Output

Your labels leave Labeljoy in two ways: you print them, or you export them to a file - a PDF, or a picture. Both work on the document on screen, and both come out exactly as the work area shows them.

In this chapter
The Print panel	Pick a printer, the copies, and which pages or labels to print.
Print start position	Carry on down a sheet of labels you've already partly used.
When the page does not match the printer	What the warning about paper sizes means, and what to do about it.
The Export panel	Save pages, label sets or single elements as files.
File formats	PDF, JPEG, PNG, WEBP, GIF, TIFF and BMP, and which one to pick.
Vector output modes	What goes inside a PDF: shapes, searchable text, or pictures.
Command line	Print and export without opening Labeljoy's window - from a script, a scheduled task or another program.

The quick way. Ctrl+P prints the document on screen straight away, with the settings it already has, and Ctrl+E exports it the same way. Ctrl+Shift+P and Ctrl+Shift+E open the Print and Export panels instead. See Keyboard shortcuts.

How many labels come out. Every label set adds its own labels: the number you gave it, or one for each row of its data source. You can print or export all of them, or just some pages or some labels - both panels have the same choices.

Before anything comes out, Labeljoy may ask
A password	If the document is protected against printing and exporting. See Protecting a document.
How many labels	For a label set with Ask before print or export switched on, in the Label set panel.
What to put on the labels	For the values your labels ask for every time you print. See References.
Nothing, but it updates the data	A data source set to update before output reads its data again first. See Updating and removing a data source.

Cancel any of these questions and nothing is printed or exported at all.

While it works. A short job just happens. A longer one shows a progress window after a couple of seconds, with a Cancel button. Cancel stops the job at the next page: when you're printing, the pages already sent to the printer still come out. Nothing tells you when a print is done - the paper does.

In a copy of Labeljoy that isn't activated, everything you print, export or save as an image carries a DEMO watermark across it, and the number of times you can save is limited. See Demo, activation and Care+.

Other ways to print and export
Joy	Joy, the AI assistant, can print or export for you. It always shows you what it's about to print, on which printer, and waits for you to say yes.
A print shortcut	Save print shortcut on the desktop, in the Save panel, puts an icon on your desktop that prints the document with a double-click.
File Explorer	Right-click a Labeljoy file and choose Print with Labeljoy - in Windows 11 it's under Show more options.
The right-click menu	Copy as image and Save as image... make a picture of an element, a label or a page, at screen resolution.