Labels you design yourself

August 22, 2026

The big one first: labels are no longer laid out for you. Everything else here is about printing too — a place carried two label buttons where one of them started a hundred-label run, printing straight to the printer had never once worked on the largest roll, and the roll list was four sizes long when the printer takes far more than four.

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• New You can now decide what goes on a label and where, with a picture of what will really print.

  You can now decide what goes on a label and where. Pick a roll, then put a QR code, a barcode, a field from the record, your own words, a box, a rule or a picture wherever you want them, at whatever size — drag them around, or type the millimetres if you would rather. A picture of the label as it will actually print sits above what you are editing, drawn by the same thing that prints it, so what you see is what comes out. Save several designs and mark one to be used by default for each kind of label and each roll; anything you have not designed keeps printing exactly as it did. There is more to say about the parts than fits here: text can shrink to fit, be cut with a marker, be cut without one, or run onto another line; a QR code can be set to survive 7%, 15%, 25% or 30% of it being damaged, and higher is not always better, because the extra recovery is bought with a denser pattern that a small label may not have the room for. A barcode says so when you have drawn it too narrow to scan, which is worth knowing before a roll of them comes out unreadable. Print one and look at it before running a batch. Untick “Print this design by default” and labels go straight back to the standard layout.

• New Nine more label rolls to choose from, up to two spine labels 190 mm long.

  Nine more label rolls to choose from, so the list now offers what the printer can actually take rather than the handful the app started with. There are address and shipping sizes, an appointment-card and a badge-card size, a narrow strip for suspension files, and two spine labels 190 mm long — the biggest labels here, and the biggest code any of them prints. Pick one under Label printing in your profile, or on a place, exactly as before. None of them has been printed and checked on paper yet, so each is marked as such where you choose it: print one and look at it before running a batch.

• Improved The button that printed a label for a place and everything under it is gone.

  The page for a place no longer offers Print labels for everything below. It sat right beside Print label in the header, and pressing the wrong one of the two started a run covering that place and every room, shelf, bin and box under it — a hundred labels off the roll from a button meant to print one. Labels are printed from the page of the place they belong to now, one at a time. Everything else about printing is where it was: the Print label button itself, the printer and roll you chose, and the button that prints a label for every serial number of a product standing in one place.

• Fixed Printing straight to a DYMO printer now works on the large 89 × 41 mm roll.

  Printing straight to a DYMO printer now works on the large 89 × 41 mm roll. It never had: the app named that roll to the printing software in a way the software does not recognise, so it turned every label down and the browser print dialog opened instead — which printed the label, so nothing ever looked broken. The name is corrected. Nothing changes for the other rolls, and the extra large 54 × 70 mm roll still goes through the dialog: nothing recognises a name for it, and the dialog prints it correctly.