overlap text after first page
450118Oct 8 2005 — edited Oct 11 2005I created an Oracle report using Reports 6i. The report is to generate a shipping label, which is about 6x4 inches. If I preview on the screen or create the output on a normal letter size paper on a printer (8.5x11 inches), they look just fine.
Because this report is for a shipping label, I print this on a Zebra label printer, ONLY the first page looks ok. Starting from the second page, the text was overlapped from the previous page. For example, an customer order has 3 boxes. I need to print three shipping labels by specifying an order number and it generates 3 labels.
Each label has the same type of info like weight. Say Box 1's label has Weight=12 pounds, Box 2's labels has Weight= 34 pounds. Box 3's label has Weight=56 pounds. The first label always looks fine. The second label's Weight=34 is printed, BUT THE WEIGHT FROM THE PREVIOUS LABEL WEIGHT=12 WAS ALSO PRINTED ON TOP OF THE SECOND LABEL. Because the text WEIGHT= is exactly located on both labels and has the same text, it looks fine. The second label's weight 34 has also 12 printed on top.
1. Do I need to change the setting in the properties? Also by default, the size indicated in the header, main body section, and trailer layout properties are set to Width size of 8.5 inches andI Length of 11 inches. (This is the standard size of a letter paper.) However, I am printing the label size of 6x4 inches, which is the size of the report in the layout editor.
2. Does it have something to do with the continuation of the previous page? As mentioned above, when I print the label for testing on a 8.5x11 letter size paper. It has no problem. I use the Margin editor to set the dimension to just smaller than 6x4 inches, which is the label size. All the text fields of the label are inside the margin. However, on the layout editor, I saw some solid lines horizontally and verticallly outside of the margin (6x4).
Note: The label printer works fine when using an existing application to print the label (report). So the printer itself does not seem to cause the problem.