Dataguard 3 Product Overview
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The safest way to label your products with Total control over printed content Safe and accurate label printing with DataGuard 3 Step-by-step print process Calculate all dates in a single-click Total control over what production can print No unauthorised access to label templates Train new production staff in minutes control label design and data with approve labels access with vector 6 Custom-built database Comprehensive label for managing and design software to create automatically filtering high-quality label product data templates for any printer One system for printing all your labels No need to use separate software, DataGuard 3 can print to both on-line and off-line printers including ICE Zodiac and pack wineglass picker round Markem-Imaje SmartDate coders. Print your pack labels, tray end cards, film, picker labels, SSCC labels all from one software program. In fact you can use DataGuard 3 with any printer that has a Windows driver. bag box end plu film Simplicity from start to finish With a step-by-step print process you have complete control over what can be printed. Production staff simply select what needs to be printed. 1 select 2 select customer category From a list of For example the type retailers and/or of fruit based on the supermarkets that product lines that have you supply been made active 3 select 4 select product line label to print Quickly choose the Where only correct product or for approved labels that longer lists search with have been setup can our new product search be chosen feature 5 select date 6 select for delivery variable data All dates on the label Such as the variety of will be calculated the product, its origin, instantly no matter size or whatever needs what type or format to be printed 7 select 8 preview printer and print Choose what line or See an accurate preview printer to send the print and check all data is job to and the quantity correct before sending of labels to print the print job Concentrate on packing products Ever spent too long looking for a label only to find it wasn’t the right version? You’re not the only one. Printing labels normally involves searching through files and folders for the correct version of the label to print, which is both time consuming and prone to error. DataGuard 3 stops all the guesswork as only labels that have been approved for a given product line can be used. Calculate all dates in a single-click DataGuard 3 removes all of the risks with manually typing dates with an automated process that calculates all dates on the label no matter what format they are in. select delivery date to customers’ depot all dates on label calculated pack dates best before dates in barcodes display until harvest dates use by Say goodbye to spreadsheets for SAINSBURYS TESCO checking what is the correct date code In recent years formatting dates on labels has become increasingly 27/04/15 complex. Supermarkets such as Tesco, Sainsburys and Asda use custom fonts with Sainsburys in particular using an irregular ALDI ICELAND format where the month changes between three and four characters. Aldi, Lidl and Netto use compound week number 0403 (0405C) 150 and day codes as well as basing their year on the ISO week date calendar and not the normal Gregorian calendar. Iceland and several wholesalers use Julian dates. Many retailers also like to ASDA GS1-128 BARCODES print not only display until and best before dates, but also pack dates and harvest dates. Even barcodes contain dates! With such 28 JUN 150427 complexity it is little wonder that printing the correct date and the correct date format often leads to mistakes. With the built-in date formatting language, DataGuard 3 can produce any possible PAULEYS SAINSBURYS date format no matter how complex, all while maintaining full automation. H185180 SATURDAY Control what dates can be selected Being able to automate dates is only useful if you can control which dates can be picked in the first place. Otherwise production staff could select any date from two weeks ago, to a year in the future. DataGuard 3 has several controls for setting limits on what dates can be used both globally and for individual product lines. The right controls at the right time DataGuard 3 helps production staff pick the right label stock and make printer-specific adjustments without access to the label template. Print preview with stock image and colour codes DataGuard shows production staff an accurate preview of the print job including the what information is going to be printed and an image of the label stock to use (see below for examples). This is especially useful when supermarkets use colour coded labels to indicate various details such as: • depot delivery day (Sainsburys); • whether a product is chilled or frozen (Co-operative); • washed or unwashed (Asda); • indicate different lines (Tesco). Colour codes are automated which means there is only a single template required. PACK LABELS SAINSBURYS TESCO SHAPED LABELS ASDA ALDI CO-OPERATIVE WAITROSE ↑ All images are screenshots taken from DataGuard 3 print preview Safely ensure print quality DataGuard 3 has unique print time controls built into the preview that allows production staff to safely adjust the print head temperature, print speed, print position (margins) and even flip the print direction 180 degrees without accessing either the underlying label template or printer driver. Works with on-line printers and coders With the transition to on-line printing, we have ensured DataGuard allows you to manage all your labelling requirements without any extra software. Print job names for on-line coders With on-line printing, each print job is selected from the touch screen control unit on the production line. DataGuard 3 allows production staff to give each print job a unique name so they can easily identify the correct print job on the control unit. print preview in dataguard select print job on-line Compatible with ICE Zodiac and Markem-Imaje SmartDate on-line coders DataGuard is compatible with both Markem-Imaje and ICE on-line coders no matter whether it is 53 mm or 107 mm, continuous or intermittent, single-lane or twin-lane. Simply connect the printers to your existing LAN network and if you have more than one line, markem-imaje the same print job can be re-sent immediately without having to smartdate x40 re-select the product or variable data. Production staff no longer have to transfer label templates using a USB memory stick, nor do they have to enter any variable data. After sending the complete print job from DataGuard they simply select the print job from the job list on the control unit. And as each print job can be uniquely titled, it is possible to queue print jobs for a day’s work all in one go. ice zodiac Total control over printed content We extended our philosophy for printing labels to managing product data with a custom-built database that makes it easy to manage what production staff can print. Manage your products, not your database DataGuard 3 uses a custom-built database for managing everything from product data, product origin information, product varieties, supplier codes, sizes and so on. The database makes use of forms that makes managing records much easier and less prone to errors as the source tables (where all the data is kept) do not need to edited. Forms also allow us to do smart things like use drop down selection boxes for repetitive data, so that managers can quickly select what they need and not worry about the spelling. Automatic filters for your data While being able to access all product data makes sense from a management point of view, it makes little sense from a production point of view. DataGuard 3 solves this by automatically filtering the product data, so that when production staff are printing, they see the filtered data and not everything. What’s more is we can customise the filtering to suit your business. For example if you have a variety that can only be used for a single retailer, it can be filtered so that only products for that retailer can use it. Product lines can be turned on and off Variety can be filtered by retailer and type of fruit UK growers can separated from Import growers Sizes can be filtered by type of fruit/vegetable in the database Clever data choices DataGuard 3 is smart and groups variables with shared content so that production staff only have to select a variable once. For example instead of typing the country of origin, county and supplier codes all separately, in DataGuard only the grower is chosen from a list. You’re in good hands Our team has over 40 years combined experience creating successful label systems for fresh produce companies from individual pack houses to marketing firms, importers and wholesalers. Pricing System setup DataGuard 3 is a package of three programs: Vector 6, DataGuard 3 We provide full setup and installation of your system including and Microsoft Access. The cost of your system will depend on the installation of the software, database and printer setup. The time scale of the system (essentially how many PCs) and the type of it takes to transition to a new system can often be overlooked as license required. The minimum license for Vector 6 is a single-user it takes a lot of mental effort to learn new software and what it professional which is best suited to smaller businesses that use a is capable of.