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Designer
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Designer
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PowerForms Suite |
| GENERAL |
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| Intuitive Office 365 style user interface |
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| Extensive contextual help with inline tips to empower business users |
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| Free phone and e-mail technical support for software evaluation and registered users |
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| 20 User interface Languages |
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| Accepts and prints data in any language - Unicode data support |
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| Single straightforward installer for 32 and 64 bit environments |
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| Users or Printers |
Single user and unlimited printers |
Single user and unlimited printers or
unlimited users and 3,5 or 10 printers |
Unlimited users and 3,5 or 10 printers |
| TEMPLATE DESIGN |
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| Label setup wizard for quick start with best printing quality and performance |
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| Text, barcodes, lines, boxes, circles, clip art, images and PDF files |
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| Print objects in reverse/negative: white on black |
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| Windows system and built-in printer fonts support |
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| Rich text object including powerful editor with support for tables and more |
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| Printing of supply chain documents like delivery notes, pick lists, packing slips, reports, etc. |
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| Object panel to quickly find and manage objects on the complex label templates |
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| Extensive RFID support |
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| Fit-text-to-box (dynamic point size) |
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| Text on ellipse |
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| Wrap-text-to-shape (word-wrapping and text justification to non-rectangular shapes) |
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| Object alignment tools with snap-to-objects and arbitrary rotation of all objects |
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| Relative object positioning and variable label length |
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| Library of ready-to-use international standards compliance label templates |
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| More than 70 linear and 2D barcode symbologies with support for printer-based barcodes |
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| Intuitive GS1 Application Identifier Data Source Wizard |
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| Automatic check digit calculation |
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| Place "human readable" text anywhere in relation to barcodes |
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| Customizable "human readable" character template |
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| Object printing based on dynamic data (business rules) |
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| Unlimited undo and redo commands |
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| Security: lock label design with a password |
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| DYNAMIC DATA |
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| Single screen for straightforward management of dynamic data (Dynamic Data Manager) |
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| Import and Export Dynamic data definitions |
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| Keyboard or scanner input at print time |
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| Decimal counters |
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| Full serialization including support for printer-based serial numbers |
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| Date and Time fields sourced from PC or Printer |
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| Print data from Excel and text files |
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| Full database connectivity to almost any existing database |
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| Custom SQL database queries |
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| Reusable connections to multiple databases and tables within the label or solution |
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| Variable graphic fields including graphics sourced from database and base64-encoded data |
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| 10+ prebuilt functions for efficient data concatenation and processing |
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| VBScript and Python scripting for custom data processing |
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| ON-DEMAND CONTROLED PRINTING AND PRINT PRODUCTIVITY |
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| Auto-built, all-in-one printing form with data entry controls and dynamic print job preview |
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| Customizable data-entry filters and error checking |
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| Print time database record selection on a single screen |
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| Secure operator environment for efficient document selection and printing (NiceLabel Print) |
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| Single click creation of shortcuts for printing |
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| Adaptable print form for improved control and efficiency (recommended for touch screens) |
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| Responsive form design to fit different screen resolutions |
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| Spellchecking for manual data entry |
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| Integrated no-programming graphical application builder for building efficient labelling solutions for controlled printing |
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| Fully configurable user experience with 15+ prebuilt user interface controls and support for multiple forms |
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| Workflow and business rules editor including 40+ actions for printing labels, database queries, integrations with scales, PLCs… |
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| Solution document type can contain multiple labels and forms for improved dynamic data management and portability |
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| Integrated PDF engine for optimized PDF document creation without 3rd party tools |
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| Support for multi-lingual custom applications |
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| Interface and control peripheral devices, weight scales, PLCs… |
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| Automatic serial port monitoring for Weight Scale Integration |
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| Dynamic stock switching – print the same template in different rotations and on different media types |
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| INTEGRATED PRINTING |
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| Native 32 and 64-bit Windows service for printing integration (Automation Easy) |
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| Graphical integration builder for no-programing integration configuration |
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| 4 prebuilt connectors (File drop, Serial port, Database and TCP/IP socket) for integration with wide variety of systems and devices |
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| Workflow and business rules editor including 15+ actions for printing labels, data processing and network communication |
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| Dynamic print job preview during configuration |
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| Structured text data (CSV and fixed-width columns) processing |
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| NiceLabel JOB and XML format data processing |
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| Unstructured text and binary data processing |
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| Dedicated integration manager with extensive logging |
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| .NET API for programing integration |
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| PRINTING |
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| Native support for 4000+ label and marking devices |
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| Support for all laser/inkjet printers with a Windows driver |
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| Local and network printer support |
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| Speed optimization reuses repeating data instead of resending it |
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| Session print - combines multiple labels in a single print job for performance |
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| Color separation (for GHS labeling) |
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| Batch printing: header and tail labels |
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| Two-sided ("duplex") design and printing |
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| Advanced printer cutter control |
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| Store and Recall label templates from printer's memory |
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