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Designing Labels for Mobile Devices
The labeling software has support for mobile label printing from Windows Mobile devices. You can
design the label with the desktop labeling software and then export it to the Mobile device.
The pocket edition of labeling software is not as powerful as desktop edition and does not support
some features that are available in the desktop edition. You must be careful when designing the label
for Mobile device. If you select some unsupported feature, the label export is not possible.
Some examples of unsupported features:
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Majority of complex functions are not supported (Visual Basic scripting, User defined
check digit algorithms, HIBC, Lookup table, Link to file, etc.), but some are (Con-
catenate).
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Global variables are not supported.
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Variable graphics are not supported.
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Databases are not supported (but databases are supported on the form created in Power
Forms).
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Variable text objects formatted in Truetype fonts are not supported (you can use variable
Truetype fonts if you download them to the memory card in the printer)
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Advanced variable features are not available (prefix/suffix, advanced serialization,
remembering the last value used, formatting the date/time stamps, etc.)
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etc.
To find out if your label is compliant with the export limitations, do the following:
1. Save the label.
2. Select the command File -> Export -> Export to Pocket PC.
3. If your label complies with the limitations, the label is exported. The files with extensions
.PNL and .LVX will appear in the same folder, where your label is stored. You can copy
them to the Mobile device with the Microsoft ActiveSync.
If your label does not comply with the limitations, you will see the error dialog box that
will explain which unsupported feature you use on the label. Remove that feature and try
to export the label again.
For more information about the label design for Mobile devices refer to the white papers available
online.
Multicolor Printing
Some thermal printers support multicolor printing. They use multiple heads, each head for a ribbon of
a different color. The colors for each printer head are customizable and can be defined in the printer
driver. Each print head is assigned a color that matches the used ribbon. The same colors become
available in the labeling software. For multicolor printing to work you need to use the appropriate
NiceDriver.
Color palette synchronizes the available colors with settings in the printer driver. All colors you have
defined in the printer driver are retrieved in the labeling software and made available for color selec-
tion. Color palette, color selection dialog box and label setup dialog box all display only the available
colors from the printer. Each label element can then easily be assigned some of the available colors.
The element is then printed using that color. More than one color cannot be used with a single label
element.