diff --git a/backend/toolshed/api/inventory.py b/backend/toolshed/api/inventory.py
index 40f2b97..833c00e 100644
--- a/backend/toolshed/api/inventory.py
+++ b/backend/toolshed/api/inventory.py
@@ -149,6 +149,10 @@ class StorageLocationViewSet(viewsets.ModelViewSet):
     serializer_class = StorageLocationSerializer
     authentication_classes = [SignatureAuthentication]
     permission_classes = [IsAuthenticated]
+    # Detail routes address a location by its owner-scoped id, not the internal row id. See
+    # docs/implementation.md#inventory-detail-routes-use-owner-scoped-ids.
+    lookup_field = 'id'
+    lookup_url_kwarg = 'pk'
 
     def get_queryset(self):
         if type(self.request.user) == KnownIdentity and self.request.user.user.exists():
diff --git a/backend/toolshed/models.py b/backend/toolshed/models.py
index 6fdb9ff..6136a86 100644
--- a/backend/toolshed/models.py
+++ b/backend/toolshed/models.py
@@ -169,7 +169,27 @@ class ItemTag(models.Model):
     inventory_item = models.ForeignKey(InventoryItem, on_delete=models.CASCADE)
 
 
+class OwnerStorageLocationSequence(models.Model):
+    """Tracks the last StorageLocation id handed out per owner for sequential, gapless allocation
+    (see StorageLocation.create_for_owner)."""
+    owner = models.ForeignKey(ToolshedUser, on_delete=models.CASCADE, related_name='+', unique=True)
+    last_id = models.PositiveIntegerField(default=0)
+
+    @classmethod
+    def allocate(cls, *, owner):
+        with transaction.atomic():
+            seq, _ = cls.objects.select_for_update().get_or_create(owner=owner)
+            seq.last_id += 1
+            seq.save(update_fields=['last_id'])
+            return seq.last_id
+
+
 class StorageLocation(models.Model):
+    internal_id = models.AutoField(primary_key=True)
+    # Externally visible id, sequential/gapless within the owner's own locations (see
+    # OwnerStorageLocationSequence), never internal_id; always allocate via create_for_owner, not
+    # .objects.create().
+    id = models.PositiveIntegerField(editable=False)
     name = models.CharField(max_length=255)
     description = models.TextField(null=True, blank=True)
     category = models.ForeignKey(Category, on_delete=models.CASCADE, null=True, blank=True,
@@ -177,10 +197,23 @@ class StorageLocation(models.Model):
     parent = models.ForeignKey('self', on_delete=models.CASCADE, null=True, blank=True, related_name='children')
     owner = models.ForeignKey(ToolshedUser, on_delete=models.CASCADE, related_name='storage_locations')
 
+    class Meta:
+        constraints = [
+            models.UniqueConstraint(fields=['owner', 'id'], name='storagelocation_unique_owner_scoped_id'),
+        ]
+
     def __str__(self):
         parent = str(self.parent) + "/" if self.parent else ""
         return parent + self.name
 
+    @classmethod
+    def create_for_owner(cls, *, owner, **kwargs):
+        """The only supported way to create a StorageLocation: atomically allocates the next id
+        for this owner's scope."""
+        with transaction.atomic():
+            next_id = OwnerStorageLocationSequence.allocate(owner=owner)
+            return cls.objects.create(owner=owner, id=next_id, **kwargs)
+
 
 class WorkflowInstance(models.Model):
     slug = models.CharField(max_length=255)
diff --git a/backend/toolshed/offlinedata.py b/backend/toolshed/offlinedata.py
index 1175e63..ee9f383 100644
--- a/backend/toolshed/offlinedata.py
+++ b/backend/toolshed/offlinedata.py
@@ -339,13 +339,17 @@ def import_locations(user, data):
                 if category_path:
                     category = get_or_create_category(category_path)
 
-                location, _ = StorageLocation.objects.update_or_create(
-                    owner=user, name=name, parent=parent,
-                    defaults={
-                        'description': row.get('description', '') or '',
-                        'category': category,
-                    },
-                )
+                defaults = {
+                    'description': row.get('description', '') or '',
+                    'category': category,
+                }
+                try:
+                    location = StorageLocation.objects.get(owner=user, name=name, parent=parent)
+                    for field, value in defaults.items():
+                        setattr(location, field, value)
+                    location.save(update_fields=list(defaults.keys()))
+                except StorageLocation.DoesNotExist:
+                    location = StorageLocation.create_for_owner(owner=user, name=name, parent=parent, **defaults)
                 resolved_by_path[path] = location
                 imported += 1
         except Exception as error:
diff --git a/backend/toolshed/serializers.py b/backend/toolshed/serializers.py
index 4c864f3..369222f 100644
--- a/backend/toolshed/serializers.py
+++ b/backend/toolshed/serializers.py
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+from django.core.exceptions import ObjectDoesNotExist
 from rest_framework import serializers
 from authentication.models import KnownIdentity, ToolshedUser, FriendRequestIncoming, Group, GroupInviteIncoming
 from authentication.serializers import OwnerSerializer, GroupOwnerSerializer
@@ -150,15 +151,50 @@ class CategorySerializer(serializers.ModelSerializer):
         return resolve_category_handle(data.split("/")[-1])
 
 
+class OwnerScopedPrimaryKeyRelatedField(serializers.PrimaryKeyRelatedField):
+    """Resolves/represents by the owner-scoped `id` rather than the model's internal pk, scoped to
+    the requesting user - StorageLocation.parent points at another StorageLocation, whose publicly
+    visible identity is now the owner-scoped id (see StorageLocation.create_for_owner), not
+    internal_id."""
+
+    def use_pk_only_optimization(self):
+        # False: to_representation needs the owner-scoped `id`, not just the internal pk that the
+        # PKOnlyObject optimization would otherwise limit us to.
+        return False
+
+    def get_queryset(self):
+        queryset = super().get_queryset()
+        request = self.context.get('request')
+        if request is not None and type(request.user) == KnownIdentity and request.user.user.exists():
+            return queryset.filter(owner=request.user.user.get())
+        return queryset.none()
+
+    def to_internal_value(self, data):
+        queryset = self.get_queryset()
+        try:
+            if isinstance(data, bool):
+                raise TypeError
+            return queryset.get(id=data)
+        except ObjectDoesNotExist:
+            self.fail('does_not_exist', pk_value=data)
+        except (TypeError, ValueError):
+            self.fail('incorrect_type', data_type=type(data).__name__)
+
+    def to_representation(self, value):
+        return value.id
+
+
 class StorageLocationSerializer(serializers.ModelSerializer):
     owner = OwnerSerializer(read_only=True)
     category = serializers.CharField(required=False, allow_null=True, allow_blank=True)
+    parent = OwnerScopedPrimaryKeyRelatedField(queryset=StorageLocation.objects.all(), required=False,
+                                               allow_null=True)
     path = serializers.SerializerMethodField()
 
     class Meta:
         model = StorageLocation
         fields = ['id', 'name', 'description', 'path', 'category', 'owner', 'parent']
-        read_only_fields = ['path']
+        read_only_fields = ['id', 'path']
 
     @staticmethod
     def get_path(obj):
@@ -166,6 +202,9 @@ class StorageLocationSerializer(serializers.ModelSerializer):
             return StorageLocationSerializer.get_path(obj.parent) + "/" + obj.name
         return obj.name
 
+    def create(self, validated_data):
+        return StorageLocation.create_for_owner(**validated_data)
+
 
 class ItemPropertySerializer(serializers.ModelSerializer):
     property = PropertySerializer(read_only=True)
@@ -195,6 +234,8 @@ class InventoryItemSerializer(serializers.ModelSerializer):
     properties = ItemPropertySerializer(many=True, required=False, source='itemproperty_set')
     category = CategorySerializer(required=False, allow_null=True)
     files = FileSerializer(many=True, read_only=True)
+    storage_location = OwnerScopedPrimaryKeyRelatedField(queryset=StorageLocation.objects.all(), required=False,
+                                                          allow_null=True)
 
     class Meta:
         model = InventoryItem
diff --git a/backend/toolshed/tests/fixtures.py b/backend/toolshed/tests/fixtures.py
index 942de7e..69c2e42 100644
--- a/backend/toolshed/tests/fixtures.py
+++ b/backend/toolshed/tests/fixtures.py
@@ -49,12 +49,12 @@ class InventoryTestMixin(CategoryTestMixin, TagTestMixin, PropertyTestMixin):
 
 class LocationTestMixin:
     def prepare_locations(self):
-        self.f['loc1'] = StorageLocation.objects.create(name='loc1', owner=self.f['local_user1'])
-        self.f['loc2'] = StorageLocation.objects.create(name='loc2', owner=self.f['local_user1'],
-                                                        category=self.f['cat1'])
-        self.f['loc3'] = StorageLocation.objects.create(name='loc3', owner=self.f['local_user1'], parent=self.f['loc1'])
-        self.f['loc4'] = StorageLocation.objects.create(name='loc4', owner=self.f['local_user1'], parent=self.f['loc1'],
-                                                        category=self.f['cat1'])
+        self.f['loc1'] = StorageLocation.create_for_owner(name='loc1', owner=self.f['local_user1'])
+        self.f['loc2'] = StorageLocation.create_for_owner(name='loc2', owner=self.f['local_user1'],
+                                                          category=self.f['cat1'])
+        self.f['loc3'] = StorageLocation.create_for_owner(name='loc3', owner=self.f['local_user1'], parent=self.f['loc1'])
+        self.f['loc4'] = StorageLocation.create_for_owner(name='loc4', owner=self.f['local_user1'], parent=self.f['loc1'],
+                                                          category=self.f['cat1'])
 
 
 class WorkflowTestMixin:
diff --git a/frontend/src/assets/fonts/label/Inter-Regular.woff2 b/frontend/src/assets/fonts/label/Inter-Regular.woff2
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..d228a4a
Binary files /dev/null and b/frontend/src/assets/fonts/label/Inter-Regular.woff2 differ
diff --git a/frontend/src/components/CameraScanner.vue b/frontend/src/components/CameraScanner.vue
index a6cb277..a786981 100644
--- a/frontend/src/components/CameraScanner.vue
+++ b/frontend/src/components/CameraScanner.vue
@@ -32,13 +32,156 @@
 
 <script>
 import * as BIcons from "bootstrap-icons-vue";
-import {loadAnyDCode} from "../../vendor/anyd-qr.js";
+import {loadAnyDCode, toGrayFrame} from "../../vendor/anyd-qr.js";
+// Same file as above, but as a plain URL (Vite's `?url` suffix skips bundling it into this
+// module) - the decode worker built in createDecodeWorker() below needs a fetchable/importable
+// URL for its own, independent `import()`, since a worker has no access to this module's own
+// import bindings.
+import anydUrl from "../../vendor/anyd-qr.js?url";
 import cameraManager from "@/cameraManager.js";
 
 // How long a detected code's overlay box stays drawn before fading, so it doesn't linger once
 // the code has moved out of frame.
 const OVERLAY_CLEAR_MS = 2000;
 
+// Capture-loop tuning, matching prototypes/anydcode-wasm's advanced camera demo's own
+// defaults/findings (see its parameter-sweep-findings.md) but at a rate suited to a
+// battery-conscious inventory-scanning UI rather than that demo's max-responsiveness dial.
+const CAPTURE_FPS = 4;
+const CAPTURE_DOWNSCALE = 2;
+
+// Milliseconds to suppress re-emitting a symbology+text pair already reported - independent of
+// (and shorter than) COOLDOWN_MS below, since it throttles noisy duplicate "scan" events even
+// on ticks where a candidate did get decoded (e.g. because the worker was otherwise idle).
+const EMIT_DEDUPE_MS = 800;
+
+// Location-based cooldown: skip re-decoding a candidate whose box overlaps a recent successful
+// decode while the worker has other work pending, so a code sitting still in frame doesn't keep
+// re-paying decode2d's cost every tick. Ported the IoU-overlap idea (not the code) from
+// prototypes/anydcode-wasm/packages/qr-wasm/advanced_demo/pipeline.js's createCooldownTracker.
+const COOLDOWN_MS = 1500;
+const COOLDOWN_IOU_THRESHOLD = 0.3;
+
+// A crop bigger than this (px, longer side) is almost always oversampled for its module count,
+// so shrink it before decode2d - cheaper, and no less reliable for a close-up code - capped at
+// MAX_DECODE_DOWNSCALE so a genuinely complex/high-version code that happens to fill the frame
+// isn't pushed below a safe pixels-per-module floor. Values as validated by the advanced demo's
+// parameter sweep (see its parameter-sweep-findings.md).
+const DECODE_TARGET_CROP_SIZE = 400;
+const MAX_DECODE_DOWNSCALE = 3;
+
+// A queued decode job older than this is dropped unsent rather than dispatched - by the time the
+// (single) worker would reach it, the frame it came from is stale enough that decoding it is
+// wasted work. MAX_DECODE_QUEUE bounds how many candidates can be waiting at once; there's only
+// one worker, so this is a queue depth, not a pool size.
+const MAX_QUEUE_AGE_MS = 1000;
+const MAX_DECODE_QUEUE = 4;
+
+function boundingBox(corners) {
+    let x0 = Infinity, y0 = Infinity, x1 = -Infinity, y1 = -Infinity;
+    for (const [x, y] of corners) {
+        if (x < x0) x0 = x;
+        if (y < y0) y0 = y;
+        if (x > x1) x1 = x;
+        if (y > y1) y1 = y;
+    }
+    return {x0, y0, x1, y1};
+}
+
+// Intersection-over-union of two `{x0,y0,x1,y1}` boxes, 0 (no overlap) to 1 (identical).
+function iou(a, b) {
+    const x0 = Math.max(a.x0, b.x0);
+    const y0 = Math.max(a.y0, b.y0);
+    const x1 = Math.min(a.x1, b.x1);
+    const y1 = Math.min(a.y1, b.y1);
+    const interArea = Math.max(0, x1 - x0) * Math.max(0, y1 - y0);
+    if (interArea === 0) return 0;
+    const areaA = (a.x1 - a.x0) * (a.y1 - a.y0);
+    const areaB = (b.x1 - b.x0) * (b.y1 - b.y0);
+    return interArea / (areaA + areaB - interArea);
+}
+
+// Crop a sub-frame out of `luma` (row-major, `width`x`height`), expanding by `pad` pixels and
+// clamping to the source bounds, so a tight `locate()` box still leaves the decoder its quiet
+// zone.
+function cropGray(width, height, luma, box, pad) {
+    const x0 = Math.max(0, Math.floor(box.x0 - pad));
+    const y0 = Math.max(0, Math.floor(box.y0 - pad));
+    const x1 = Math.min(width, Math.ceil(box.x1 + pad));
+    const y1 = Math.min(height, Math.ceil(box.y1 + pad));
+    const w = Math.max(1, x1 - x0);
+    const h = Math.max(1, y1 - y0);
+    const out = new Uint8Array(w * h);
+    for (let row = 0; row < h; row++) {
+        const srcStart = (y0 + row) * width + x0;
+        out.set(luma.subarray(srcStart, srcStart + w), row * w);
+    }
+    return {width: w, height: h, luma: out, offsetX: x0, offsetY: y0};
+}
+
+// Pick how much to shrink this candidate's crop before decode2d(), from its own detected size -
+// `1` (no change) for the common small/typical case; only a candidate detected as unusually
+// large gets downscaled, and only by as much as its size actually calls for.
+function chooseDecodeDownscale(box, targetSize, maxDownscale) {
+    const size = Math.max(box.x1 - box.x0, box.y1 - box.y0);
+    return Math.min(maxDownscale, Math.max(1, Math.floor(size / targetSize)));
+}
+
+// Crop `box` (expanded by `pad`, clamped to the frame) for decoding, downscaling by
+// `decodeDownscale` in the same step when that's `> 1`. At `1` this is exactly `cropGray`; a
+// real downscale instead re-samples from `sourceCanvas` (the RGBA source) so the browser's own
+// image scaling does the antialiased averaging a manual subsample of an already-grayscale array
+// would not.
+function cropForDecode(width, height, luma, box, pad, decodeDownscale, sourceCanvas, scratchCanvas, scratchCtx) {
+    if (decodeDownscale === 1) {
+        return {...cropGray(width, height, luma, box, pad), decodeDownscale};
+    }
+    const x0 = Math.max(0, Math.floor(box.x0 - pad));
+    const y0 = Math.max(0, Math.floor(box.y0 - pad));
+    const x1 = Math.min(width, Math.ceil(box.x1 + pad));
+    const y1 = Math.min(height, Math.ceil(box.y1 + pad));
+    const srcW = Math.max(1, x1 - x0);
+    const srcH = Math.max(1, y1 - y0);
+    const dstW = Math.max(1, Math.round(srcW / decodeDownscale));
+    const dstH = Math.max(1, Math.round(srcH / decodeDownscale));
+    if (scratchCanvas.width !== dstW || scratchCanvas.height !== dstH) {
+        scratchCanvas.width = dstW;
+        scratchCanvas.height = dstH;
+    }
+    scratchCtx.drawImage(sourceCanvas, x0, y0, srcW, srcH, 0, 0, dstW, dstH);
+    const cropLuma = toGrayFrame(scratchCtx.getImageData(0, 0, dstW, dstH)).luma;
+    return {width: dstW, height: dstH, luma: cropLuma, offsetX: x0, offsetY: y0, decodeDownscale};
+}
+
+// Builds the off-main-thread decode2d()/decode1d() half of the pipeline: a single Worker (its
+// source assembled from a template string, not a separate file, to keep this pipeline contained
+// in this component) that dynamically imports the same anyd-qr.js bundle already used on the
+// main thread for locate(), so a slow decode never blocks capture, detection, or this
+// component's own overlay/UI rendering. It gets its own wasm instance - a worker's wasm memory
+// isn't shared with the main thread - via that import's own `loadAnyDCode()` cache, exactly like
+// the main thread's `anydPromise` below.
+function createDecodeWorker() {
+    const absoluteAnydUrl = new URL(anydUrl, window.location.href).href;
+    const source = `
+import { loadAnyDCode } from ${JSON.stringify(absoluteAnydUrl)};
+const anydPromise = loadAnyDCode();
+self.onmessage = async (event) => {
+    const {jobId, width, height, luma} = event.data;
+    try {
+        const anyd = await anydPromise;
+        const codes = anyd.decodeImage({width, height, luma: new Uint8Array(luma)});
+        self.postMessage({type: "result", jobId, codes});
+    } catch (err) {
+        self.postMessage({type: "error", jobId, message: err?.message ?? String(err)});
+    }
+};
+`;
+    const blobUrl = URL.createObjectURL(new Blob([source], {type: "application/javascript"}));
+    const worker = new Worker(blobUrl, {type: "module"});
+    URL.revokeObjectURL(blobUrl);
+    return worker;
+}
+
 export default {
     name: "CameraScanner",
     components: {
@@ -173,22 +316,182 @@ export default {
                 this.localSelectedCameraId = cameraManager.getSelectedCameraId() || "";
 
                 const anyd = await this.anydPromise;
-                this.scanner = anyd.createCameraScanner(this.$refs.video, {
-                    fps: 4,
-                    downscale: 2,
-                    onDecode: (codes) => {
-                        this.$emit("scan", codes);
-                        this.drawOverlay(codes);
-                    },
-                    onError: (err) => console.error("[camera scan]", err),
-                });
-                this.scanner.start();
+                this.detectWasm = anyd.raw;
+                this.seen = new Map();
+                this.cooldownEntries = [];
+                clearInterval(this.captureTimer);
+                this.captureTimer = setInterval(() => this.captureTick(), 1000 / CAPTURE_FPS);
                 this.cameraRunning = true;
             } catch (e) {
                 this.$emit("error", `Camera error: ${e.message ?? e}`);
             }
         },
 
+        // The tick driving the whole pipeline: grab+downscale the current video frame, run
+        // `locate()` right here on the main thread (cheap enough not to need a worker of its
+        // own), then hand each candidate crop off to the decode worker rather than decoding it
+        // inline - see createDecodeWorker()'s doc comment for why.
+        captureTick() {
+            const video = this.$refs.video;
+            if (!video || !video.videoWidth || !video.videoHeight || !this.detectWasm) {
+                return;
+            }
+
+            const width = Math.max(1, Math.round(video.videoWidth / CAPTURE_DOWNSCALE));
+            const height = Math.max(1, Math.round(video.videoHeight / CAPTURE_DOWNSCALE));
+            if (this.captureCanvas.width !== width || this.captureCanvas.height !== height) {
+                this.captureCanvas.width = width;
+                this.captureCanvas.height = height;
+            }
+            this.captureCtx.drawImage(video, 0, 0, width, height);
+            const frame = toGrayFrame(this.captureCtx.getImageData(0, 0, width, height));
+
+            let candidates;
+            try {
+                candidates = this.detectWasm.locate(width, height, frame.luma);
+            } catch (err) {
+                this.$emit("error", `Camera error: ${err.message ?? err}`);
+                return;
+            }
+            if (!Array.isArray(candidates)) {
+                return;
+            }
+
+            const now = performance.now();
+            for (const candidate of candidates) {
+                if (!candidate?.corners) continue;
+                const box = boundingBox(candidate.corners);
+                const nativeBox = {
+                    x0: box.x0 * CAPTURE_DOWNSCALE,
+                    y0: box.y0 * CAPTURE_DOWNSCALE,
+                    x1: box.x1 * CAPTURE_DOWNSCALE,
+                    y1: box.y1 * CAPTURE_DOWNSCALE,
+                };
+
+                // Something decoded near here recently, and the worker has other work pending -
+                // skip re-decoding this candidate rather than spend it re-reading a code that's
+                // (almost certainly) still just sitting there. If the worker/queue is otherwise
+                // idle, decode anyway: there's no contention to save, and it keeps this
+                // location's cooldown entry from going stale between real hits.
+                if ((this.decodeWorkerBusy || this.decodeQueue.length > 0) && this.findCooldownNear(nativeBox, now)) {
+                    continue;
+                }
+
+                const decodeDownscale = chooseDecodeDownscale(box, DECODE_TARGET_CROP_SIZE, MAX_DECODE_DOWNSCALE);
+                const crop = cropForDecode(
+                    width, height, frame.luma, box, 4, decodeDownscale,
+                    this.captureCanvas, this.decodeScratchCanvas, this.decodeScratchCtx);
+                this.enqueueDecodeJob(crop, decodeDownscale, now);
+            }
+        },
+
+        enqueueDecodeJob(crop, decodeDownscale, now) {
+            this.pruneStaleJobs(now);
+            if (this.decodeQueue.length >= MAX_DECODE_QUEUE) {
+                return;
+            }
+            this.decodeQueue.push({
+                jobId: ++this.jobCounter,
+                generation: this.captureGeneration,
+                enqueuedAt: now,
+                payload: {jobId: this.jobCounter, width: crop.width, height: crop.height, luma: crop.luma.buffer},
+                transfer: [crop.luma.buffer],
+                offsetX: crop.offsetX,
+                offsetY: crop.offsetY,
+                downscale: CAPTURE_DOWNSCALE,
+                decodeDownscale,
+            });
+            this.dispatchNextJob();
+        },
+
+        // FIFO order means the front of the queue is always the oldest, so the first
+        // non-expired entry means nothing behind it can be expired either - one pass from the
+        // front is sufficient.
+        pruneStaleJobs(now) {
+            while (this.decodeQueue.length > 0 && now - this.decodeQueue[0].enqueuedAt > MAX_QUEUE_AGE_MS) {
+                this.decodeQueue.shift();
+            }
+        },
+
+        dispatchNextJob() {
+            if (this.decodeWorkerBusy) {
+                return;
+            }
+            this.pruneStaleJobs(performance.now());
+            const job = this.decodeQueue.shift();
+            if (!job) {
+                return;
+            }
+            this.decodeWorkerBusy = true;
+            this.pendingJob = job;
+            this.decodeWorker.postMessage(job.payload, job.transfer);
+        },
+
+        // The worker only ever saw this one candidate's crop, so any `box` it reports is
+        // relative to that crop's own pixels - coarser than the capture frame's if this
+        // candidate got its own decode-time downscale. Scale back up by that factor to land in
+        // the crop's own space, then apply its offset, then the capture downscale in effect
+        // when this job was dispatched, to land on native video pixels.
+        handleWorkerMessage(event) {
+            const msg = event.data;
+            const job = this.pendingJob;
+            this.decodeWorkerBusy = false;
+            this.pendingJob = null;
+
+            if (msg.type === "error") {
+                console.error("[camera scan]", msg.message);
+            } else if (job && job.jobId === msg.jobId && job.generation === this.captureGeneration) {
+                const now = performance.now();
+                const codes = (msg.codes ?? []).map((code) => ({
+                    ...code,
+                    box: code.box && {
+                        x0: (code.box.x0 * job.decodeDownscale + job.offsetX) * job.downscale,
+                        y0: (code.box.y0 * job.decodeDownscale + job.offsetY) * job.downscale,
+                        x1: (code.box.x1 * job.decodeDownscale + job.offsetX) * job.downscale,
+                        y1: (code.box.y1 * job.decodeDownscale + job.offsetY) * job.downscale,
+                    },
+                }));
+
+                for (const code of codes) {
+                    if (code.box) this.rememberCooldown(code.box, now);
+                }
+
+                const dedupeNow = Date.now();
+                const fresh = codes.filter((code) => {
+                    const key = `${code.type}|${code.text ?? ""}`;
+                    const lastSeen = this.seen.get(key);
+                    if (lastSeen !== undefined && dedupeNow - lastSeen < EMIT_DEDUPE_MS) {
+                        return false;
+                    }
+                    this.seen.set(key, dedupeNow);
+                    return true;
+                });
+                if (fresh.length > 0) {
+                    this.$emit("scan", fresh);
+                    this.drawOverlay(fresh);
+                }
+            }
+
+            this.dispatchNextJob();
+        },
+
+        rememberCooldown(box, now) {
+            const existing = this.cooldownEntries.find((e) => iou(e.box, box) >= COOLDOWN_IOU_THRESHOLD);
+            if (existing) {
+                existing.box = box;
+                existing.decodedAt = now;
+            } else {
+                this.cooldownEntries.push({box, decodedAt: now});
+            }
+            // Prune well past the cooldown window so a long session doesn't accumulate forever.
+            this.cooldownEntries = this.cooldownEntries.filter((e) => now - e.decodedAt < COOLDOWN_MS * 4);
+        },
+
+        findCooldownNear(box, now) {
+            return this.cooldownEntries.some(
+                (e) => now - e.decodedAt < COOLDOWN_MS && iou(e.box, box) >= COOLDOWN_IOU_THRESHOLD);
+        },
+
         async switchCamera(cameraId) {
             if (!this.cameraRunning) return;
             try {
@@ -200,8 +503,15 @@ export default {
         },
 
         stopCamera() {
-            this.scanner?.stop();
-            this.scanner = null;
+            clearInterval(this.captureTimer);
+            this.captureTimer = null;
+            this.decodeQueue = [];
+            // Bumped so a decode job dispatched before this stop - still in flight in the
+            // worker - is recognized as stale and discarded once its result arrives (see
+            // handleWorkerMessage), rather than applied against whatever's running by then.
+            // decodeWorkerBusy/pendingJob are deliberately left alone: they resolve themselves
+            // when that in-flight result lands.
+            this.captureGeneration++;
             cameraManager.closeStream();
             if (this.$refs.video) {
                 this.$refs.video.srcObject = null;
@@ -235,8 +545,28 @@ export default {
         // in-flight load; loadAnyDCode also memoizes, so later calls elsewhere in the app are
         // free too.
         this.anydPromise = loadAnyDCode();
-        this.scanner = null;
+        this.detectWasm = null;
         this.clearOverlayTimer = null;
+        this.captureTimer = null;
+        this.captureGeneration = 0;
+        this.seen = new Map();
+        this.cooldownEntries = [];
+
+        // decode2d()/decode1d() run in this worker, off the main thread, so a slow decode never
+        // stalls locate()/capture or this component's own rendering - see createDecodeWorker().
+        // Long-lived for the component's lifetime (not recreated per start/stop) so switching
+        // cameras or restarting the scan doesn't pay wasm-instantiation cost again.
+        this.decodeWorker = createDecodeWorker();
+        this.decodeWorker.onmessage = (event) => this.handleWorkerMessage(event);
+        this.decodeWorkerBusy = false;
+        this.pendingJob = null;
+        this.jobCounter = 0;
+        this.decodeQueue = [];
+
+        this.captureCanvas = typeof OffscreenCanvas !== "undefined" ? new OffscreenCanvas(1, 1) : document.createElement("canvas");
+        this.captureCtx = this.captureCanvas.getContext("2d");
+        this.decodeScratchCanvas = typeof OffscreenCanvas !== "undefined" ? new OffscreenCanvas(1, 1) : document.createElement("canvas");
+        this.decodeScratchCtx = this.decodeScratchCanvas.getContext("2d");
     },
     mounted() {
         window.addEventListener("resize", this.syncOverlaySize);
@@ -260,6 +590,7 @@ export default {
         this.$refs.video?.removeEventListener("loadedmetadata", this.onVideoResize);
         this.$refs.video?.removeEventListener("resize", this.onVideoResize);
         clearTimeout(this.clearOverlayTimer);
+        this.decodeWorker.terminate();
     },
 }
 </script>
diff --git a/frontend/src/components/LabelLayoutPreview.vue b/frontend/src/components/LabelLayoutPreview.vue
index d697178..e0a68b3 100644
--- a/frontend/src/components/LabelLayoutPreview.vue
+++ b/frontend/src/components/LabelLayoutPreview.vue
@@ -90,12 +90,12 @@
     background: #fff;
 }
 
-/* Corner badge flagging *why* a layout that's otherwise available (fields filled in) still
-   failed to render - e.g. label.js's "bigger code than the tape allows" or "doesn't fit on this
-   tape" errors (see redraw()'s catch). Shows the short label directly (e.g. "too big") rather than
-   just an icon, so the reason reads at a glance; the full sentence is still the title tooltip. Not
-   shown for the more common "fields not filled in yet" case (see isSelectable/unavailableReason)
-   since that's already conveyed by the greyed-out thumbnail. */
+/* Corner badge flagging *why* a layout failed to render - a capacity error (label.js's "bigger
+   code than the tape allows"/"doesn't fit on this tape") or label-layouts.js's templateContent
+   throwing "missing data" because a field it needs isn't filled in yet (see redraw()'s catch).
+   Shows the short label directly (e.g. "too big", "missing data") rather than just an icon, so the
+   reason reads at a glance; the full sentence is still the title tooltip. Layered on top of the
+   greyed-out/unselectable state isSelectable/unavailableReason already apply for the same case. */
 .template-thumb-warning {
     position: absolute;
     top: .35rem;
@@ -276,17 +276,8 @@ export default {
                 if (!canvas) {
                     continue;
                 }
-                const content = templateContent(t, this.fields);
-                if (!this.isAvailable(t) || !content) {
-                    canvas.width = 1;
-                    canvas.height = 1;
-                    delete this.failed[t.id];
-                    delete this.warned[t.id];
-                    delete this.qrInfo[t.id];
-                    delete this.textInfo[t.id];
-                    continue;
-                }
                 try {
+                    const content = templateContent(t, this.fields);
                     const {warnings, qrInfo, textInfo} = this.tape
                         ? drawLabel(canvas, this.tape, content, "along")
                         : drawFallbackLabel(canvas, content, "along");
diff --git a/frontend/src/label-layouts.js b/frontend/src/label-layouts.js
index 018b69d..84dc502 100644
--- a/frontend/src/label-layouts.js
+++ b/frontend/src/label-layouts.js
@@ -86,14 +86,39 @@ export const LABEL_TEMPLATES = [
     },
     {
         id: "rmqr-url", name: "rMQR Token", description: "The code with the encoded text printed next to it.",
-        required_vars: ["shortUrl","itemId"], tags: ["external"],
-        layout: [{type: "rmqr", content: c => c.shortUrl},GAP,{type: "text", content: c => c.itemId?.toString().padStart(4, "0")}]
+        required_vars: ["shortUrl", "itemId"], tags: ["external"],
+        layout: [{type: "rmqr", content: c => c.shortUrl}, GAP, {
+            type: "text",
+            content: c => c.itemId?.toString().padStart(4, "0")
+        }]
     },
     {
         id: "mqr-tokem-id", name: "rMQR Token", description: "The code with the encoded text printed next to it.",
-        required_vars: ["shortId","itemId"], tags: ["internal"],
-        layout: [{type: "mqr", content: c => c.shortId},GAP,{type: "text", content: c => c.itemId?.toString().padStart(4, "0")}]
-    },...QR_ONLY_TEMPLATES,
+        required_vars: ["shortId", "itemId"], tags: ["internal"],
+        layout: [{type: "mqr", content: c => c.shortId}, GAP, {
+            type: "text",
+            content: c => c.itemId?.toString().padStart(4, "0")
+        }]
+    },
+    {
+        id: "location-rmqr-url", name: "rMQR Token", description: "The code with the encoded text printed next to it.",
+        required_vars: ["shortUrl", "locationId"], tags: ["external"],
+        layout: [{type: "rmqr", content: c => c.shortUrl}, GAP, {
+            type: "text",
+            content: c => c.locationId?.toString().padStart(4, "0")
+        }]
+    },
+    {
+        id: "location-mqr-tokem-id",
+        name: "rMQR Token",
+        description: "The code with the encoded text printed next to it.",
+        required_vars: ["shortId", "locationId"],
+        tags: ["internal"],
+        layout: [{type: "mqr", content: c => c.shortId}, GAP, {
+            type: "text",
+            content: c => c.locationId?.toString().padStart(4, "0")
+        }]
+    }, ...QR_ONLY_TEMPLATES,
 
     {
         id: "qr-text", name: "QR code + text", description: "The code with the encoded text printed next to it.",
@@ -110,7 +135,7 @@ export const LABEL_TEMPLATES = [
         id: "id-qr-text-vertical", name: "ID + QR code + text below",
         description: "The code with the encoded text printed below it.",
         required_vars: ["itemId", "text", "userHandle"],
-        layout: [[{type: "text", content: c => "Item: "+c.itemId}, GAP, {
+        layout: [[{type: "text", content: c => "Item: " + c.itemId}, GAP, {
             type: "qr",
             content: c => c.text
         }, GAP, {type: "text", content: c => c.userHandle}]]
@@ -148,6 +173,17 @@ export const LABEL_TEMPLATES = [
         required_vars: ["userHandle", "itemId"], tags: ["internal"],
         layout: [{type: "text", content: c => [c.userHandle, c.itemId]}]
     },
+    {
+        id: "location-id", name: "Location ID", description: "Just the bare storage location id, as text only.",
+        required_vars: ["locationId"], tags: ["internal"],
+        layout: [{type: "text", content: c => c.locationId}]
+    },
+    {
+        id: "owner-id-text-location", name: "Owner + location ID",
+        description: "The owner's handle and the location id, as two lines of text - no code.",
+        required_vars: ["userHandle", "locationId"], tags: ["internal"],
+        layout: [{type: "text", content: c => [c.userHandle, c.locationId]}]
+    },
     {
         id: "item-url-qr-handle", name: "Item URL + handle",
         description: "Scannable item URL, with the item's compact handle printed alongside.",
@@ -272,14 +308,15 @@ export function templateIsAvailable(t, fields) {
 }
 
 // Resolves t's content leaves against fields into a tree for label.js's
-// drawLabel/drawFallbackLabel, or null if nothing to render yet.
+// drawLabel/drawFallbackLabel. Throws the same {message, short} shape as label.js's own
+// capacity errors (see docs/implementation.md#missing-data-is-a-templatecontent-error) when a
+// leaf isn't resolved yet, rather than returning null, so a caller's single catch around
+// drawLabel/drawFallbackLabel handles both without a separate isAvailable pre-check.
 export function templateContent(t, fields) {
-    const tree = mapTree(t.layout, leaf => leaf.type === "empty" ? leaf : {...leaf, value: leaf.content(fields)});
-    let hasContent = false;
-    walkLeaves(tree, leaf => {
-        if (leaf.type !== "empty" && leaf.value && (!Array.isArray(leaf.value) || leaf.value.some(Boolean))) {
-            hasContent = true;
-        }
-    });
-    return hasContent ? tree : null;
+    if (!templateIsAvailable(t, fields)) {
+        const err = new Error("This layout needs more fields filled in before it can be drawn.");
+        err.short = "missing data";
+        throw err;
+    }
+    return mapTree(t.layout, leaf => leaf.type === "empty" ? leaf : {...leaf, value: leaf.content(fields)});
 }
diff --git a/frontend/src/label.js b/frontend/src/label.js
index e2ec350..ac26a18 100644
--- a/frontend/src/label.js
+++ b/frontend/src/label.js
@@ -81,14 +81,18 @@ const TEXT_REFERENCE_PX = 100;		/* font size text leaves measure their natural a
 
 // Below 10px, a general-purpose sans-serif gets illegible, so drawTextLeaf switches to a bitmap
 // font (Tom Thumb/Silkscreen) instead; see the empirical rationale (font choice, `scale`, and why
-// sizes aren't dpi-adjusted) at docs/implementation.md#pixel-font-selection.
-const PIXEL_FONT_TIERS = [
-    {belowPx: 8, family: "Tom Thumb", scale: 3.2},
-    {belowPx: 10, family: "Silkscreen"},
+// sizes aren't dpi-adjusted) at docs/implementation.md#pixel-font-selection. The 10px+ tier names
+// Inter explicitly (see ../scss/_label-fonts.scss) rather than falling back to the CSS generic
+// "sans-serif" keyword, which resolves to a different real font per browser/OS and would make the
+// same label print differently depending on where it was rendered from.
+const FONT_TIERS = [
+    {belowPx: 8, family: "Tom Thumb", scale: 3.2, pixel: true},
+    {belowPx: 10, family: "Silkscreen", pixel: true},
+    {belowPx: Infinity, family: "Inter"},
 ];
 
 function fontFamilyFor(fontPx) {
-    return PIXEL_FONT_TIERS.find(t => fontPx < t.belowPx) ?? {family: "sans-serif"};
+    return FONT_TIERS.find(t => fontPx < t.belowPx);
 }
 
 // Below this font size (px) or physical height (mm) - Tom Thumb's real-Chromium-tested legibility
@@ -291,11 +295,12 @@ function checkTextSizes(node, referencePx, pxPerMm, warnings, textInfo) {
     }
 }
 
-// Always measures in sans-serif at the reference size, since the eventual font (see
-// PIXEL_FONT_TIERS) isn't known until layoutTree sizes the box this aspect ratio feeds into; the
-// resulting mismatch is invisible in practice, and checkTextSizes still catches real failures.
+// Always measures in Inter at the reference size, since the eventual font (see FONT_TIERS) isn't
+// known until layoutTree sizes the box this aspect ratio feeds into; the resulting mismatch (when
+// a pixel font tier ends up chosen instead) is invisible in practice, and checkTextSizes still
+// catches real failures.
 function measureTextBlock(ctx, lines, referencePx) {
-    ctx.font = `${referencePx}px sans-serif`;
+    ctx.font = `${referencePx}px "Inter"`;
     const width = Math.max(...lines.map(line => ctx.measureText(line).width));
     const height = referencePx * 1.15 * lines.length;
     return {width, height};
@@ -342,20 +347,18 @@ function drawQrLeaf(ctx, node) {
 // there's no "too small to draw" case left to special-case here.
 function drawTextLeaf(ctx, node, referencePx) {
     const fontPx = effectiveFontPx(node, referencePx);
-    const {family, scale = 1} = fontFamilyFor(fontPx);
-    const isPixelFont = family !== "sans-serif";
+    const {family, scale = 1, pixel: isPixelFont = false} = fontFamilyFor(fontPx);
     // Position (not size - fontPx is already a whole pixel) still needs snapping for pixel fonts
-    // to stay grid-aligned, since node.box.x/y are ordinary (fractional) layout math; sans-serif is
+    // to stay grid-aligned, since node.box.x/y are ordinary (fractional) layout math; Inter is
     // left exact since anti-aliasing handles fractional positions fine.
     const snap = isPixelFont ? Math.round : (v) => v;
-    // `scale` (Tom Thumb only, see PIXEL_FONT_TIERS above) corrects the size handed to ctx.font
-    // for its real ink; fontPx itself stays the logical size used for centering/stacking math.
+    // `scale` (Tom Thumb only, see FONT_TIERS above) corrects the size handed to ctx.font for its
+    // real ink; fontPx itself stays the logical size used for centering/stacking math.
     ctx.font = `${fontPx * scale}px "${family}"`;
     // Canvas text silently falls back if drawn before a not-yet-loaded font resolves, unlike DOM
-    // text. See docs/implementation.md#canvas-font-loading.
-    if (isPixelFont) {
-        document.fonts.load(ctx.font);
-    }
+    // text. See docs/implementation.md#canvas-font-loading. Every tier now names a real,
+    // self-hosted webfont (see FONT_TIERS above), so this always applies, not just to pixel fonts.
+    document.fonts.load(ctx.font);
     ctx.textAlign = "center";
     const centerX = snap(node.box.x + node.box.width / 2);
     const lineHeight = node.box.height / node.lines.length;
@@ -527,9 +530,9 @@ export function drawFallbackLabel(canvas, content, orientation = "along") {
 // print label should show/encode; keyed by `kind` so each kind's format is defined in one place.
 export const LABEL_CONTENT_BUILDERS = {
     // The self-contained Item URL (see docs/design-in-progress/items-labels.md), built from just
-    // the prefill's {userHandle, id}; the short link (Print.vue's `shortUrl`) needs an async store
+    // the prefill's {userHandle, item}; the short link (Print.vue's `shortUrl`) needs an async store
     // lookup, so it stays a separate field/template rather than being baked in here.
-    "item": ({userHandle, id}) => `${window.location.origin}/i/${encodeHandleForUrl(userHandle)}/${id}`,
+    "item": ({userHandle, item}) => `${window.location.origin}/i/${encodeHandleForUrl(userHandle)}/${item}`,
     // Storage locations have no long-form URL route yet (see router.js), so `text` starts blank;
     // the short link and any future location template still work via the base vars below.
 };
@@ -542,7 +545,7 @@ export function buildLabelContent(prefill) {
     return build ? build(prefill.components) : "";
 }
 
-// Splits a prefill's {userHandle, id} into label-layouts.js's user/domain base vars (the same way
+// Splits a prefill's {userHandle, item/location} into label-layouts.js's user/domain base vars (the same way
 // store.js's lookupServer does), tagging on whichever id field the resource's templates key
 // required_vars by.
 function splitUserHandle(userHandle) {
@@ -560,19 +563,19 @@ function splitUserHandle(userHandle) {
 // computed live elsewhere (see DERIVED_VARS, Print.vue's `shortUrl`), and omitting a field
 // (rather than leaving it present-but-empty) signals "not available" to templateIsAvailable.
 const LABEL_FIELD_BUILDERS = {
-    "item": ({userHandle, id}) => {
+    "item": ({userHandle, item}) => {
         const split = splitUserHandle(userHandle);
-        if (!split || !id) {
+        if (!split || !item) {
             return {};
         }
-        return {...split, itemId: String(id)};
+        return {...split, itemId: String(item)};
     },
-    "storage-location": ({userHandle, id}) => {
+    "storage-location": ({userHandle, location}) => {
         const split = splitUserHandle(userHandle);
-        if (!split || !id) {
+        if (!split || !location) {
             return {};
         }
-        return {...split, locationId: String(id)};
+        return {...split, locationId: String(location)};
     },
 };
 
diff --git a/frontend/src/router.js b/frontend/src/router.js
index d3f3597..9198495 100644
--- a/frontend/src/router.js
+++ b/frontend/src/router.js
@@ -139,7 +139,9 @@ const routes = [{path: '/', component: Dashboard, meta: {requiresAuth: true}}, {
     meta: {requiresAuth: true},
     props: route => {
         const {kind, ...components} = route.query;
-        return {prefill: kind ? {kind, components} : null};
+        // queryFields lets any base var (e.g. ?text=...) be set directly, without going through
+        // a `kind` builder - see Print.vue's varValues.
+        return {prefill: kind ? {kind, components} : null, queryFields: components};
     }
 }, {
     path: '/scan',
diff --git a/frontend/src/scss/toolshed.scss b/frontend/src/scss/toolshed.scss
index 22ce7f3..5be483d 100644
--- a/frontend/src/scss/toolshed.scss
+++ b/frontend/src/scss/toolshed.scss
@@ -94,6 +94,7 @@ $body-color: $gray-700;
 @import "dropdown";
 @import "pixel-fonts";
 @import "pixel-fonts-candidates";
+@import "label-fonts";
 
 #root, body, html {
   height: 100%;
diff --git a/frontend/src/views/Inventory.vue b/frontend/src/views/Inventory.vue
index fd2808d..5adca48 100644
--- a/frontend/src/views/Inventory.vue
+++ b/frontend/src/views/Inventory.vue
@@ -154,7 +154,7 @@ export default {
         // See docs/implementation.md#print-link-shape-for-personal-items.
         printLinkFor(item) {
             if (!item.owner) return null
-            return {path: '/print', query: {kind: 'item', userHandle: item.owner, id: item.id}}
+            return {path: '/print', query: {kind: 'item', userHandle: item.owner, item: item.id}}
         },
     },
     async mounted() {
diff --git a/frontend/src/views/InventoryDetail.vue b/frontend/src/views/InventoryDetail.vue
index 6268ae2..0685771 100644
--- a/frontend/src/views/InventoryDetail.vue
+++ b/frontend/src/views/InventoryDetail.vue
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@
                             Delete
                         </button>
                         <button v-if="canPrint" class="btn btn-secondary"
-                                @click="$router.push({path: '/print', query: {kind: 'item', userHandle: decodedHandle, id}})">
+                                @click="$router.push({path: '/print', query: {kind: 'item', userHandle: decodedHandle, item: id}})">
                             <b-icon-printer></b-icon-printer>
                             Print label
                         </button>
diff --git a/frontend/src/views/Print.vue b/frontend/src/views/Print.vue
index 9fa4d78..21195bc 100644
--- a/frontend/src/views/Print.vue
+++ b/frontend/src/views/Print.vue
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@
                     </div>
                     <div class="card-body">
                         <p class="text-muted small mb-3">
-                            Nine pixel/bitmap-style fonts found in frontend/public, rendered live from the "Text"
+                            Ten pixel/bitmap-style fonts found in frontend/public, rendered live from the "Text"
                             field above at a range of sizes so they can be judged the same way Tom Thumb/Silkscreen
                             were. <strong>CodersCrux</strong> and <strong>712Serif</strong> fail to load as web
                             fonts at all - Chromium's OTS sanitizer rejects their cmap table - so their cells below
@@ -86,7 +86,7 @@
                                 <h5 class="card-title mb-0">Label preview</h5>
                             </div>
                             <div class="card-body">
-                                <div class="label-preview mb-3" v-show="selectedContent">
+                                <div class="label-preview mb-3" v-show="fallbackReady">
                                     <canvas ref="fallbackCanvas"></canvas>
                                 </div>
 
@@ -144,7 +144,7 @@
                                     Connect a printer to preview and print a label.
                                 </p>
                                 <template v-else>
-                                    <div class="preview-row mb-3" v-show="selectedContent">
+                                    <div class="preview-row mb-3" v-show="labelBitmap">
                                         <div class="ruler-v">
                                             <div class="ruler-v-corner"></div>
                                             <div class="ruler ruler-v-ticks"
@@ -306,6 +306,12 @@ export default {
         prefill: {
             type: Object,
             default: null
+        },
+        // Every query param other than `kind` (router.js), so any base var - e.g. ?text=... - can
+        // be set directly without needing a `kind` builder in label-layouts.js.
+        queryFields: {
+            type: Object,
+            default: () => ({})
         }
     },
     data() {
@@ -327,13 +333,14 @@ export default {
             // Scan-reliability messages from label.js's drawLabel/drawFallbackLabel (too few px per QR module, or too small in mm) - the label still rendered/prints fine, just flagged as a risk.
             warnings: [],
 
-            // One input per BASE_VARS entry; derived vars (userHandle/itemUrl/itemHandle) are calculated-only (see the `fields` computed), never stored here. Prefilled from query params but left editable.
+            // One input per BASE_VARS entry; derived vars (userHandle/itemUrl/itemHandle) are calculated-only (see the `fields` computed), never stored here. Prefilled from query params but left editable. queryFields is applied last so an explicit ?text=... etc. always wins over a `kind` builder's computed value.
             varValues: {
                 ...Object.fromEntries(BASE_VARS.map(v => [v, ""])),
                 text: buildLabelContent(this.prefill),
                 // Defaults to this page's own origin; editable since any frontend can resolve any handle, so a label needn't point back at this one.
                 webdomain: window.location.origin,
                 ...buildLabelFields(this.prefill),
+                ...Object.fromEntries(BASE_VARS.filter(v => v in this.queryFields).map(v => [v, this.queryFields[v]])),
             },
             copies: 1,
             selectedTemplate: LABEL_TEMPLATES[0].id,
@@ -347,7 +354,7 @@ export default {
             brotherCliExample: "brother_ql --model QL-000 --printer usb://0000:0000 print --label 00 label.png",
             niimbotCliExample: "niimprint --model b00 --conn usb print --density 3 --image label.png",
 
-            // Nine pixel/bitmap font candidates for legibility testing only (see the disabled card above); not used by label.js's real PIXEL_FONT_TIERS.
+            // Ten pixel/bitmap font candidates for legibility testing only (see the disabled card above); not used by label.js's real FONT_TIERS.
             candidateFonts: [
                 {family: "Pixelon"},
                 {family: "Pixelbasel"},
@@ -358,6 +365,7 @@ export default {
                 {family: "6pxExpert"},
                 {family: "Jersey10"},
                 {family: "Jersey15"},
+                {family: "Terminus"},
             ],
             candidateSizes: [5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 12, 16, 20],
             candidateZoom: 4,
@@ -395,9 +403,6 @@ export default {
         currentTemplate() {
             return LABEL_TEMPLATES.find(t => t.id === this.selectedTemplate) || LABEL_TEMPLATES[0];
         },
-        selectedContent() {
-            return templateContent(this.currentTemplate, this.fields);
-        },
         deviceRows() {
             if (!this.blob) {
                 return [];
@@ -625,8 +630,7 @@ export default {
 
         redraw() {
             this.labelBitmap = null;
-            const content = this.selectedContent;
-            if (!this.tape || !content) {
+            if (!this.tape) {
                 return;
             }
             const canvas = this.$refs.labelCanvas;
@@ -636,6 +640,7 @@ export default {
             this.resizeObserver.observe(canvas.parentElement);
             let textSizesPx, warnings;
             try {
+                const content = templateContent(this.currentTemplate, this.fields);
                 ({textSizesPx, warnings} = drawLabel(canvas, this.tape, content, this.orientation));
             } catch (e) {
                 this.error = e.message;
@@ -653,10 +658,6 @@ export default {
 
         redrawFallback() {
             this.fallbackReady = false;
-            const content = this.selectedContent;
-            if (!content) {
-                return;
-            }
             const canvas = this.$refs.fallbackCanvas;
             if (!canvas) {
                 return;
@@ -664,6 +665,7 @@ export default {
             this.resizeObserver.observe(canvas.parentElement);
             let warnings;
             try {
+                const content = templateContent(this.currentTemplate, this.fields);
                 ({warnings} = drawFallbackLabel(canvas, content, this.orientation));
             } catch (e) {
                 this.error = e.message;
@@ -739,7 +741,7 @@ export default {
             }
         },
 
-        // Renders the "Text" field at exact size/family with no layout snapping, so the font itself is judged; ink-centered vertically (like label.js's drawTextLeaf) so unreliable metrics don't clip.
+        // Renders the "Text" field at exact size/family with no layout snapping, so the font itself is judged; ink-centered vertically (like label.js's drawTextLeaf) so unreliable metrics don't clip. Thresholded through canvasToBitmap/bitmapToCanvas afterwards, same as redraw()'s real label preview, so a candidate is judged on the same 1-bit dots the printer would actually fire, not the anti-aliased canvas render.
         drawCandidateCell(canvas, family, fontPx) {
             if (!canvas) {
                 return;
@@ -758,6 +760,7 @@ export default {
             ctx.fillRect(0, 0, canvas.width, canvas.height);
             ctx.fillStyle = "#000";
             ctx.fillText(text, 2, (canvas.height + up - down) / 2);
+            bitmapToCanvas(canvas, canvasToBitmap(canvas));
             canvas.style.width = `${canvas.width * this.candidateZoom}px`;
             canvas.style.height = `${canvas.height * this.candidateZoom}px`;
         },
diff --git a/frontend/src/views/StorageLocation.vue b/frontend/src/views/StorageLocation.vue
index ada150c..3d23bb7 100644
--- a/frontend/src/views/StorageLocation.vue
+++ b/frontend/src/views/StorageLocation.vue
@@ -136,7 +136,7 @@ export default {
         // Routes to Print.vue with this location's raw identity, same shape as Inventory.vue's
         // printLinkFor. See docs/implementation.md#print-link-shape-for-storage-locations.
         printLinkFor(location) {
-            return {path: '/print', query: {kind: 'storage-location', userHandle: location.owner, id: location.id}}
+            return {path: '/print', query: {kind: 'storage-location', userHandle: location.owner, location: location.id}}
         },
     },
     async mounted() {