diff --git a/koha-tmpl/intranet-tmpl/prog/en/modules/labels/label-print.tt b/koha-tmpl/intranet-tmpl/prog/en/modules/labels/label-print.tt
index f1b17ee13f..ee997323c1 100644
--- a/koha-tmpl/intranet-tmpl/prog/en/modules/labels/label-print.tt
+++ b/koha-tmpl/intranet-tmpl/prog/en/modules/labels/label-print.tt
@@ -11,6 +11,9 @@
         [% IF ( batches ) %]
             <form>
                 <h3>Click on the following links to download the exported batch(es).</h3>
+                [% IF warn_empty_range %]
+                <div style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">Some or all of the barcodes in the range you have selected have no corresponding items. Because you are using a layout without barcodes, this may result in missing entries or a blank page.</div>
+                [% END %]
                         [% FOREACH batche IN batches %]
                         <fieldset>
                             [% IF ( batche.label_ids ) %]
diff --git a/labels/label-print.pl b/labels/label-print.pl
index 3835ec4672..310546ff5d 100755
--- a/labels/label-print.pl
+++ b/labels/label-print.pl
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ use Modern::Perl;
 use CGI qw ( -utf8 );
 use Data::Dumper;
 
+use C4::Context;
 use C4::Auth qw(get_template_and_user);
 use C4::Output qw(output_html_with_http_headers);
 use C4::Creators::Lib qw(get_all_templates get_all_layouts get_output_formats);
@@ -110,6 +111,18 @@ if ($op eq 'export') {
                         );
     }
     elsif ($from and $to) {
+        my $dbh = C4::Context->dbh;
+
+        my $sth = $dbh->prepare('SELECT COUNT(*) AS has_barcode FROM creator_layouts WHERE printing_type LIKE("%BAR%") AND layout_id = ?;');
+        $sth->execute($layout_id);
+        if ($sth->fetchrow_hashref->{'has_barcode'} == 0) {
+            $sth = $dbh->prepare('SELECT COUNT(*) AS existing_count FROM items WHERE CAST(barcode AS unsigned) BETWEEN ? AND ?;');
+            $sth->execute($from, $to);
+            if ($sth->fetchrow_hashref->{'existing_count'} < ($to - $from + 1)) {
+                $template->param( warn_empty_range => 1 )
+            }
+        }
+
         push (@batches, {create_script   => 'label-create-pdf.pl',
                  from            => $from,
                  to              => $to,