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Step 1: Start with a blank label

Everything starts from an empty label on the right template.

  1. In the preview pane on the right, click Start fresh. If a PDF preview is already showing, click Reset below it and confirm, and the start buttons come back.
  2. Open Template Builder and click Reset on the current template card.
  3. Search the starter templates for 2.25x4 and pick the thermal one.
  4. Turn on Draw borders below Generate PDF. The label redraws with its edges outlined. If it does not, click Generate PDF.

Start fresh clears the layout and the data, but loads a 3x1 template, which is why you swap it for the taller one.

Draw borders is the fastest way to see what you are doing. It outlines the label edge, the printable area inside the padding, and every element you add. We leave it on for the whole build and turn it off at the end.

The template controls the physical medium: a 2.25 by 4 inch label, one per page, with 1/16 inch of padding. On a thermal printer the page and the label are the same rectangle.

A blank 2.25x4 thermal label with borders drawn

Printed PDF • Layout JSON

Behind the scenes 
{
  "name": "Tutorial label",
  "labelContentLayoutElements": []
}

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