Labels & printing

A label is what turns "I organized this" into "I can find this without opening every box." Here's how the label queue and printing pipeline actually work.

Queueing items for labels

Add any item to the label queue from its card, its detail page, or the Labels tab — set a quantity if you need more than one copy, and an optional custom text line if the item's own name isn't what you want printed. Queue the same item again later and Packle merges it with the existing entry instead of creating a duplicate row, bumping the quantity for you.

Choosing a template

Three Avery sheet sizes are supported, and you print one template per run (mixing sizes on the same sheet isn't something a real Avery sheet supports, so Packle doesn't pretend otherwise):

Template	Label size	Per sheet
Small (Avery 94235)	2.625" × 2"	15
Medium (Avery 94207)	4" × 2"	10
Large (Avery 94256)	5" × 3.5"	4

Medium is the default — big enough to read from a step back, small enough to fit a normal shoebox lid. Reach for small when you're labeling a lot of similarly-sized bins and want the count per sheet to stretch further, and large when the label itself needs to double as a shelf or door sign.

What's on a label

Every label carries the item's name, an optional note (or a blank write-on line instead of printed text, if you'd rather fill it in by hand later), the item's location path — the container names above it, so the label still tells you where something belongs even off the shelf — and a QR code. Scanning that QR code with Packle's scanner opens the item directly; see Scanning & barcodes for how that lookup works from the other end.

Printing a sheet

The sheet preview you see on screen is the same thing that prints — Packle renders labels with print-accurate CSS instead of generating a separate PDF, so there's no surprise when the paper comes out of the printer. Queues that don't fill a whole sheet, or multi-page queues that need several, are handled automatically; if you're printing onto a partially-used sheet, click the slots that are already spoken for to skip them instead of wasting more labels. When it looks right, print (or save as a PDF) from the browser's own print dialog — there's also a one-page alignment test if you want to confirm your printer's margins before committing a full sheet of labels.

Quick Print for one-offs

Not every label needs to go through the queue. The Quick Print tab prints a single label — pick an item, pick a template, print — for the "I just need one more" case where opening the queue and cleaning it up afterward would be more work than the label itself.

Direct-to-printer thermal printing (experimental)

Packle also has experimental support for printing directly to a Phomemo M110 thermal label printer over Bluetooth, right from the browser — no sheet, no printer driver to install, no PDF in between. It's genuinely experimental: mark it as such in your head when you use it, since roll sizes, print density, and reconnect behavior are all still being tuned. When it's available to your account, you'll see the option alongside the normal sheet-printing flow, with a live preview and an explicit print button — nothing fires off automatically. If your printer or browser doesn't support it, the sheet-printing pipeline above works everywhere a browser and a printer does.