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Alma Acquisitions

Setting up Spine-O-Matic

The Spine-O-Matic settings regularly disappear once or twice a year, so this page is to make sure that resetting everything is easy to do.

There are three pages that need to be reset.

  1. Print Setup
    1. Choose the "ZDesigner GX420t" printer.
    2. Text font: Microsoft Sans Serif
    3. Size: 11 BOLD
    4. Barcode font: Microsoft Sans Serif
    5. Size: 8.25
    6. Top Margin: 0.15
    7. Left Margin: 0.15
    8. Line Spacing: 0.2
    9. Portrait
    10. Lines/Label: 6
    11. Chars/line: 8
  2. Call Number Format
    1. Under Label Type, use the Custom option radio button, not the Spine radio button.
      1. XML sources should look like this (you will need to copy and paste or type):
        <parsed_call_number><call_no_1>
        <parsed_call_number><call_no_2>
        <parsed_call_number><call_no_3>
        <parsed_call_number><call_no_4>
        <parsed_call_number><call_no_5>
        <parsed_call_number><call_no_6>
        <parsed_call_number><call_no_7>
        #<issue_level_description>
        "c."<copy_id>
  3. Alma Access
    1. This information is located in the spine labeler api key document. If that cannot be located, a new API Key can be requested. The Key must be copied and pasted, retyping does not work.