Installing and activating Desktop Designer

Use Desktop Designer to design, edit, and print your labels. In Desktop Designer, you can drag and drop text, barcodes, and picture objects onto your label templates and connect your objects with the data you already use.

Important

To print and see your printers in Control Center, you must connect your Desktop Designer to Control Center.

After you have successfully activated your product, do the following tasks:

  1. Downloading and installing Desktop Designer
  2. Activating Desktop Designer and connecting to Loftware Cloud

Downloading and installing Desktop Designer

Install Desktop Designer on the computer your printers are connected to.

  1. In Control Center, go to your Dashboard > Download Software section, and click Designer & Automation.

  2. When your download completes, go to the Downloads folder on your computer and run Loftware installation (.exe) file.

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  3. Complete the installation wizard steps. When the installation completes, activate Desktop Designer.

Activating Desktop Designer and connecting to Loftware Cloud

  1. Run Desktop Designer on your computer.
  2. The Sign in window opens. Click Sign in.

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    Note

    If you accidentally change or delete text in the edit field, your activation will fail.

  3. Your browser opens automatically. Sign in to Loftware Cloud.

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  4. When you sign in, return to Desktop Designer.

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  5. Your activation is complete. Click OK.

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When your activation completes, Desktop Designer opens automatically.

Desktop Designer is now installed and activated, connected to Loftware Cloud, and you can see your printers in Control Center.

Next, see Test printing in Control Center