Page Description

Use the Print Labels page to print master or tube labels for one or more order choices in the order. Remember that in order to print labels, you must have a label printer attached to your system and have the necessary label printing application installed. You may download the label printing software by clicking the click here to install link at the top of the Print Labels page in the Copia application. Contact an Orchard Copia Administrator for help with setting up label printing. Depending on the administration settings for your signed in location, Copia may be set up to have the server automatically print labels when an order is placed. An Orchard Copia Administrator may choose to disable access to this page, based on your signed in location, to prevent you from manually printing labels.

Copia uses the tube/container type's label format settings, if they are available, for order choices that require that type of container. If tube/container type label formats do not exist or are not active, Copia uses host label format settings for labels produced for samples that have been routed to that host. If host label formats do not exist or are not active, Copia uses the system default label format set in the System Defaults administration page.

When necessary, Copia will split lines of text on labels when the current line width is exceeded. When this happens, it will continue printing on as many new lines as needed by splitting the current line based on one of the three conditions below. If necessary, printing will carry over onto another label.

1. If possible, Copia splits the line on the last available space.
2. If only one character of a word will be printed on the current line, then it skips to the next line and begins printing without splitting a word.
3. If neither of the above are possible, then it splits the line mid-word when the maximum line-length has been reached.

For more help, click one of the following links:

• Accessing this Page
• Downloading and Installing the Label Printing Software
• Selecting the Label Printer Type
• Printing Labels

Accessing this Page

• Click the Labels link on the Collect Samples page.
• Click the Print Labels button on the Order Patient Samples page.
• Click the Order ID of the desired order, and then click Labels in the popup list in the Collect Samples, Location Inbox, User Inbox, Pending Orders, Order History, Create Manifest, or Find Patient or Order lab tasks pages or the Lab Orders administration page.
• Scan an order bar code while the default page when scanning setting on the System Defaults administration page is set to open the Print Labels page.

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1. If you are printing labels for the first time, click the click here to install link on the Print Labels page in Copia to install the label printing software.
2. You may also click the link below to access the label printing software:

Download LabelPrinting Application

3. A download confirmation page appears. The exact text and options on the page depend on the Web browser that you are using. Select the option or click the Save button to save LabelPrinting.exe to disk.
4. Select a location on your machine to save the LabelPrinting application, and then save the file.
5. Click the Sign Out link to exit Copia.
6. Close all of your Web browser pages.
7. Locate LabelPrinting.exe where you saved it on your machine and double click on it to start it. The program will guide you through the installation process.
8. When the installation is complete, leave the "Setup LabelPrinter" checkbox marked, and click Finish.
9. Check the default settings on the LabelPrinter Settings page, modify the default values if necessary, and click OK.

   If you need to change these settings in the future, run Programs>LabelPrinter>LabelPrinter Setup from the Windows Start menu.

10. Open your browser and sign into Copia. You are now set up to print labels. See "Printing Labels" below.

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Selecting the Label Printer Type

1. Select an option from the Label Printer Type drop-down list to select the type of label printer you use (EPL2 or ZPL II).
2. By default, Copia uses the type of label printer that was selected on the Set Location page, which your workstation saves in a cookie for your Web browser. See the Set Location topic. However, you may temporarily override this setting by selecting a different option here.
3. If you change this setting, Copia will continue using this setting until you sign out and sign back into the program. After you sign out, Copia returns to using the setting from the Set Location page.
4. Click Print Labels to print the number of master and tube labels you specified and return to the previous page. See "Printing Labels" below.
5. Click Cancel to return to the previous page.

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1. If you are printing for the first time, you must download and install the label printing software. See "Downloading and Installing the Label Printing Software" above.
2. Copia displays the selected patient's name, age, and patient ID at the top of the Print Labels page once the patient is selected.
3. Use the Order Master Labels section to enter the number of summary labels to print for the order.
4. Use the Laboratory Master Labels section to enter the number of labels to print for the order in each location. Note that 100 is the maximum label count.
5. Use the Tube/Container Labels section to view order information and enter the number of labels to print for tubes and containers. Note that 100 is the maximum label count.
• Collection Date/Time: The date and time the sample was collected for the order. Note that if a collection time was not sent with the order, Copia enters the current date and time.
• SID: The sample ID for the order choice.
• Order Choices: The order choice(s) the sample in the tube is being collected for.
• Count: The number of tube labels to print. The value of this setting is affected by the signed in location setting for the default tube label count.
6. By default, Copia sets the label quantities to the system defaults created during setup. Either click the Clear All button to clear all pre-set label quantities, or highlight or delete the number already displayed in the field, then modify the quantities as needed.
7. Click Print Labels to print the number of master and tube labels you specified and return to the previous page.
8. Click Cancel to return to the previous page.

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