Label Services Manager
The primary focus of Labeling is compliance with Mil-Std-129 and Fed-Std-123, along with rudimentary support for Mil-Std-130. The labels supported are highly constrained by these standards, minimizing the need for Labeling offer label design capabilities.
MIL-Comply supports highly specialized container label printing and UID part marking through its Label Services capability. This allows users to design their own label formats or support specialized printers while still exploiting the compliance data maintained by MIL-Comply.
Label Services are somewhat transparent to users, made available as formats in the Label Format Menu along side the formats maintained by Labeling.
Label Services Print Group
There are two components of the Label Services, formats defined for other printers and software, and the channels by which label data is delivered to them. When a Label Service is selected for a label job the print dialog involved will change slightly to display the Label Service format, with its service channel in place of Label Stock.
How Label Services Work
Label Services are designed to be transparent to the user, operating just like intrinsic Labeling formats. When labels are printed to a Label Service format the data which would normally be translated into a supported printer language and sent to the printer's SPOOL. Instead, this same data is written to a file and sent to the printer or label design software in the manner defined by the Label Services Format definition and its associated Service Channel.
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