dLSoft Labels Online service

This service generates barcode labels The labels are arranged on an A4 or Letter size page for printing from a web browser. If you are not a subscriber the service will generate defaced images.

Enter Labels Online

To use our services as a subscriber you need a password from dLSoft, which is sent to you via e-mail. The password enables you to use any of our online services during the period of your subscription. Before subscribing you should check that you can access the trial service, which generates defaced barcode labels.

Subscription information

Please ensure that you can use the service and print labels on your printer before subscribing.

To subscribe you can use our order form or just Fax or e-mail your details to:

DL Technology Ltd. 
Fax: 0870 803 2312  International: (+44) 208 559 0178
e-mail: dLSoft@dLSoft .com

Be sure to include the following information:

•  Your name
•   Your e-mail address
•   The length of subscription required (1 month or 12 months)
•   Your credit card type, number, security code*, start date and expiry date (& Issue no. for Switch cards)
•   The address and postcode/zipcode of the registered card holder (required for authorisation purposes)
•   Incomplete information will prevent us from processing your subscription

*For most card issuers your security code is a three digit code on the signature strip; for American Express cards its a four digit code on the front of the card.

Your password will be e-mailed to you.

Prices

•    Subscription for 1 month: 20.00 UK pounds (including VAT/TVA at current UK rate)
•   Subscription for 12 months: 100.00 UK pounds (including VAT/TVA at current UK rate)

[At the time of writing a 20.00 UK pounds is approximately US$ 30.00]

Subscriptions expire at the end of the subscription period; to renew a subscription please e-mail dLSoft@dLSoft.com

Subscribers to Labels Online also have access to the Barcodes Online service

[VAT/TVA is charged on all subscriptions. A VAT receipt will be sent if requested]
 

Frequently Asked Questions

Retail Barcode numbers

For use on retail products you cannot just invent the numbers. You must register with your national article numbering body (GS1UK in the UK, the GS1US in the USA) to obtain a company code number and a range of product code numbers. Together these numbers form Global Trade Item Numbers (GTIN) which form the data for the barcodes. Without these numbers your barcodes will not be recognised when you products are scanned at a retail outlet. Furthermore you will probably need to use either EAN (in Europe), JAN (in Japan) or UPC (in the USA) barcode types for retail products, and, if appropriate, you may need to use Code 128 or EAN 128 barcodes on boxes containing multiple items.
For contact points in the UK see GS1UK or for most other countries see GS1

Barcode Sizes

If you are creating barcodes for use in a retail environment (eg. GS1/EAN-13 or UPC-A) then you should also consider the size of the barcode. The recommended barcode sizes page provide the sizes you would use for creating the barcode at 100% of the nominal size recommended by GS1. GS1 typically permits the size the range between 80 - 200% of this nominal size, and that means when both the height and the width of the image vary by the same proportion. If you need to truncate the barcode to fit on small packaging you are advised to check that the resellers of your products find this acceptable (in our experience many will, but some won't!)

The following extract from the GS1 specifications explains the reason for this:

“Truncation of a barcode symbol is the reduction of the barcode symbol height relative to the width. Truncation is not recommended because it destroys the ability of a symbol to be scanned omni-directionally at the point of sale. A truncated symbol can only be scanned when the trade item is oriented in particular directions across the scanning beam. Truncation therefore reduces checkout efficiency. The more the height is reduce the more critical becomes the alignment of the symbol across the scanning beam. Truncation should be avoided unless absolutely necessary, for example, when printing on a highly curved surface, and then the maximum height should be printed.”