Using the DAT-MAIL/Tagger Interface - Printing Sibling Trays and Pallet Tags with the Tagger

Before you can print sibling tags or pallet labels, split trays, or re-print lost or damaged tray tags, you must load the Mail.dat for the job you are producing. To do this, perform the following:

From the Tagger’s Main Menu screen, press 2 for Get Tag File.
The Tag File screen will display. From the Tag File screen, press 7 to List Files.

NOTE: Be sure the file type is "Mail.dat" and the Tag Selection is "IMTL". For those doing "in-line" printing of your tray tags; if your jobs are produced in reverse order and this is not reflected in your Mail.dat, you can change the order of tag printing to Reverse by pressing the "5" key.

Next, you will be asked if you would like to search files by Job ID. Select 1 for Yes.

This Job ID is not necessarily the Job ID in your Mail.dats. It is actually a numeric portion of the job number that should have been put in the file name when the Mail.dat was originally generated by the presort program or when you manually exported the Mail.dat to the Tagger. For example, if your job number was 123456, putting 123456 in the Mail.dat name will make this file very easy to retrieve if you answer yes to this question. If you use a network or the Tagger’s share to transfer data to the tagger, this search feature will make it easy to list only jobs that contain the job number entered (plus folders in the share). This way you can see only one or a few files listed out of hundreds or thousands on the share!
You will now see a list of available Mail.dats and folders. If the file list is full, you can advance to the next page to look at more files, then press the key that corresponds to the file you wish to load. You can also select a folder and see which files are located in that folder. When you have selected a specific file, the Tagger's Print Tag File screen will display.
Press 2 to bring up the Mail.dat Functions screen. From here, you can perform some useful functions like batch printing your tray tags by container grouping or pallet number, or even printing all of the tray tags for a pallet by scanning the pallet placard. This feature provides the labor and time savings of using the one-up Tagger tray tags without being impacted by the slower printing speed of the thermal printer compared to batch printing all of your tags with a laser printer on 10/sheet stock. That time savings will more than offset any cost differences of the stock.
Select option 7; the AFSO 3.4 (DAT-MAIL) screen will display.

From this screen you can perform functions that are specific to DAT-MAIL users. This includes creating "sibling" tray tags and pallet labels, splitting trays and re-printing lost or damaged tray tags by scanning a mail piece in the tray.

You may notice that some menu options are disabled and display an asterisk (*) instead of a number. That is because some other action must be taken before that option can be used. For example, you cannot create a sibling for the last tray you printed a tag for unless you just printed a tray tag! In the case of the menu displayed, you cannot set pallet label quantity because the record being displayed when you went to the Mail.dat and DAT-MAIL Functions menus was a tray, not a pallet. If it was a pallet you can specify how many copies of the pallet label you wish to print (if you are using the Tagger to print pallet labels).

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