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Every product, lot, and serial in Closient has a GS1 Digital Link URI. The label sheet builder turns those identifiers into a print-ready PDF laid out for real label stock — Avery, Brother, Maco, and around 1,700 other sheet formats — so you can print QR labels on a normal office printer.

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Opening the builder

From a product’s edit page, open Lots or Serials, then Print & Export → Label sheet builder. The builder lives at:
It is available to any team member with contribute permission on the organization. Label generation is a brand-authenticated action — Closient does not offer QR generation on public product pages.

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The four steps

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1. Pick your label stock

The builder opens on the Closient default: 63 one-inch square labels per US Letter sheet (a 7 × 9 grid), which matches ChromaLabel, Avery 94103, and other 63-up stocks. Select Browse label stock catalog to search the full registry. You can filter by: Stocks that share geometry with another part show an ≡ badge — for example, a generic part that is dimensionally identical to an Avery one. Either will print correctly on the other’s sheets.
The catalog comes from the open-source gLabels template library, which is where the measured dimensions for each vendor part originate. Closient does not re-measure them, so if a vendor changes a part’s layout the catalog entry can lag. Always do the alignment test print described below before committing a box of label stock.

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2. Check the sheet preview

The preview draws the selected stock at true page proportions, with each label in its real position and size. Filled positions show how far your current selection fills the first sheet; empty positions are unused label slots you will waste. Below the preview, the builder shows the exact GS1 Digital Link that will be encoded, along with a sample QR code. The URI looks like:
The uppercase scheme and host are deliberate. QR codes have an alphanumeric encoding mode whose character set is uppercase-only, and it packs 5.5 bits per character against byte mode’s 8. Keeping the whole URI uppercase-safe drops a typical Digital Link from QR Version 3 to Version 2 — larger, more forgiving modules at the same printed size. Resolvers treat the host case-insensitively, so nothing is lost. Lot and serial values are not uppercased, because AI(10) and AI(21) are case-sensitive GS1 data.

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3. Choose what gets printed

The identifier list shows the lots (or serials) for this product, with each one’s last-printed date. Everything is selected by default; uncheck what you do not want, or use the header checkbox to clear the lot. Two shortcuts sit above the list:
  • All — every active identifier for the product
  • Never printed — only identifiers with no recorded print event, so a reprint run does not duplicate labels you already applied
If you arrived from a lot run, the list is scoped to that run’s identifiers.

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4. Set print options and export

Select Export sheet PDF. Small exports download immediately; larger ones queue and land on an export status page you can poll and re-download from for seven days.

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Before you print a real sheet

Print at 100% scale. “Fit to page” and “shrink to printable area” are on by default in several browsers and PDF viewers, and both shift every label off its backing by a growing amount across the sheet.
  1. Enable Draw label outlines and export.
  2. Print that PDF on plain paper at 100%.
  3. Hold it against a real label sheet up to a light. The outlines should sit on the die-cut edges.
  4. If they are off, the paper size or the stock selection is wrong — not the scale. Re-check the vendor part number printed on the label packaging.

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What printing records

Exporting a sheet writes a PRINTED lifecycle event against every identifier included, carrying the export job’s id. That is what powers the Never printed filter and the last-printed column, and it is the audit trail a recall investigation reads to establish which lots were physically labelled and when. Copies do not multiply the event — one export records one print per identifier regardless of how many copies of each label it produced.

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Other export formats

The Print & Export dropdown on the lots and serials pages covers the non-sheet outputs: QR files from the ZIP export carry their physical print size in the file itself (a PNG pHYs chunk, or mm units on the SVG), so the designer does not have to re-derive the size from a pixel count.

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Command line

The same export runs headlessly for scripted or scheduled label generation:
The command creates the same export job the builder does, so the output, the audit trail, and the retention behaviour are identical.