Editing Labels

[SMute]

Hi all,

Id love to be able to save a print job and then go in and edit the labels/date codes for subsequent runs of the same job. There are probably others who would find this feature useful as well.

[verdugod]

Thanks so much for sharing @SMute, great idea for production runs! We’ve passed this onto our R+D team.

Best,
Diana

[SMute]

Awesome thanks!

[Davidwedge]

yeah - i just complained about a similar scenario…

The ability to have production jobs show differently would (in my opinion) be a unique product advantage…
I think the GUI should be more ‘iphone’ and less DOS.

• Production items should be capable of being stored in a production-only sub folder
• Production/repeat prints shouldn’t duplicate on the list, but gain a count feature (or a drop-down with data such as dates and qty of prints)
• a general sorting option would be very handy…

Form4 display - I can't see the top line!

Is it just me, or is it really super-annoying to have that (mostly useless) visual reminder pop up on the display when it’s time to duplicate a print? [image] [image] Seems to me this is a small enough screen - these ‘alerts’ should be either removable (ie., in settings give me the option of removing the ‘starter’ level alerts), or they should be on a 2 second timer, so they don’t waste space. really annoying to have them plastered on the screen while i’m trying to scroll thru previous pro…

[verdugod]

We hear you @Davidwedge, thanks for the helpful production suggestions. Just passed this along to our R+D team!

[verdugod]

Hi @Davidwedge as a follow-up here, as we discuss with our Software team - do you envision these features in Dashboard, PreForm, and/or the Printer Touchscreen?

[br4n_d0n]

I would say it really depends on how one goes about doing a print job in their workflow.

@verdugod I would suggest creating a poll to see which print method is mostly used for repetitive jobs.

[br4n_d0n]

I wasn’t aware I could create a poll myself so I went ahead and created one for you @verdugod.

Best Place To Edit A Label

• Dashboard
• PreForm
• Printer Screen

[verdugod]

Ha, nice work @br4n_d0n, thanks - don’t forget to cast your vote too!

[br4n_d0n]

I did indeed forget to vote; thanks for reminding me.

[Davidwedge]

My personal pref would be based on my workflow, which is 75-80% production, and 20-25% prototyping…

In this use case, it is most helpful to have on the printer screen, and I couldn’t care less about PreForm or the Dashboard.

For production work (ie., repetitive use of the same file for repeated prints), it’s helpful to NOT have numerous iterations on a small screen.. might be better to have them fully separated (by date) on preform or the dashboard…

[verdugod]

Thanks for clarifying @Davidwedge, I can understand how that could be helpful sense for production.

Thanks again for the poll @br4n_d0n! We gotta use that more often In our small sample size, PreForm and Printer screen are where it’s wanted.

[SMute]

This really would be an amazing feature for serial production. Would save a ton of time!

[hasank]

Hi @Davidwedge @SMute

I’m the Product Manager for PreForm. I was the PM for the Form 4 earlier so this thread is very exciting for me!

Can you please help me understand what types of files you’re printing repeatedly? Feel free to DM me or if you want, I’m happy to get on a call to learn more from you.

Cheers!

[Davidwedge]

we have 10-20 production files - repeated files produced on-demand for clients..
it’s a waste of time to go back to find the file, re-load ot the printer, when we run the SAME file 10-20x in a week.
We also have other production style equipment (color industrial printers, laser decks, and water jets), and find that a system for maintaining production files on systems is really helpful. some equipment allows subfolders within the docs folder, some don’t..
It’s VERY VERY helpful to have folder capability for this - - so for example you can load say

• Prototype Folder
  • bad idea 1
  • bad idea 2
• Production Folder
  • Client A
    • widget a
    • widget b
    • widget c
  • Client B
• Testing Folder
  • Test1
  • Test2
  • Test3

Now… your files get stored by use, not by purely chronological.. the chronological is well, meh… but only if you’re ONLY doing prototyping all the time, nad where you only care about the LAST file you just ran…

Imagine running Client A’s file 6 times on a given morning…
Then after lunch you need to go back and find Client B’s widgetA, run last Thursday.. but that was now ~ 18 files ago, so you have to scroll endlessly…and worse, it doesn’t look very different visually from Client B’s WidgeB.

So the image of the item is cute.. and utterly useless.

With the current GUI, I have to scroll endlessly back thru time, as I’m cursing the gods of FL with every passing wasted second of my life, and hoping I’m able to find the right file.

Or i have to go back to the app, find the file from my drive , reload, then re-send…

all of that is a bunch of wasted steps - would be far better if you simply incorporated a filing/file management system on the deck..

[br4n_d0n]

@Davidwedge

production style equipment (color industrial printers, laser decks, and water jets), and find that a system for maintaining production files on systems is really helpful. some equipment allows subfolders

Lol, please tell me you actually have things named “bad idea”

[Davidwedge]

they’re ALL bad ideas.
Only if/when it goes to production (ie., somebody has dropped $$ to buy it), then it becomes a great idea…

[SMute]

I’m not at the point to where I have saved runs on the machine itself. When I do a run that could be a serial run, I always end up needing some number of small parts that I sprinkle in. If I could batch edit the date code on all the big parts in preform that would be amazing for my use case.