Create GS1 Labels With Label Commander

GS1(formerly known as:EAN-UCC) standard barcodes are increasely used in health systems, retail sectors, food services, logistics & transportation industry around the world.

As an advanced barcode label software, Label Commander can help you create different kinds of GS1 barcode labels with minimum effort. Currently Label Commander supports GS1-128 and GS1 QR code and more standards will be added in the coming versions.

Here is a how-to guide of creating a SSCC-18 label (Serial Shipping Container Code), Serial Shipping Container Code is a label standard maintaned by GS1, more GS1 label samples can be found in the template library of Label Commander.

Click on "Create New Project" button on the main window of Label Commander.
Select "Create from template". On category section, select "Serial Shipping Container Code".
Select the template SSCC-18 on the list and click "Next" button to finish project creation.
Go to label designer from the main window, select the project just created.
On the editing area of the Label Designer, there is a GS1-128 barcode located in the middle of the design, to edit the content or other properties of the barcode, click on the barcode element and the properties of the element will appears on the right side of the window, to edit the content, click "Edit Content" button and a Edit dialog will show up, you may edit the GS1 formated data on this dialog. A GS1 barcode is able to contain multi-sections of data, each section contains an application identifier and a line of data, the AI is used to indicate the type, format, length of data. Label Commander provides full supports for GS1 specifications. on the data edit dialog, you may both use static data and variable data as GS1 data. to add database content click "Add Database Fields", to add print-time variable data click "Add Print-time Variables" button.


Addtional info about VDP(Variable Data Printing)
Label Commander users VDP technology for label printing. In an element's content, a string surrounded by a field block <% %> represents a database field, and a string surrounded by <# #> represents a print-time variable.(i.e. <%ID%> represents the database field named ID)
A database field is a variable value. while printing the software will replace the field block with content from database. To edit the database content, you may use the Database Management feature.
A print-time variable is a variable that require users to input data, like database field, those data can be merged into design while printing but unlike database fields, the data of print-time variable will not be saved persistently and only available while printing.