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Welcome to NiceLabel Automation

NiceLabel Automation is an application that automates repetitive tasks. In most cases, you will be using it to integrate label printing processes into existing information systems, such as various business applications, production and packaging lines, distribution systems, and supply chains. With NiceLabel Automation, all applications across all divisions and locations in your company can print labels using authorized labels templates.

NiceLabel Automation helps you deploy and run an optimal business label printing system by synchronizing business events with label production. Automated printing without human interaction is by far the most effective way to remove user errors and to maximize performance.

Label printing automation using a trigger-based application revolves around the following three core processes:

Trigger

Triggers are a simple but powerful function that help automate your work. At its core, a trigger is a cause and effect of the statement: "If a monitored event happens, do something."

Here, we are talking about IF .. THEN processing. Triggers are good at handling repetitive events.

Automated label printing is triggered by a business operation. NiceLabel Automation is set to monitor a folder, file, or a communication port. If a business operation takes place, a file change or incoming data is detected. This triggers the label printing process.

Learn more about various Triggers:

  • File Trigger

  • Serial Port Trigger

  • Database Trigger

  • Scheduler Trigger

  • TCP/IP Server Trigger

  • TCP/IP Client Trigger

  • HTTP Trigger

  • Web Service Trigger

  • Cloud Trigger

Data Extraction and Placement

Once a trigger starts the printing, NiceLabel Automation extracts label data and inserts it into variable objects that are placed on a label.

Data extraction Filters support:

  • Structured text files

  • Unstructured text files

  • Various XML files

  • JSON files

Action Execution

After matching the data with variable objects on a label, NiceLabel Automation starts performing actions. A basic set of actions usually includes Open Label and Print Label to print the extracted data on a label. You can also send data to custom local or network file locations, Web servers, hardware devices, and much more.

There are more than 30 actions available. Together, they cover a vast majority of scenarios that are common in today's business environments.

Learn more about basic and advanced printing Actions.