# Set up and qualify LabelRules printing

Connect the correct PrintStation route and check this product’s label on the real printer.

Source: https://help.smartfact.ai/manuals/labels/printer-setup

Review edition: 25 October 2026

Roles: owner, supervisor

PrintStation manages printer transport and its printer qualification. LabelRules also records a qualification for its own rendered label on the selected printing binding. Completing one does not automatically complete the other.

Owner manages the LabelRules printing route. Owner or Supervisor can print and record the product qualification. Use only the actions your roles permit.

## Prepare PrintStation first

Arrange the workstation or agent, printer, media profile and printer qualification in PrintStation. Read [PrintStation set-up](/manuals/printstation/owner). Check that the destination belongs to the correct organisation and accepts the intended stock.

Physical printing and measurement are real set-up activities performed by your team. A software preview or demonstration cannot qualify equipment.

## Choose the route

Open **Printer setup** in LabelRules and inspect **Print through PrintStation**. An Owner can turn PrintStation printing on and select the route, with recent two-factor confirmation when required.

An attended route uses the PrintStation panel on an enrolled workstation. A routed destination sends accepted work to its bound agent for unattended printing. Read the station notice and confirm the named destination before preparing production work.

Where the current page offers **Print from the panel instead**, it changes the route back to attended operation. It is not a retry control for a job with unknown output.

## Qualify the LabelRules label

1. Load the intended stock and confirm the printer route.
2. Under **Qualify LabelRules' label on your printer**, prepare/send the offered qualification label.
3. Follow it through PrintStation and inspect the physical output.
4. Record the measurements, observations and confirmations the page requests.
5. Check that the qualification is recorded for the intended current station and printer binding.

If output is unknown, resolve it in PrintStation first. Do not record measurements from an unrelated old label to clear the gate.

## Know when qualification must be repeated

Changing the route, turning PrintStation off and on, or a destination being repointed can change the binding. A renderer change can also require a new product qualification. Read the current refusal or qualification status before resuming production or publishing a release.

Ordinary publication on an unchanged, qualified binding does not by itself require a new physical label.

## If printing is held

Check the station's qualification and the destination's state. Ask the PrintStation Owner about a changed printer or unavailable agent. Ask the Supervisor about unresolved output. Changing routes to avoid a hold does not resolve the evidence for earlier copies.