[barcode] Printing label sheets

[Brendon Oliver]

Hi all,

I'm trying to layout a sheet of sticky labels to print barcodes in bulk for 
our tape library but cannot seem to get it "just right".

Part of the problem seems to be that the blank sheets we're using have a 15mm 
top & bottom "margin", and barcode seems to want to use the whole page, the 
first label printing just a few mm from the top (or bottom - whichever way 
you want to look at it).  I can't seem to tell it about the 15mm offset to 
the first label (subsequent rows have about a 3mm vertical gap between them). 
I've had no problem with the horizontal positioning - it's only the vertical 
which is causing me headaches.

In case anyone's familiar, these are Avery DL45 A4 label sheets - 3 cols x 15 
rows, and have the best "fit" for our tapes out of all the sticky labels 
we've tried.

Failing that, can anyone give me a rundown on how the various margin settings 
are intended to work?  So far, it seems to me that if you have margins with 
both -t and -g, that the -g settings override -t.  I've tried diddling the 
starting offset in the code but must be missing something obvious (still 
trying though).

Not that it should make any difference, but we're printing plain EAN-13 
labels, and our tape library has no problem reading the barcodes.  This is 
purely a sheet-layout problem.

Thanks for any help or suggestions.

Cheers,

- Brendon.

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