Barcode & Label is a label design and barcode printing app for Windows. It subscribes to elegantly simple user interface design principles and enables users to produce Address Labels, Inventory Tags, Price Labels, and Business Name Cards quickly and easily.
The app is bundled with over 900 industry label stock templates and 150 clip arts and generates commonly used barcodes via font technology. It also supports vector shapes such as rectangle, ellipse, line, and both static and dynamic text/barcode fields. Users will be able to retrieve addresses and contact information from the Microsoft People's app with just a few taps and have the information printed out in a snap.
Barcode & Label
Preview and Print Label
The app comes with capabilities such as Grid Snapping, Zooming, Rulers, Label Stock Customization, Undo/Redo, Objects Alignment, Multi-Objects Selection, and WYSIWYG user interfaces – features found only in industrial-strength desktop labeling software. Both the Inch and Centimeter unit systems are supported.
The app is capable of creating Code 39, Industrial 2 of 5, and POSTNET barcodes using fonts. Using fonts to create barcodes is well-known in the auto-id industry for creating barcodes of the highest quality that meet the strictest requirements of the specifications by ISO and GS1.
The app is designed to work on both tablet and desktop mode on Windows and supports users using either the touch or mouse input interface.
Barcode & Label is generally a one-screen app with a label design canvas at the center of the screen. Located on the left and upper part of the canvas are two rulers that are used to measure the size of the canvas in inches or centimeters.
To select an object, you can tap or click on an object. This tapping or clicking will also automatically de-select existing selected objects. Another way to select objects is to use a marquee.
Barcode & Label uses fonts to generate barcodes. A barcode font is a specially designed font that allows you to specify and generate barcodes with normal text characters. Printing barcodes using fonts is well-known in the auto-id industry for creating the highest quality barcodes.
Barcode & Label also supports labels with variable data. These are labels that contain data-linked objects that are prefilled with values only at print (or preview) time.
A Serialized Counter is a counter value that is set up to step over a set of numbers. For example, a value of 1 increment by 1 up to 10 will provide you with the following sequence:
1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10
A Serialized Counter is handy when you need to print inventory labels. For example, when you have an inventory of 100 items and will like to assign a unique number to each item for tracking purposes.
Barcode & Label supports the import of third party True Type fonts for use in designing labels. This enables the creation of stunningly beautiful labels that your customers will love. With this functionality, you can utilize fonts that you have previously purchased to improve your labels' look and feel.
The Label Wizard eases the tedious steps of label creation by importing data from a CSV file, Excel file, or Microsoft's People app and automatically generating Text objects that correspond to the file columns.
Besides printing through a standard Printer Driver, Barcode & Label supports printing natively with Zebra Printer Language (ZPL) through a Windows Generic Text Printer Driver. This enables better printing speed and higher quality barcodes on lower-resolution printers (203 DPI, 300 DPI).
This tutorial shows you how to turn on the Native Printing capabilities to optimize your label printout further.
Barcode & Label is designed to be elegantly simple through the extensive use of flyouts. A flyout is a lightweight UI that requires user interaction and can be dismissed by clicking or tapping it off. Most of the flyouts from Barcode & Label appear on the right-hand side of the display.
Useful Tips
You can create an object by selecting a Shape on the Toolbar below and then dragging your finger or mouse on the label.
You can double-tap or click on an object to bring up the Properties dialog.
You can use the Two-Finger drag to scroll a label when using a touch device.
You can use the Copy-and-Paste function to copy objects from the current label to a new label.
Barcode Fonts Engine Testimonials
I have used several bar code font applications over the past 20 years and found that ConnectCode is the cleanest solution I have found. It works perfectly with Crystal Reports and doesn't have any issues embedding the bar code fonts into a PDF.
–T.M. (BrassCraft)
ResMed is a signatory to GS1 so the support of these barcode formats is very important. I showed this to one of our IT staff and he commented that it was better than anything they had.
–Dr P.S. (ResMed Ltd)
We chose to use your product because it installed flawlessly into excel and we were able to document the creation process so that staff can produce the barcodes in 4 simple steps.
–Edgar (CTO - Record Guardian Inc.)
The font allows for the barcode to be consistantly sized and placed regardless of what data the initial page of the document uses to generate its code.
–Glyn Rowling (Amethyst Mailing)
