Advanced Labeling Software
CQL Pro is AstroNova’s advanced labeling software that allows users to easily design and print custom labels for color and monochrome label printers. Complete with Label Designer and Print Manager, users can create and edit label designs, design printer profiles, and easily monitor or create print jobs across any label printer model.
Design, Manage and Print Custom Labels
CQL Pro is AstroNova’s advanced labeling software that allows users to easily design and print custom labels for color and monochrome label printers. Complete with Label Designer and Print Manager, users can create and edit label designs, design printer profiles, and easily monitor or create print jobs across any label printer model.
Key Features
CQL Pro features native support for AstroNova’s QuickLabel printer models, enabling enhanced printer functionality and printing efficiency.
CQL Pro’s intuitive user interface makes it simple to create and access your label files while printing directly to your printer.
Easily create information-rich labels by choosing from a wide range of customizable text fields, graphic images, and barcodes — all with a live preview.
Label Designer
- Quickly design or edit existing labels with a wide range of options for text, barcode, graphics/logos and variable data in Label Designer.
- Create or open multiple labels to generate variations quickly.
- Gain flexible image handling for transparency, RGB or CMYK images, and overlap behavior (mask, invert, merge, and knockout).
- Easily import from a variety of image types including png, jpg, pdf, tiff, gif, etc.
- Expand flexible field data sources with linking options to an external database.
- Choose from a wide range of available barcodes with live data previews.
- Quickly access the Field Properties pane for rapid field customization.
- Effortlessly navigate design tools through new ribbon layout.
Print Manager
- Manage your entire printing workflow all from one place using Print Manager.
- Quickly print multiple jobs with different designs and varying quantities without interruption.
- Easily select, load, or create print queues with our new, intuitive drag and drop feature.
- Efficiently use new print job and printing management features, consolidated into a single location.
- Automatically collate print jobs, choosing queue quantities as needed.
- Instantly preview labels with live data before printing.
Printer Profile Manager
- Build profiles for each of your label printing systems in the Printer Profile Manager to harness the unique functionality of each printer.
- Easily set up printer profiles and label design parameters for each media configuration or type.
- Share printer profiles over a network over multiple printing workstations.
Additional Features
Label Converter
Easily convert label files and global counters from the legacy Custom QuickLabel Omni application to CQL Pro.
Job Monitoring
Clearly monitor in-progress print jobs and perform printer maintenance such as printhead cleanings for inkjet printers.
Easy-Access Launcher
Quickly access shortcuts to Label Designer, Print Manager, recent designs, print jobs, and other software components.
Why do you need labeling software?
A good labeling software can improve efficiency, which saves time and money by helping manage the combination of artwork and data that make up a label file.
With CQL Pro, artwork can exist in a variety of image types like png, jpg, pdf, tif, gif, etc. Data can be coming from a variety of data sources such as your company’s ERP or another external database. Also, add other common label elements, such as barcodes, QR codes, date of manufacture, expiration dates, lot codes, etc.
