Print the job card, bucket labels and batch cards from Factory

Every batch in Factory has a card. The Job Card goes into the green bucket before the roast. It shows a large batch number readable across the room, the coffee and green weight, the profile, machine, operator and scheduled time, an optional blank box for the post-roast weight and a QR code. The Batch Card uses the same layout, printed after weigh-out for the roasted-beans bucket, with the roasted weight and loss replacing the blank box. Both match the cards printed from the Roastnet web app, so cards from either source read the same on the bench.

Set the label size and what is on the card

1. 1Open Preferences and choose Roasting, then scroll to Job Card printing.
2. 2Pick the Label size that matches your stock: 4 x 6 thermal, 4 x 4 thermal, 2 x 4 Avery sheets, Dymo 30252 address labels, or Custom (mm) with your own width and height. Type scales with the width, so a tiny Dymo still fits the batch number on one line.
3. 3Turn Include QR code on if phones in the roastery should be able to open the batch in Roastnet with a scan. It adds a small square at the bottom of the card.
4. 4Turn Post-roast weight box on if your operators write the cooled weight on the card in pen and enter it into the app afterwards. Off, the card is shorter.
5. 5These settings sync to Roastnet, so the web app prints identical cards.

Batch numbering

Just above the printing settings is Batch numbering, which sets the label every roast carries. Sequential is a plain counter such as #3142. Date + counter gives a date stamp with a daily counter, for example 261019-03. Food safety auditors like this because the day is in the number. Custom template builds your own format from placeholders: a roastery prefix, the global counter, the daily counter, the coffee code from the bean record, and short or long date stamps. A Preview shows the result as you type. The number is assigned when the batch is scheduled or weighed and never changes afterwards. Roastnet uses a separate internal ID for syncing, so renaming your scheme does not break old records.

Print one bucket's job card

1. 1Open Schedule and click the batch. Press Print Job Card in the row dialog; it stays open so you can print and then mark the weight.
2. 2The print preview opens with the card drawn at the selected label size, and the size picker in the toolbar if this card needs a different stock.
3. 3Press Print Job Card in the top right. Factory opens the system print panel, so pick the label printer and confirm. The QR code, when enabled, encodes the batch identifier.

Print a whole day

On the Weighing list, the printer icon on any row prints that batch's job card. Tick the batches you want, or Select all, and press Print... to choose between a Running sheet (A4), one grouped sheet to carry to the green store and tick off as you weigh, and Bucket labels, one label per batch sized to your stock. A common pattern is to print the sheet before weighing and the labels after: the sheet plans the walk, and the labels travel with the buckets.

Batch cards after the roast

Once a batch is weighed out, its Schedule row offers Print Batch Card. The card shows ROASTED with the drop date and time instead of the scheduled time, and ROASTED WEIGHT and ROAST LOSS in place of the blank box. Stick it on the roasted bucket or resting bin so staff at the packing table know exactly which roast they are packing.