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1. A method of organizing and causing the printing of labels in digital, lane based label printing on a label printer configured to print at least two lanes across at least a portion of a roll of printable material, the lanes being in the direction of the unrolling of the printable material, and involving more than one column of labels, the columns being in the direction perpendicular to the lanes, the method comprising:
identifying a first label print job and a second label print job; wherein the first label print job differs from the second label print job by at least one of the following differences: different customers, different purchase orders, different line numbers, different label graphics, and different label text; forming a gang of label print jobs comprising the first and second label print jobs; laying out the gang of label print jobs for subsequent printing on the roll of printable material in a printer, wherein laying out the gang of label print jobs further comprises:
laying out labels from the first label print job successively within a lane of said at least two lanes and starting in a first lane of the at least two lanes, wherein the laying out of labels from the first label print job continues in a second lane of the at least two lanes if: (a) the first lane is full, and (b) all labels from the first label print job have not yet been laid out; andlaying out labels from the second label print job successively within a lane of said at least two lanes and starting following the first label print job; and providing the layout of the gang of label print jobs to a printer; and printing the gang of label print jobs based on the layout.
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