Label printing with Filemaker

You need to set up a Report in the Label format. Filemaker already has all the templates for the Avery label sheets, but it may also have templates for a continuous label printer.

You're welcome Bob! 🙂

I'm jealous! When I go to print to my Brother QL-570 from FileMaker Pro 9, the print job gets "stopped" in the print queue. I've tried everything from margin settings in the layout, creating a custom size page in Page Setup, changing the orientation from landscape to portrait. I've even changed the layout from 2.90 by 8.89 cm to 8.89 by 2.90 cm and rotated the fields and printed in landscape mode. There's just way too many variables. Are my margins too small? What's going on? Is it FileMaker? Is the printer? I've clicked on the Utility icon in the Brother's print menu and it says: The roll size in incorrect. Media Size: 1-1/7" x 3-1/2" Description: The status after the last printing operation is displayed. (This may differ from the current printer status.) Note: the inches dimensions here convert to 2.90 x 8.89 cm.

Why can't I just print a simple label from FileMaker? I think I need a step by step procedure to ensure I haven't missed anything.

I have exactly the same problem with Filemaker 7 and OSX 10.4. on a old Imac. There is no way to print a label from roll size 50 mm and the length 100 mm. In the print menu it says: The roll size is incorrect. The only way is to choose 50 mm without costum size, but it prints only a length of 70 mm.
Brother Germany says they cannot give support for this problem (Filemaker?).
Purchasing this product I didn't think to have such a trouble without any help.

Brother is extremely annoying and there's no support.

However sometimes :-(( I get it working like this:
- I use the P-Touch editor first. There is a command there "Check media" which gets the correct roll setting from the printer (context box if xou click on "paper").
- Then I test print from the P-Touch editor.
- When this works I create exactly the same paper settings in FMP and print manually.
- When this works I start printing from a script.

I got it working for the DK-22205 but I'm still struggling with the DK-11209 which a client wants.

I just can't get it working with the DK-11209 labels. Is there anybody who got it working?

For my Brother QL-570 mentioned above, I've decided to go with reliable but less atrractive route. I created a file in P-Touch editor and wrote an AppleScript to open that file from within a FileMaker script. In that FileMaker script, there is a script step that copies the required information for the label, along with commas and carriage returns, into the Clipboard. Once that data is in the clipboard, the AppleScript is executed to open that P-Touch Editor file. I then 1) click in the text box 2) paste from the Clipboard and then 3) Select Print. Of course, I created a button in FileMaker for the appropriate layouts. So after, that there are only 2 or three more user-required executions to do it, but it works. Not as simple as FileMkaer would be expected to do, but oh well.

I'm seriously thinking of getting rid of this label and go with the Dynamo.