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Lot labels
A label on each bag says which lot it is, so nobody has to look it up.
In person
Labels go on before the auction, so the auctioneer can call the lot.
Online
Labels go on after bidding ends, and say who won the lot.
You can scan the QR code on labels to open the lot's page. 4% of lot labels from all in-person auctions are scanned, so I guess most people haven't yet figured out just how cool the phone app's scanning feature is.
In person: before you come
- Add all your lots first, so they fit on as few sheets as possible.
- On the auction's page, click Print Labels. You get a PDF, one label per lot.
- Tape each label to its bag with clear packing tape.
A label got wet or went missing? Open the lot and click Print label.
Online: after bidding ends
Only lots that sold need a label. You'll get an email when it's time.
Printing everybody's labels
If you run the auction, you can print anybody's:
| One person | Print labels next to their name on the Users tab. That page prints all their labels; there's a version for just the unprinted ones. Quickest at the desk, as each seller arrives. |
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| A few, or everyone | Print labels under More. Tick the people and click print. You get one PDF. |
The site remembers which labels have been printed, by anyone. Leave Only print labels that haven't been printed yet ticked and nothing prints twice.
One PDF holds up to 100 labels on a thermal printer, or 500 on sheets. More than that? Print again with "only unprinted" ticked for the next batch.
Sheets, thermal printers and the phone app
What you print on is your own setting, on Label printing. One admin can use a thermal printer and another a laser printer on the same night.
| Setting | Good for |
|---|---|
| Plain paper | Any printer. Cut them out and tape them on. Fine for a few lots. |
| Large (Avery 18262) | Sheet labels on a laser printer. Inkjet ink runs when the bag gets wet. |
| Small (Avery 5160) | Cheap and easy to find, but hard to read. Not recommended. |
| Thermal 3"x2" | The one to buy if you're buying a printer: fast, no ink, and it takes water. Any thermal printer that takes 3"x2" labels works. |
| Thermal 1⅛" x 3½" (Dymo 30252) | Dymo LabelWriters. |
| Custom | Your own page and label sizes. Test a few first: problems show up on the fifth label, not the first. |
- A half-used sheet? Set Empty labels to the number already gone. Set it back to 0 for a fresh sheet.
- A Bluetooth thermal printer prints straight from the phone app, no computer. Pick it on Label printing in the app, and every print button sends labels to it.
- Trying a setting? Reprint labels from an old auction you sold in.
What goes on a label
The people running an auction choose, at Set what gets printed on labels (on the Print labels page).
When labels come out wrong
| On the wrong part of the sheet | Some sheets have different margins top and bottom. Turn the sheet around. |
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| An edge cut off | Try Fit to page instead of Actual size in the print dialog, or the other way round. |
| Labels creep, skip, or come out page-sized | Set the printer to the label size, not Letter or A4, and recalibrate. |
| Faint lines across thermal labels | Clean the print head. |
| Tiny, or the wrong size | Check Label printing matches the paper, on the account you're signed in with. |
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