Cloud-enabled labeling

One of the biggest advantages of using the cloud for business continuity is that label data can be accessed from anywhere. This helps minimize downtime of critical business functions in the event of an outage, since employees can access data from virtually anywhere. Also, a reliable cloud service provider gives companies many ways to avoid data loss, including built-in redundancy, failover, backup, automatic logging, and monitoring – allowing for shorter recovery time compared with on-premises alternatives.

As a business, your main objective is to make a profit, and minimizing IT expenses helps your bottom line. With cloud-enabled labeling, you forgo the costs of purchasing or updating servers and hardware for setting up or maintaining your own data center. You also minimize the need for IT professionals to manage your servers and the electricity bill plus other costs that come with running an on-premise server. If reducing IT expenses is your number one goal, you can use a cloud-enabled labeling solution or cloud server that TEKLYNX assists you in managing.

With cloud technology, there’s no need to purchase on-premise systems, hardware, and individual software licenses, making it easy to redistribute resources to other initiatives. If you’re considering migrating aspects of your labeling to the cloud, get in touch so we can better understand your needs and discuss the best labeling software and hosting options for your business.

While it’s not an exhaustive list of ways we see our customers leveraging the cloud, these scenarios are common use cases where the organization could benefit from cloud-enabled and browser-based label printing:

• If you want to enable label printing for 10+ locations outside of your network. A browser-based label printing interface is ideal for companies that want to standardize label printing at multiple locations, but those locations are not all on the same network. Instead of having local installations of your labeling software on every single workstation across your entire organization, browser-based printing allows you to manage one or more web page label printing interfaces from one location that securely deploys to users across all facilities.
• If you have contract manufacturers and suppliers. Your enterprise labeling software can be leveraged outside of your business by allowing contract manufacturers and suppliers to print accurate labels via a customized browser-based label printing interface. With contract manufacturers and suppliers, the value-add is taking away their ability to print incorrect labels. You can quickly deploy label printing to contract manufacturers and suppliers, while still managing the process centrally.
• If you have a small IT department. Deploying your label printing system in the cloud takes the burden off internal resources. Centralized label management controls help system administrators coordinate licensing. System-wide settings can be defined in a single location and rolled out across your entire global organization. Browser-based access eliminates the need for individual workstation installations.

Deploying your browser-based label printing interface in the cloud is highly secure. In fact, cloud hosting can be more secure than on-premise hosting.

TEKLYNX label printing software supports over 4,000 thermal, thermal transfer, and inkjet printers with native printer drivers. Learn more about TEKLYNX native printer drivers.

Label files designed in CODESOFT will be automatically compatible with your cloud-enabled label printing system. Label files designed in LABELVIEW or LABEL MATRIX can be instantly converted to CODESOFT files, and therefore they will be compatible with your cloud-enabled label printing system.

For label files designed in any other application, the TEKLYNX professional services team is happy to assist with re-creating the labels in CODESOFT.