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Improve labelling productivity, accuracy and reduce your costs with SATO Application Enabled Printing (AEP)
Discover the beauty of powerful on-board intelligence with Application Enabled Printing (AEP). Simplify the labelling process of your customers with the ability to customise printer operations, significantly reducing costs and improving operational efficiency.
AEP allows for tailor-made labelling applications including PC-less printing, direct connection of peripherals such as keyboards, scanners and scales for data input.
About AEP
What is AEP?
Customer Benefits
PC-less - Eliminates need for separate printers & PCs, with no third-party software for OS & middleware, no licenses required & easier update roll out
Perfect fit - Ideal for areas where space is minimal, or where the environment is unsuitable for a PC
Peripheral device connection - Printer can process info internally and link to devices such as scanners, weighing scales, thermometers and PLC
Reduce total cost of ownership - Reduces business downtime and decreases system maintenance with less recurring costs
Onboard intelligence - Decisions are made by printer and not by unqualified staff
Improves the labelling process - Easy and intuitive labelling process that improves efficiency and productivity, while minimising the risk for human errors
Cloud enablement - Connect the printer directly to IT and cloud systems
Direct connectivity to IT and cloud systems - Reduces system complexity meaning less things can go wrong and makes troubleshooting easier
AEP Supported SATO Printers
CL4NX Plus
Best-in-class 4" thermal industrial printer
CL6NX Plus
A pioneering 6" thermal industrial printer
S84NX
Versatile 4-inch print engine for high-volume print and apply labelling
S86NX
Versatile 6-inch print engine for high-volume print and apply labelling
Print Method
Direct Thermal / Thermal Transfer
Direct Thermal / Thermal Transfer
Direct Thermal/Thermal Transfer Direct Thermal Only
Direct Thermal/Thermal Transfer Direct Thermal Only
USB-A x 3, USB-B, LAN, NFC, Bluetooth (option), WLAN (option)
USB-A x 2 , USB-B, LAN, RS232-C (option), NFC, Bluetooth (option), WLAN (option)
USB, NFC, Bluetooth, WLAN
Specifications
Optional battery mount kit, cradle kit and wall mount kit
Optional HF & UHF RFID,
PDF Direct Print
Optional 1 Bay and 4 Bay charging cradles for vehicles, standard and heavy duty carry cases
AEP Case Studies
1. Manufacturer (Automotive) - Versatile Label Printing from PLC
Challenges: Tedious to perform label printing by integrating Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) as it takes time for engineers to learn printer programming languages, maintain individual printer programming code for different label formatting. Solution: AEP solution with CL4NX printer to simplify label printing.
Save label templates in printer so that only variable data need to be sent from PLC (as comma-separated files) for label printing.
2. Manufacturer - RFID Data Logging
Challenges: Too time-consuming to retrieve tag data (e.g. tag ID, EPS) manually.
Want to protect product and prevent counterfeiting. Solution: SATO AEP can make it simpler and more efficient as SATO printer can print and encode RFID labels while creating a CSV log all on its own without using a PC.
3. Food Retail - Easy & Efficient Food Labelling
Challenges: Difficult to manage different equipment for printing & store operations in limited space.
Headquarter updates label data across all outlets manually which is prone to human error. Solution: AEP solution with FX3-LX printer and SATO App Storage cloud-based data management service.
FX3-LX occupies a small footprint & is intuitive for users to print various types of product labels.
With SATO App Storage, headquarter can update data across all outlets instantly.
4. All Industries - Stress-free Helpdesk Operation
Challenges: Printer and system information for diagnosis and hot spare part replacement takes 3 to 5 days to collect in a typical multi-vendor and multi-system environment. For users that are unfamiliar with printer, it may take time to find the required information. Solution: SATO's printer screen customisation enables users to immediately have access to printer information and provides a true company branded interface for end users.
Update database table and bitmap graphic data in your label design AEP package using AEP Utility. You can also deploy the updated AEP package to SATO AEP-enabled smart printers or save as an AEP package file.
AEP Works offers an easy graphical user interface for label design, database table management, function development and managing fonts and graphics. This application is available for SATO certified partners.