diff --git a/label-item.typ b/label-item.typ index 651cbd5..1e2be26 100644 --- a/label-item.typ +++ b/label-item.typ @@ -10,7 +10,41 @@ width: 38mm, height: 90mm, flipped: false, - margin: (x: 3mm, top: 3mm, bottom: 3mm+9pt), + // Because, for this document, our printer setup - a Brother P-touch QL-500 + // label printer driven by a CUPS with the printer-driver-ptouch - and + // DK-11208 Large Address Labels (38x90mm), either the printer driver or the + // printer itself doesn't properly print on the labels, we need to deploy some + // workarounds using margins. + // Link to the printer-driver-ptouch: + // https://github.com/philpem/printer-driver-ptouch + // + // For the horizontal margins, we use a 4mm margin on the left and a 0mm + // margin on the right. + // Do this because by default the print itself is offset to the left sadly. It + // seems like the printer is printing from the very edge, where the label + // roll, but not the label itself, is. On the label roll on the left there are + // 2mm of material until the label itself starts, so we need to offset by 2mm + // on the left for the print to be on the label itself. However this offset + // also results in a forced margin of 2mm on the right, so to have an even + // margin on the resulting label, add another 2mm of margin on the left, + // resulting in 4mm of margin on the left in total. Also just don't have any + // margin on the right, since there's a forced margin already anyway. + // + // For the vertical margins, we use a 0mm top margin and a 9mm + 9pt bottom + // margin. + // Do this because the printer doesn't print from the very top of the label + // sadly, so since we then have a forced margin there anyway (one of 6mm), we + // don't need to add any top margin. + // On the bottom, we already need a margin of 9pt for the image to be fully on + // the page. However, because the printer doesn't start at the very top, the + // printing ends after the label already ended. To combat this, add a margin + // of 7mm for the logo to still be on the page and add another 2mm for the + // margin to be same as the margin at the sides (resulting in 9mm). + // + // These workarounds were developed for this document, our Brother P-touch + // QL-500 label printer in combination with DK-11208 Large Address Labels + // (38x90mm). + margin: (left: 4mm, right: 0mm, top: 0mm, bottom: 9mm + 9pt), footer-descent: 0%, footer: [ #set text(size: 8pt)