What if your thermal label printer could…
> Receive data directly from a barcode scanner, keyboard, weight scale, or other devices?
> Process data and manipulate label format variables independently?
> Interact with your host database or ERP system?
> Read and write data to and from a printer-resident look-up table?
You Can!
Datamax has added a new, simpler MCL based application development tool for intelligent printing – 123 Print. For stand-alone printer based data collection applications, that do not require remote host connectivity, 123 Print provides an easy, graphical user interface for assembling powerful applications for your Datamax printer. Like MCL-Designer, 123 Print supports the connection of serial devices like bar code scanners, keyboards, and weight scales to Datamax MCL enabled printers for collecting data and interacting with the 123 Print MCL application.
An MCL-enabled Datamax printer becomes an intelligent printer with the ability to accept input from devices such as barcode scanners, weigh scales, full-size QWERTY keyboards, or other peripherals. The printer-resident MCL application can then process received data and perform any number of resulting functions such as updating a remote database, updating a printer-resident lookup table, prompting the Datamax printer operator to enter additional data on an attached keyboard, or last but not least – output a barcode label!
In instances where it is not desirable to have a personal computer host a data collection application (security concerns, maintenance concerns, cost of ownership, etc.) or to control a label printing process, and a thermal label printer is required as part of the solution, an MCL-enabled Datamax printer can serve as both application host and thermal barcode label printer. Efficiencies can be gained through increased application stability, security, ability to easily modify the application, and expenses saved through the absence of PC placement and ongoing maintenance.
To learn more about intelligent printing download our White Paper!
