There are some special considerations when printing badges of different sizes when All Selected is selected. When this radio button is first selected, the program must analyze the database to determine if there are badges using different sized badge layouts. Depending on the size of the database, this can take a while to complete. A progress dialog will display how the operation is progressing and a Cancel button is available if needed. If you do cancel, then the Current radio button will be automatically selected.
If the selected group of badges contains templates with different outside dimensions, a warning message will appear immediately underneath the All Selected radio button.
For badge spacing purposes, the overall printing area is considered to be the aggregate size of all of the templates used in the selection. For example, suppose the selection contains badges using 3 templates having these widths and heights:
1. 3.25”(82.6mm) wide by 2.125”(54mm) high
2. 3.00”(76.2mm) wide by 3.00”(76.2mm) high
3. 2.25”(57.2mm) wide by 3.5”(88.9mm) high
The program will use a badge area of 3.25”(82.6mm) wide by 3.5”(88.9mm) high because this is the minimum area which can contain all three sizes. Spacing buttons will use this for computing badge position. Each badge will then be printed in the upper right corner of the reserved area.
Before proceeding with the printing operation you must decide if this is acceptable. It probably would not be if you were printing to precut sheets designed for badges of the size shown in 1. Similarly, if you were printing to a PVC card printer, cards of different sizes and orientations would cause problems.
To make sure that only badges using a specific template number or range of template numbers is included in the selected set, you can select on template number in the Fast Find (see Fast Find) or Select (see Select) dialogs.