Think about how you’re managing your label printers right now. Does this sound familiar? You have a fleet of print servers proxying traffic between your back-end systems (EMRs, ERPs, or label software) and your label printers. You’re overwhelmed with maintenance costs, vulnerabilities, and the overall hassle of print servers. You’re likely looking for a way out.
Now imagine overhauling your label printing setup with a centrally managed SaaS printing platform and eliminating your print servers. This would allow you to automate the deployment of your label printers without the use of scripts or GPOs, perform driver updates with a single click, and get rid of your drivers altogether.
Does that sound like an intimidating feat? It’s not. We’ll break down how simple it is.
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Centralized Label Printer Management
It’s time to simplify your label printing, but what does that look like? Vasion makes this process as seamless as possible. If you already have an inventory list of all your label printers and their IPs, you can automatically import that list into the Admin Console and start managing your printers from one place immediately. Don’t have a list? No worries–just import all of your label printers and drivers automatically from your print server. Using the PrinterLogic client, you now have full control to deploy your newly imported printers and drivers to all of your users, workstations, and networks.
From there, the printing experience for your end users remains exactly the same. Vasion simply facilitates the management and installation of your printers, but doesn’t interfere with the feel of printing.
Connection to Back-End Systems
Yes, you heard that right–no more drivers. Vasion Output Automation provides a completely driverless printing experience from your back-end systems, taking documents built in those systems and sending them to the label printer. When I say “back-end printing,” I mean printing that originates from a system rather than a user. These are your medical record systems (EMRs), like Epic, resource planning systems (ERPs), like SAP–even the homegrown systems from your own organization. We also offer an API Print Service that allows you to integrate Output Automation with any system that you’re currently using.
Conversion to Label Print-Ready File Formats
But how does Output Automation print without drivers? When a job is received, our Output Automation service will automatically convert the documents originating from your back-end systems to a print-ready format for your label printers. Output Automation converts PDFs, PNGs, text files, and any other common format for that matter automatically to the Zebra Print Language (ZPL). Or if your documents are already in a label print-ready format, we have a passthrough method that accounts for that, supporting any label printers in your fleet, like Zebra, TSC, or Citizen, without issue.
Automate All Your Business Processes with Vasion
In regards to label printing specifically, there isn’t much to say, it just works! The best part is that the Vasion Output Automation offers much more, which includes:
- Rules & Routing
- Output Automation Console
- Advanced Print Reporting
- Off-Network Printing (available in our Advanced Security Bundle)
- And much more!
Vasion is an industry-leading print management solution with a comprehensive business process automation platform. Vasion has a long history of eliminating print servers, scripts, and GPOs by deploying an OS-agnostic client to all of your workstations. These clients give you a pulse on your entire printing environment, allowing you to centrally manage your printers and drivers from a single web page.