone know how to do this (Thermwood?) There's 9 keystrokes involved in manually selecting the printer and printing labels...

[Ralph Balanik]

Is your printer that you are trying to use set up as the default printer in the devices printers setting in control panel on the computer that you are using? I have had this happen to me because I use different printers and the default gets changed on occasion ands it is not my fault

[Nat Wheatley]

I've got PDF factory setup as my default printer, because I believe if I setup the Dymo printer as default, then the extra steps would just switch over to printing the sheet layouts when I went to print those.

[Ralph Balanik]

I checked it out. I created a nest and then selected print on th SB link. When the print screen came up I had the option of printing sheets or printing labels. I chose print labels and another pop up box presented and gave me the option to print to print the report to a window, to export, or to print to a printer. I chose printer and in printer options I chose the printer to print my labels. I only nested a couple of parts, so I hit the print button and my label printer which I chose, printed the labels. I closed out and then checked to see if when I chose print sheets that I had an appropriate printer. I use an epson as the default printer for documents and that was the correct printer for sheets.
I then closed the link, reopened it, and then created a new nest. I chose print and my label printer was still the default for labels and my document printer was the default for sheets.

[Nat Wheatley]

Those are the steps I'm following too, but it's not remembering the printer I'm choosing to print the labels for some reason.

[Ralph Balanik]

What version of the link are you using ? Did you have to reinstall a bunch of stuff or were you fortunate enough to setup before your old system crashed?

[Nat Wheatley]

Should be the most recent version, but I'll check in the morning. I do still have the old control computer, so may take a look on there to see how things were setup. Thanks

[Nat Wheatley]

Most recent version of the Link is installed so not clear why it's not remembering my printer selection.

[Ralph Balanik]

For the past month I have done nothing but overcome computer issues. Since you have just put a new computer into your system is there any thing new in terms of the preinstalled programs that might be interfering? There are a lot of programs that automatically update and they can have an effect on how certain programs work (or Don't). There is a beta version of the link 1.0.21 Beta 1 in case you are unaware though I am not sure that it will resolve printer issues. To the best of my knowledge that is the most current version but you need to contact the folks at Thermwood for a link to the link I am kinda grasping at straws here in an effort to help so I am sorry if I haven't anything worth while, I do understand the frustration.

[Nat Wheatley]

Thanks very much. I'm going to hook up my old control computer later on today (hopefully) and take a look at how things are setup there.