To provide an article collecting and label applying work system comprising an article collecting work carriage provided with an article work instruction terminal and a label printer for collecting articles in accordance with article collecting work data taken into the terminal to be displayed, and applying labels automatically printed by the label printer to the collected articles, which is capable of preventing using mistaken labels not applicable to a destination of delivery by mistake.

Before starting article collecting work, based on article collecting work data taken into an article collecting work instruction terminal 5, sorts of labels R1, R2 etc., corresponding to destinations of delivery are displayed by label images R11, R12, etc., the article collecting work instruction terminal 5, and the labels R1, R2, etc., in compliance with the label images R11, R12 etc., are selected to be set on a label printer 7.