2009 LabelVision 20/20 Review
One of the best available designers on the market would happen to be LabelVision 20/20 Standard, which almost became one of the top three. It is very compatible and adaptable with many products. The designer has almost every designing tool imaginable and free support for the first six months of use. There is the option to take part in seminars as well, but they come with a fee.
There has been the inclusion of sophisticated features with this barcode software. Some of these features include:
- Unicode compatibility
- Serialization
- Advanced field options
- Logging
- VBScript programming
- Custom menus
There are not as many fonts and language interfaces available as previous barcode software’s, but if you find that LabelVision includes the codes that you will require you may want to find out more information on this product.
Barcodes:
There are many barcodes that are made available with LabelVision. These can consist of:
- Linear
- 2D including several in this category
- UPC-A & EAN-13
- UPC-E
- EAN-8
- Codabar
- Data Matrix
- PDF 417
There is the support of RFID, but to get this option it is quite difficult to begin. Getting into contact with LabelVision support may be needed to get assistance with this format.
Compatibility:
There is astounding database and printer support included into LabelVision. You will be able to print on popular printers such as EasyCoder, thermal printers, and Windows based printers making almost all printers compatible with the software.
For the databases you will be able to link to and print with the ODBC or separate database tools. There is also support for Structured Query Language, Microsoft Access, dBase, Paradox, and Text files. There are some very unique additions into LabelVision, which include write back to the database ability and automatically printing which is based on the database tables. There are several others, but you’ll want to experience the surprise you’ll get when you discover them.
With only one interface being included into the design of LabelVision is does make it difficult for users who don’t actually speak English, but there is the option to include non-English information with customized menus and commands.
Label Designer:
There have been several inclusions into the design tool for LabelVision 20/20 that are usually required for astounding labels and barcodes. The program makes it easy to make label parameters, include images, make changes to text, add several items, and make both object and text fields. There is one item that hasn’t been included into the program, which is ellipses, or circles, which may be something you need but nothing too drastic to take away from the overall success of this program.
The serialization has not only been label based, but product based also making it that your products will have the unique numbers which can be tracked a lot easier with the individualism of each items tracking numbers.
The compliance tools have several samples of labels included as well as some symbols. You will have to option to save your work making it easier to have pre-made templates for further developments.
Ease of Use:
Overall, LabelVision 20/20 is very basic for use but quite intuitive to the users needs. Pulling objects that are throughout your system, making label fields, grouping objects, and all the other wonderful features are all very simplistic and great for new users to begin. After you had taken the time to look over LabelVision you will find everything quite simple and all the tools to be basic knowledge of use.
Help/Support:
For the first six months of your services you will have free support offered for your use if you are a licensed user. You will be able to contact the company through telephone or email as well look through the embedded support and tutorials for personal assistance. If you want to take your educational knowledge of LabelVision a little further you can enrol into one of their fee based training sessions that are available in Massachusetts. If necessary, you may even have the chance to have LabelVision schedule a training session at your site of business.
Purchasing Information:
If you are interested in purchasing LabelVision 20/20 software you will be able to go onto their web based site and purchase their software. Depending on the number of users and which version you would prefer will depend on the amount you will be paying. For one user to purchase the Standard version you will be looking at $499.00, but if you want to purchase for 50 users of the Standard version you will be looking at a price of $12,475.00 this does look like an outrageous price, but it is worth the money. All pricing is in US funds as well.
Summary:
Once you discover how to utilize LabelVision to its maximum potential you will discover it is a very well put together bar-coding tool. After you get a fair amount of knowledge on the software the program will become a great addition to your company’s system. It is simple to use and easy to design unique labels with every experience you take
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