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Step 9: Add the state warning

Most states require specific warning language on cannabis packaging. You do not have to type it: T3 ships the text for you.

  1. Add a Text layer and set its Layer description to State warning.
  2. Drag it into a band along the bottom edge, almost the full width: X: 4% – 96%, Y: 87% – 99%.
  3. Set Value template to {{ t3.text.ca_cannabis_warning_disclosure }}. Insert Field lists it under Built-in Fields.
  4. Set Font Size to 5, Resize Strategy to Shrink Text, and Horizontal Alignment to Left.

Finally, turn off Draw borders. The label is finished.

t3 is a namespace T3 fills in on every request, separate from your own data and your own images. Nothing to upload and nothing to keep up to date.

The key carries the state abbreviation, so co_cannabis_warning_disclosure is the Colorado wording and ma_cannabis_warning_disclosure the Massachusetts one. That abbreviation matches the Metrc hostname your packages come from, so printing this label in another state is a one-key edit. Seventeen states are covered; see State Disclosures.

Warning text is long and every state's is a different length, which is exactly the case Shrink Text exists for. Give it the space you can spare and let it size itself.

The bold lead-in comes from the text itself. Disclosures may carry simple HTML such as <b>, and a Text element renders it.

The finished label with the state warning

PDF with borders • Layout JSON

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