Setting up an Automation Job for Acrylic Labels

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@WaterNoodle

The excel file is broken down well with Width, Height, Color, Font 1, font 1 size, font 2, font 2 size, etc)

Because LightBurn cannot set those parameters from the imported CSV file, you must do it manually.

Basically:

• Sort / select the data to get groups of common parameters
• Create separate layouts with labels having identical size / shape / font / size / whatever parameters
• For each of those layouts, import the corresponding CSV file
• Profit!

@WaterNoodle

Font centered horizontally/vertically and with the right size of each line

A recent discussion went over some of the choices:

Variable Text questions?

A noob here! I’m looking to make sticks for plants. 1 - 2 lines of text on each stick. For info like this: Line 1 Line 2 Quan Germanium 25 virginia Bluebells 40 I can set that up with 25 lines of Germanium and 40 lines of Virginia Bluebells in a CSV But: Anyone know if variable text can be given the table showing quantity and it will use the first line for 25 sticks and then go to the 40 lines? If not, I guess I h…

You may need some customer negotiation to reduce the infinite number of combinations to something manageable. After that it’s a matter of making layouts to match the specs, then feeding the corresponding text into the layouts.