Deployment

Overview

The role of Control Center is to define Loftware Web Printing users and to host their solution files.

Loftware Web Client is a thin client desktop application that enables you to locally print labels shared in Control Center. Web Client logs in to the Web Printing application in your Control Center, where administrators define your labels and printing solutions. When a user runs Web Client, the printing application (solution) opens.

The advantage of usingWeb Printing andWeb Client over printing from the Designer is that users can’t edit label designs, printing solutions, or databases. Users can print only approved labels with verified data.

Typically,Web Client prints labels that contain variable data. The selected label template takes the provided data and displays the label preview in aWeb Client printing form.

The application running in Web Client doesn’t communicate directly with the database. All communication is channeled through the Web Printing site on the server. When a database record is required, the application sends a request to the Web Printing site, which redirects it to the database server. The response travels in the opposite direction. In the same way, the Web Printing site records print events and stores the data in a database.