Microplate Barcode Labeler User Guide - Agilent Technologies

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Chapter 6: Running a print job
VCode User Guide
4. Replace the plate with the next one in the series and press the green
button.
Repeat this operation for all remaining plates in the series.
Related information
For more information about...
Performing a test print
See...
“About test printing and applying” on
page 99
The location of the green button “Hardware overview” on page 11
Labelling groups of plates with identical labels
Introduction
This topic explains how to set up a batch print job that prints groups of
plates with the same labels.
Example
You may want to label groups of plates in a batch run, where each plate
in the group has the same label. The following example has groups of
three identical plates in an incrementing batch run:
bc0001, bc0001, bc0001, bc0002, bc0002, bc0002, bc0003, bc0003,
bc0003...
When typically labelling a batch of plates, each plate is labelled with a
unique label in sequence, such as:
bc0001, bc0002, bc0003, bc0004, bc0005, bc0006...
If you run the same print job in the typical way three times, the plates
will be labelled like this:
bc0001, bc0002, bc0003, bc0001, bc0002, bc0003, bc0001, bc0002,
bc0003...
This is inconvenient because you will need to shuffle the plates to get
them into the order you want.
The procedure in this topic shows you how to create the desired subsets
of identically labelled plates.
Before you start
This procedure assumes that PlateTag is already open and that one of
the schemas used for the print job uses a data source.
Procedure
To print subsets of identically labelled plates in a batch run:
1. In PlateTag, navigate to Edit > Preferences.
2. Click the Jobs tab.
3. In the Data Sources group box, select Prompt for duplication of
data source entries.