Loftware Cloud Essentials
Loftware Cloud Essentials
Adds label applications, web printing and centralised print history to cloud label design, for teams running up to 20 printers.
Cloud (SaaS)2–20 printers3 months print history97 included features
Comprehensive Specifications
At a Glance
Included Features
Fundamentals
| System-wide role based access control | ✓ |
| Straightforward system dashboard highlighting recent events | ✓ |
| Centralized database backed document storage | ✓ |
| Full content indexing for instant full-text search | ✓ |
| Preview labels with dynamic content | ✓ |
| Detailed label report with preview and export to XML | ✓ |
| Centralized system history of all relevant security events | ✓ |
| Advanced labeling analytics – Comprehensive reports on the labeling process by users, printers, labels, applications and label material used and errors | ✓ |
Quality Assurance And Traceability
| Centralized print history with previews of printed labels | ✓ |
| Automatic document version control – track history of a label version, when it was changed and who changed it | ✓ |
| Restore a previous version to current version | ✓ |
| View a previous version without overwriting the current version | ✓ |
| Visual comparison of different labels, variations and revisions with highlighted differences | ✓ |
| De-commission a version without deleting the file | ✓ |
| Content management – create and manage label variants | ✓ |
| Multiple customizable approval workflows with email notifications to streamline approval process | One default workflow |
| Email notifications for approval workflows | ✓ |
| Service provide role dedicated to external users, e.g. Loftware vendor, external technical support members | ✓ |
Print Management
| Customizable email alerts for various system events (production errors, etc.) | ✓ |
Web Printing System
| Single click deployment of centrally controlled labelling applications business wide | ✓ |
| Works with simple labels or fully configured PowerForms applications | ✓ |
| Desktop class performance with minimum network traffic (client side processing) | ✓ |
| Self-service printer setup including settings (no server printer management needed) | ✓ |
| Print without internet connectivity (offline mode) | ✓ |
Integration System
| 64-bit Windows service for integration with a variety of business systems | ✓ |
| Graphical integration builder for no-programing integration configuration | ✓ |
| Dedicated integration manager with extensive logging | ✓ |
| File drop, Serial port, Database and TCP/IP connectors | ✓ |
| Structured text data (CSV and fixed-width columns) processing | ✓ |
| Unstructured text and binary data processing | ✓ |
| Number of actions available for creating workflows and business rules for printing labels, data processing, network communication and more | ✓ |
| Integrated PDF engine for optimized PDF document creation without 3rd party tools | ✓ |
| .NET API for programing integration | ✓ |
Label Template Design
| Label setup wizard for quick start with best printing quality and performance | ✓ |
| Text, barcodes, lines, boxes, circles, clip art, images and PDF files | ✓ |
| Reports/supply chain documents (delivery notes, pick lists,…) | ✓ |
| Print objects in reverse/negative: white on black | ✓ |
| Windows system and built-in printer fonts support | ✓ |
| Rich text object including powerful editor with support for tables and more | ✓ |
| Fit-text-to-box (dynamic point size) | ✓ |
| Wrap-text-to-shape (word-wrapping and text justification to non-rectangular shapes) | ✓ |
| Text on ellipse | ✓ |
| Extensive RFID support | ✓ |
| Object alignment tools with snap-to-objects and arbitrary rotation of all objects | ✓ |
| Relative object positioning and variable label length | ✓ |
| Library of ready-to-use international standards compliance label templates | ✓ |
| More than 70 linear and 2D barcode symbologies with support for printer-based barcodes | ✓ |
| Intuitive GS1 Application Identifier Data Source Wizard | ✓ |
| Automatic check digit calculation | ✓ |
| Place “human readable” text anywhere in relation to barcodes | ✓ |
| Customizable “human readable” character template | ✓ |
| Object printing based on dynamic data (business rules) | ✓ |
| Design Layers for advanced label design | ✓ |
| Unlimited undo and redo commands | ✓ |
| Format Painter to easily copy text format to other objects | ✓ |
| Label converter for BarTender and CODESOFT templates | ✓ |
Dynamic Data
| Single screen for straightforward management of dynamic data (Dynamic Data Manager) | ✓ |
| Keyboard or scanner input at print time | ✓ |
| Import data at print time | ✓ |
| Full serialization including support for printer-based serial numbers | ✓ |
| Date and Time fields sourced from PC or Printer | ✓ |
| Full database connectivity to almost any existing database | ✓ |
| Reusable connections to multiple databases and tables within the label or solution | ✓ |
| Edit database connected documents without accessible database (offline mode) | ✓ |
| Variable graphic fields including graphics sourced from database | ✓ |
| 10+ prebuilt functions for efficient data concatenation and processing | ✓ |
| VBScript and Python scripting for custom data processing | ✓ |
Application Builder
| Auto-built, all-in-one printing form with data entry controls and dynamic print job preview | ✓ |
| Customizable data-entry filters and error checking | ✓ |
| Print time database record selection on a single screen | ✓ |
| Responsive form design to fit different screen resolutions | ✓ |
| Design Layers for interactive form design | ✓ |
| Integrated no-programming graphical application builder for building efficient labelling solutions for controlled printing | ✓ |
| Fully configurable user experience with 15+ prebuilt user interface controls and support for multiple forms | ✓ |
| Workflow and business rules editor including 40+ actions for printing labels, database queries, integrations with scales, PLCs… | ✓ |
| Solution document type can contain multiple labels and forms for improved dynamic data management and portability | ✓ |
| Integrated PDF engine for optimized PDF document creation without 3rd party tools | ✓ |
| Support for multi-lingual user environment | ✓ |
| Interface and control peripheral devices, weight scales, PLCs… | ✓ |
| Display printer status within the printing form | ✓ |
Printing
| Native support for 5000+ label and marking devices | ✓ |
| Support for all laser/inkjet printers with a Windows driver | ✓ |
| Local and network printer support | ✓ |
| Speed optimization reuses repeating data instead of resending it | ✓ |
| Session print – combines multiple labels in a single print job for performance | ✓ |
| Color separation (for GHS labeling) | ✓ |
| Batch printing: header and tail labels | ✓ |
| Two-sided (“duplex”) design and printing | ✓ |
| Advanced printer cutter control | ✓ |
| Store and Recall label templates from printer’s memory | ✓ |
| Print PDF documents | ✓ |
Feature availability is taken from Loftware’s own product edition feature list. Features not included in this edition are not listed.
Available Subscriptions
All subscriptions require a minimum one-year term. Contact Century Systems for a quotation.
A Loftware Authorized Distributor
Century Systems is a Loftware Authorized Distributor and a Loftware Forward Partner, supplying and supporting the full Loftware and NiceLabel range.
Talk to Century Systems about which edition fits your printer count, your integration requirements and your compliance obligations.