— The advanced label designer for professional bar code and RFID labeling. Includes complete database support, user and document security and integration options. A wide range of features and options makes this a powerful, but easy-to-use tool for any labeling requirement.

Main features ...
• Includes all features of NiceLabel Express
• NicePrintQueue: The print job manager module
• NiceData: Database management module
• NiceMemMaster: Font and graphics download utility
• Complete database connectivity
• Visual Basic scripting
• Specialized bar code wizard for EAN.UCC 128 standard
• RFID smart label interface
• ActiveX programming interface

Powerful Label Design Features — Powerful label design through a standard and straightforward user environment

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By making use of a full-featured set of label design Wizards, even beginners are able to create labels quickly and easily. Any label layout can be designed by combining Windows and printer fonts, bar codes, drawing elements and graphics files. Flexible design tools, presented in a user interface that conforms to the latest Windows standards, help users create labels accurately and quickly. Labels can include a wide range of variable fields such as prompted values, serialized fields and date and time stamps.

When working with longer variable fields, usually from a database, users will value the powerful paragraph text object with a Best Fit option, variable label lenght and total text alignment control. Advanced users will appreciate Label Inspector, which gives the user complete control over one or more selected elements at the same time.

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Bar Code and Compliance Labeling Support
NiceLabel products provide support for all industry-standard bar codes, including 2-D. With multiple options for check-digit calculation, any possible requirement can be supported.

Users are often confronted with particular customer or industry-specific (chemical, automotive, etc.) compliance requirements. NiceLabel provides pre-designed templates and performs automatic bar code validation control. Thanks to leading support for all the latest Automatic Identification standards and emerging Radio Frequency tags, all current or future compliance issues are addressed worry free.

RFID Smart Label Design and Print — Streamline the process of RFID tag programming by combining the process with label printing. NiceLabel allows easy configuration of RFID tag data structuring and printing.

NiceLabel Pro enables users to program RFID smart labels as it prints a traditional label. The simple user interface allows the designer to use the same data that is printed on top of the label to be programmed to the RF tag as it passes beneath the print head.

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Powerful Data Processing Options — String, algorithmic and other functions are always available

Additional data manipulation is often required during label printing. Linked fields, advanced serialization options and arithmetical functions are just a few of the many special data-processing features available in NiceLabel. Advanced users will welcome the Visual Basic Scripting support, allowing them to perform almost completely customized label data control.

Comprehensive Database Support — Manual record selection is just one of the database data retrieval options

A user-friendly Database Wizard is available to guide beginners quickly and easily through standard operations such as manual record selection or complete database printing.

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Advanced users can take advantage of a built-in data query builder or write their own SQL commands. In addition to the standard support for text files, common database types and ODBC drivers, high-performance native drivers are also available for enterprise databases (Oracle, MS SQL Server, AS/400, Informix, etc.) where increased data extraction speed is important.

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Advanced Printing Control — You can compare this module with the Windows spooler; however, the NicePrintQueue offers more control over network printers and more functionality.

NicePrintQueue is a print job manager module that allows you to check the real-time status of all network and local printers you use. Even more, you can move your print jobs between printers with simple drag-and-drop action and print your labels on other available printers.

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NicePrintQueue offers you the following benefits:

• Complete control over the printing process
• See all installed printers and their status
• See all print jobs and their status
• Move print jobs from one printer to another with drag-and-drop action
• Even among thermal printers of different brands

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A Wealth of Integration Options — The label printing process must often be thoroughly integrated with enterprise applications such as ERP, WMS, Microsoft Office, inventory management software and many others. NiceLabel excels at seamless integration, with a variety of options available to meet the requirements of any system.

• Command Files and Command Line Options — A set of special NiceLabel commands make it possible to automate label printing from other applications using "job files" or command line options.
  
• ActiveX (Automation) Programming Interface — Programming tools provide a good opportunity to completely control the label printing process from the user's custom Windows application. Through a rich ActiveX programming interface, users are given numerous functions for opening and changing labels, specifying label data and printing to a selected printer. When NiceLabel is controlled through other programs, it performs as a print-engine, completely transparent to the printer operator.

Password Protection and Log File Options — If necessary, a labeling administrator can restrict access to the label printing applications by defining user lists with different levels of user rights. A customizable print logging function can be enabled as well, to record label printing reports.

NiceLabel Pro is available in the following editions:
* NiceLabel Pro, full-featured labeling software
* NiceLabel Pro Print Only, print only edition

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— A complete software solution for any type of label design and printing requirements.

With a special print-only module and custom data-entry form design, NiceLabel Suite provides for simplified, error free label production. Custom printing applications can be extended beyond the desktop to mobile devices. Robust, non-programming connectivity options allow the user to integrate labeling into any environment, from software applications to various hardware devices without changes to a host application.

NiceLabel Suite includes NiceLabel Pro - full-featured Label Design Software.

Main features ...
• All features of NiceLabel Pro, plus
• NiceForm: labeling application generation for desktop and mobile environments
• NicePrint: easy to use print only application
• NiceWatch: centralized label printing server for automating enterprise-wide label printing
• NiceData: database management and creation tool
• NicePrintQueue: the print job manager module
• NiceMemMaster: font and graphic download utility for thermal printers
• Pocket NiceLabel: The label printing software for Windows CE mobile devices
• SAP R/3 export using native ITF format files

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NiceForm—Custom Data-Entry Forms for Increased Reliability and Productivity

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Too many features can cause label printing operators to make errors. NiceForm, a generator of customizable forms, provides a simpler interface while keeping many advanced features, such as connectivity to databases, label preview and linked forms. The generated forms are used as stand-alone Windows applications and require no additional training to master.

Custom label printing applications have never been more available. NiceForm offers a visual design of data-entry application for particular label layout. It includes:

• Authentic print preview
• Database tables
• Multiple screen applications
• Pre-defined values and data control
• Optional label and printer type selection
• Optional VB Scripting for advanced programming control
• Distributed printing using NiceWatch print server

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NicePrint—Simple label printing in print-only enviroment
- Simplfy your printing process to the minimum
- Minimize all risks for printing labels with the wrong or corrupted data
- Save money and time spent on the software education for label printing operators

Printing pre-designed labels is an easy task with NicePrint—a simple and efficient printing application that provides a pre-designed NiceForm type application. Create labels once and print them anywhere on the network with NicePrint.

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Quick label printing application NicePrint enables label printing in seconds:

• Extremely easy to use
• Quick acces to printing tasks
• No label designing skills needed

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NiceWatch—Label Printing from any Software, any Platform
At times automated printing is required in a multi-operating system environment (Unix, AS/400, Host, etc.) or complex application environments (ERP, WMS, etc.), where it is not possible to write program code using Automation commands. Deploying NiceWatch, a powerful data detection module, provides an affordable solution in these situations that acts as middle-ware on a Windows-based PC.

Main Characteristics:

• Enable printing from other local or remote applications running within the network
• Trigger label printing with simple file drop on a shared disk (including data or commands)
• Connect with COM port devices (scale, barcode reader) using monitoring or polling
• Internet printing (e-mail, TCP/IP sockets)
• Data filtering (use existing reports, printer command files, etc.)
• Optional VB Scripting for advanced programming control
• Could run as a service (no user login required) on Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista

Data Detection
NiceWatch is an event-driven application capable of monitoring and detecting data in many different formats to trigger the start of label production.

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The standard scenario involves writing text files or exporting databases from an ERP system or other application to a shared network drive. Other trigger options include communication from serial port devices (bar code reader, scale, etc.) and monitoring POP3 mail accounts. The TCP/IP trigger option allows you to accept information via TCP/IP ports from other computers or devices on the network.

If your business process requires multi-threaded or high-volume printing solution we recommend the use of NiceWatch Enterprise edition.

Cross application and platform printing utilizing the data-detection module
Should the incoming data be in a non-structured format (reports, printer command files, serial port and TCP/IP data, etc.), there are many ways to process it. NiceWatch provides numerous filters to properly extract data for label printing, leaving the existing application entirely unmodified.

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NiceData—Database Management
A powerful database manager, NiceData allows the user to create and edit database tables and import data from text files to database tables. Maintaining a customer or product database has never been easier.

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Manage product databases with ease and confidence
With NiceData you will be easily able to:

• Create and maintain database with articles, suppliers, customers, etc.
• Create new tables and select indexes for faster search (Microsoft Access, dBase, Paradox)
• Browse and edit tables (any ODBC database)
• Import data from text files into the tables

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NicePrintQueue—The Print Job Manager Module
NicePrintQueue is a print job manager module that allows you to check the real-time status of all network and local printers you use.

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Take control of your printers
NicePrintQueue offers you the following benefits:

• Complete control over the printing process
• See all installed printers and their status
• See all print jobs and their status
• Move print jobs from one printer to another with drag-and-drop action
• Manages jobs among thermal printers of different brands

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NiceMemMaster—Download Graphics and True Type Fonts for Faster Print-Out
NiceMemMaster is used to download TrueType fonts and graphics to a printer's internal memory. This boosts printing performance from NiceLabel and allows any other application to use selected fonts and graphics.

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With the NiceMemMaster you will have the power to:

• Improve printing speed on thermal transfer printers
• Download True Type fonts and graphics to printer’s internal memory (memory cards)
• Print downloaded fonts/graphics from platforms which normally don’t support such printing (UNIX, VMS, etc.)
• Supported printers: Avery/Novexx, CAB, Datamax, Intermec/UBI, MPH, SATO, Printronix, TEC, Zebra and others

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Pocket NiceLabel—Pocket NiceLabel enables Windows CE compatible computers and terminals to print barcode labels on any type of thermal printer that is supported by the NiceLabel printer drivers.
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Native SAP R/3 Printing—NiceLabel label design formats can be exported to SAP Script compatible files and uploaded to an SAP R/3 system. The labels are then printed from the SAP application without any further interaction with NiceLabel.
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Leading Support for Non-Windows Platforms and Stand-Alone Printing
In addition to the existing integration possibilities, NiceLabel can also be used as a label design tool for many stand-alone printing solutions, which do not require an active PC computer present at print time. The label templates must be designed and prepared in advance. When they are transferred to the devices with stand-alone capability, the complete label printing process runs autonomously.

• Printers capable of stand-alone operation take advantage of printers capable of off-line printing by exporting label templates to their internal memory.

• Smart keyboard—A special keyboard, designed to store label templates and enable data prompting, allows a user to print off-line using almost any thermal transfer printer.

NiceLabel Suite Editions—NiceLabel Suite is available in the following editions:

• NiceLabel Suite, the complete label printing software solution
• NiceLabel Suite with Network licensing
• NiceLabel Suite Print Only, print only edition

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