Understand how printing price labels work

Price labels are important to have on your products for many reasons. Some of the most obvious ones are that the customer can see the price of the product and that the store personnel have to be able to scan the product to sell it in the POS, and so that the stock level I also adjusted accordingly.

In this article, you will learn more about how the printing of price labels works.

To print price labels from Front Systems you need the following prerequisites:

• A barcode printer approved by Front Systems, to support our price label print layout. It can either be an RFID printer, or a barcode printer, depending on your stock settings and setup.
• A Front Systems POS with connection to the internet, and also user access, and a role that allows your user to print price labels.

Printing agent

The printing agent must be set up on the store's network and internet connection. The print agent comes in a form of a Raspberry Pi box that needs to be connected to a power socket and to the internet with a LAN connection/RJ-45 socket.

This printing agent receives commands from the Front Systems Portal (BackOffice) and sends the print signal to the designated printer. This means that wherever you are located, you can log in to the Portal and print out price labels from the printer that is connected to the print agent (given that the print agent show as active under Admin --> Print Agent in Portal).

Printers

Network printers (LAN)

The prints agent continuously scans the network for available network printers that are connected to the same network as the print agent. When the print agent finds 

When the print agent finds one for several printers on the network, it will register the printer under Admin --> Printers in Portal. 

The following printers will automatically get registered under Admin --> Printers if they are found on the network:

• TSC TDP 225 (Barcode label printer)
• SATO CL4NX (RFID label printer)

The printers will get the same name that is registered by the manufacturer of the printer.