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Visual label designer with real printer intelligence: native ZPL, Unicode printer fonts, SVG icon fonts, RFID elements, converters and 30+ symbologies - previewed exactly as the printer prints.

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Label Designer

A visual canvas with real printer intelligence

Design on a millimetre ruler with grid, snapping and zoom up to 300 %. Add text, barcodes, QR codes, GRF images, SVG icons, RFID tags and shapes - then push the exact same ZPL to your printer.

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ZPL modes - native printer fonts (^A…^FD), TrueType via ^GFA images, or literal ^A@@ / ^FB.
RFID element - EPC Class 1 Gen 2 tag with SGTIN-96 data structure; GTIN + serial → EPC hex encoder with decode roundtrip.
Data binding - bind fields to CSV / JSON columns via $field and test with a built-in JSON record editor.
Templates & teams - gallery with search and tag filter (adresse, artikel, chemie, preis, versand), 60-step undo/redo, groups, lock & hide, auto-save to localStorage.
Unicode fonts - own OFL font ZPLCloud (CJK, kana, Hangul, Vietnamese, Russian Cyrillic), Liberation Sans (Latin Extended, Greek, Cyrillic) and Droid fallback; TTF fonts are pushed to the printer as E:ZPLCLOUD.TTF.

Unicode printer fonts

Every script on the label - Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Cyrillic

Resident Zebra fonts stop at Latin-1. zplCloud ships its own Unicode font ZPLCloud (SIL OFL 1.1, derived from Noto Sans CJK and converted to TrueType for ZPL): 41,000+ code points - Latin-1, Vietnamese, Russian Cyrillic, basic Greek, all CJK ideographs, kana and Hangul - rendered server-side in the preview and pushed to the printer as E:ZPLCLOUD.TTF. The printer prints exactly what you saw.

One line of ZPL: ^A@N,60,60,E:ZPLCLOUD.TTF^FD日本語^FS with ^CI28 (UTF-8)
One font for all languages: ZPLCLOUD.TTF incl. 11,172 Hangul syllables - a single file, a single upload
Push once: the Printer Fonts tab uploads the TTF to selected printers - per fleet or per profile; Liberation Sans (OFL) adds Latin Extended, accented Greek and full Cyrillic

Rendered by the zplCloud engine with E:ZPLCLOUD.TTF - 812 × 406 dots, 203 dpi.

ZPL

Full ZPL freedom

We can do it all: fonts and graphics stored right on the printer, keeping payloads small. Everything is provisionable and manageable on your printers via our management tools - also per profile.

Anyone can send bulky PNG or PDF images with huge payloads to the printer. We can do that too - but we can also deliver performance when it comes to unique mass labels (e.g. RFID) that need to fly out of the printer.

SVG → TTF

Logos & icons as printer fonts

Mass bulk without the payload wall. Your logo and icons become one tiny TrueType font on the printer: upload the SVGs, we generate the TTF, push it once to exactly the printers you want - done. From then on every label carries a single glyph reference instead of kilobytes of graphics.

Your icon set, managed in zplCloud

1

Upload SVGs

Drop in your logo and icons - or build a new letter logo from a single letter.
2

We generate the font

Each icon becomes a glyph on a private Unicode code point (U+E000…). 3 glyphs ≈ 3 KB.
3

Update the printers - done

One click pushes the font to exactly the printers you select - per fleet or per profile. Every label that follows just works.

85× smaller - a 3 KB font uploaded once instead of ≈ 10.3 KB of graphics data in every single label
Built for mass bulk - 10,000 labels: ≈ 101 MB of GF data vs. ≈ 1.2 MB of text payload
Always current - icon changed? Update one font file, every label uses the new version immediately
Crisp & fast - vector outlines at any DPI (203 / 300 / 600), printed at text speed

Open the designer Blog: SVG to TTF

Available from Starter to Enterprise

Same icon, two ways

GRF image vs. TTF font

85× smaller

Payload per label	≈ 10,340 B	≈ 125 B
Upload	with every label	once · 3 KB
10,000 labels	≈ 101 MB	≈ 1.2 MB
Quality	fixed resolution	vector · any DPI
Print speed	graphics decoding	text speed

AB1.TTF · 3 KB · 3 glyphs

U+E000

U+E001

new letter logo

U+E000 · U+E001 · U+E002

Printer update

ZPL-3000

3 printers updated · 1 click

RFID / EPC

Item-level RFID, ready for production

Write RFID transponders straight from the designer: data format, memory bank, starting block and byte count, plus passwords and locks. EPC schemes such as SGTIN-96 are built from GTIN and serial number, ASCII and HEX work just as well - on ZPL and Fingerprint printers.

Only available for ZPL & Fingerprint printers.

Tag types & data formats

Eleven tag types from EPC Class 1 Gen 2 to ISO 18000-6B, written as ASCII, HEX or EPC - your choice ends up as ^RS and ^RFW in the ZPL.

EPC encoder in the designer

Build SGTIN-96 and friends from GTIN plus serial number and decode them again - no external tool, no guesswork.

Memory bank, block, bytes

Write into EPC, TID, user or reserved memory with a starting block and byte count - exactly what the transponder expects.

Passwords & locks

Set access and kill passwords, lock, unlock or protect banks and permanently lock memory sections (^RLM / ^RLB).

Data bindings & batch

Bind tag data to CSV or JSON columns like any other field - thousands of RFID labels in a single batch run.

ZPL & Fingerprint printers

RFID items render natively on ZPL and Fingerprint devices - no extra hardware, no middleware.

What the designer generates

^RS / ^RB / ^RFW / ^RL - generated by the designer

^XA
^RS8                         ; tag type: EPC Class 1 Gen 2
^RBSGTIN-96                  ; EPC scheme
^RFW,E,,,^FD3076215F0C5D974000000001^FS  ; write EPC memory
^RFW,A,1,8,U^FDL-2026-0042^FS      ; ASCII into user memory
^RFW,A,P^FD11112222,33334444^FS     ; passwords
^RLM,,,L,P                   ; lock EPC, protect user memory
^XZ

Plays well with your RFID ecosystem

Nedap Checkpoint Sensormatic Impinj R-PAC

Tags and EPCs generated by zplCloud integrate with the major EAS / RAIN RFID infrastructures.

Formats & symbologies

Every output format, every major symbology

Verified for correct ZPL output - from retail EAN/UPC to 2D codes and postal symbologies.

Output formats supported by zplCloud
Output format	Preview	Export
ZPL (native ^XA…^XZ)	✓	✓
PNG / PDF (multi-page) / SVG (vector)	✓	✓
Console project (ZIP with csproj + Program.cs)	-	✓
GRF printer graphic + EPC / RFID (SGTIN-96)	-	✓

Barcode symbologies supported by zplCloud
Group	Symbologies
2D	QRCode, DataMatrix, Pdf417, AztecCode, MaxiCode
Retail (EAN/UPC)	Ean13, Ean8, UpcA, UpcE
Linear	Code128, Code39, Code93, Code11, Code49, Codabar, Msi, Plessey, Industrial2of5
GS1 / Postal	Ean128 (GS1-128), Postnet, Planet

GS1 Application Identifiers (AI)

One data set, four GS1 codes

A GS1 code is not a symbology of its own – it is an agreement about the content. The same application identifiers – GTIN, batch, serial, date, weight – sit in GS1-128, GS1 DataMatrix, GS1 QR and GS1 DataBar, only packed differently. zplCloud keeps them as a list and handles the packing for you.

AI editor in the designer: pick the identifier, enter the value – length, character set, date and check digit are validated as you type.
Separators handled: after variable-length elements, never after the last one – exactly the mistake that breaks GS1 codes in practice.
Values from your data source: every identifier bound to its own column, from CSV, Excel, SQL or a stream.
Wizard: from the use case to a finished code – product passport, logistics label, pharmaceuticals or fresh food.

Digital Product Passport (DPP)

The EU Ecodesign Regulation introduces the product passport product group by product group, textiles first. Its data carrier is a GS1 QR Code with Digital Link – also called a Digital Link QR: an ordinary URL from which the checkout reads the GTIN and a phone opens a web page. No own domain needed – your company domain plus the /gs1 subpath is enough.

GS1 QR and the product passport All GS1 tools Ready-made label template

GS1 QR Code Tool ↗

https://…/gs1/01/04006381333931/10/L-2026-0417

GS1-128 Tool ↗

(00)340123450000000017(02)04006381333931(37)24

GS1 DataMatrix Tool ↗

(01)04006381333931(17)271231(10)L-2026-0417

GS1 DataBar Expanded Tool ↗

(01)04006381333931(3103)001250(15)270930

All features

The complete label workflow toolkit

Designer, converters, print control, batch, webhooks, push and API - everything in one platform. New features are marked with NEW.

Designer

Drag & Drop Canvas

mm ruler, 1-mm grid, snapping, zoom up to 300 %, rubber-band multi-select and debug lines.

11 element types

Text, barcode, QR code, GRF image, SVG icon, line, diagonal line, circle, ellipse, rectangle and RFID/EPC tag.

Three ZPL modes

Native printer fonts (^A…^FD), TrueType as ^GFA image or literal ^A@/^FB - selectable per text field.

Data binding

Bind fields to CSV/JSON columns via $field, with an integrated test-data editor and HideIfEmpty.

Groups & locking

Element groups, lock, hide, skip-render and 60-step undo/redo - nothing is lost.

NEW

Units & DPI

mm/inch toggle across the whole UI (model stays mm), DPI presets 203/300/600 + custom.

Template gallery

Search with tag filter, autocomplete and preview - adopt ready-made layouts in one click.

Schema versioning

Design JSON with schemaVersion and automatic migration chain - old designs are migrated on load.

NEW

Unicode printer fonts

Own OFL font ZPLCloud (41,000+ code points: CJK, kana, Hangul, Vietnamese, Russian Cyrillic), Liberation Sans (Latin Extended, Greek, Cyrillic) and Droid fallback - rendered server-side and uploadable to the printer as E:ZPLCLOUD.TTF.

Tools & Generators

NEW

Barcode / QR generator

30+ symbologies: data + DPI → ZPL and PNG preview, download and raw print directly via port 9100.

NEW

DPI calculator

mm/inch ↔ dots, label size in pixels, pt ↔ dots and barcode module width - with 203/300/600 reference.

ZPL linter

Validates ZPL for errors with line/column - before it reaches the printer.

ZPL analyser

Explains every command and predicts print time, mesh size and render duration.

ZPL → design

Convert existing ZPL back into an editable designer design (roundtrip).

EPC / SGTIN-96

RFID encoder/decoder: GTIN + serial number ↔ 24-digit EPC hex with full decode roundtrip.

Converters

SVG → ZPL

Convert SVG icons and graphics into monochrome GRF ZPL commands.

PDF → ZPL

Convert PDF pages into printable ZPL graphics - including preview PDF.

HTML → ZPL

Render HTML in the browser and output it as monochrome ZPL (threshold/dithering).

Image → GRF

Convert PNG/photos with Floyd-Steinberg dithering into printer graphics.

NEW

EPL2 → ZPL

Convert Eltron printer language (text, barcodes, boxes, graphics).

NEW

DPL → ZPL

Convert Datamax printer language (text, barcodes, boxes, graphics).

NEW

TSPL → ZPL

Convert TSC printer language (TEXT, BARCODE, QRCODE, BOX, LINE).

ZPL Tools

Try the ZPL Tools

Convert, validate and measure ZPL directly in your browser - no login required, rate-limited per client IP. Every tool is also available via the REST API.

ZPL to PDF Render raw ZPL to a PDF label. ZPL to JPG Render raw ZPL to a JPG image. ZPL to PNG Render raw ZPL to a PNG image. ZPL to SVG Convert ZPL to a vector SVG. HTML to ZPL HTML (with scripts, QR & barcodes) to ZPL. PDF to ZPL Convert a PDF to monochrome ZPL. QR Code to ZPL QR code data to ZPL + PNG preview. Barcode to ZPL 30+ symbologies to ZPL + PNG preview. Image to ZPL PNG/JPG/GIF/BMP to GRF/ZPL. SVG to ZPL SVG to a monochrome ^GFA graphic. EPL2 to ZPL EPL2 (Eltron) source to ZPL II. DPL to ZPL DPL (Datamax) source to ZPL II. TSPL to ZPL TSPL (TSC) source to ZPL II. ZPL Linter Find errors, warnings and issues. ZPL Analyser Commands, stats and print-time prediction. DPI Calculator mm / inch / dots / px / pt converter.

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