cablabel S3 Blog
You want to create your labels with cablabel S3, but you don’t know which version to choose?
In order to help you to make this decision based on your needs, here is a summary of the main differences and exclusive possibilities:
| cablabel S3 Lite | cablabel S3 Pro |
| Delivered with every printer | License per computer on request |
| Compatible with cab printers only |
Supports all printers detected and installed on Windows |
| Multiline texts | Additional text options: max width and hyphenation |
| – | Text box with various markups by keyword detection (e.g. allergens) |
| – | Character map wizard for inserting special characters |
| Raster graphics only of type bmp, jpg, tif, … |
Also vector graphics of type dxf, plt, svg, … |
| About 30 types of barcodes linear, 2D, GS1 and composite |
About 35 types of barcodes including the EAN 18/128 variants |
| – | Barcode wizard for creating GS1/EAN /UCC-128, FACT/MH10 and QR |
| – | Barcode verifier option |
| Prompt fields with free entry | Additional prompt field options: input mask and choice list |
| – | Wizard for creating compound prompts |
| Counters basic of type numeric and increment +/-1 |
Counters advanced of types alphanumeric and increment +/-n |
| – | Additional counter options: frequency, resetting and saving of the value |
| – | Date and time including offsets and wizards for creating the format |
| – | Formula: mathematical operations, manipulate strings, etc. |
| – | ABC basic compiler with code library |
| – | Variables: data sources with information about the label, the printer, the computer, etc. |
| – | Connection to: Access, Excel files, OLE DB, ODBC, ASCII databases, Database Connector in stand alone mode, SQLite in stand alone mode |
| – | JScript code viewer for an overview on the fly |
| – | Import of JScript files in LBL format |
| Saving only in STC format |
Also export to PDF format and PNG image |
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