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Custom Designer Tool vs ZebraDesigner

Custom Designer Tool

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ZebraDesigner

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FigureCustom Designer ToolZebraDesigner
Price fromFreeFree
Free planYesYes
Free trial—Yes
Open source——
Web—Yes
Windows—Yes
iOS—Yes
Android—Yes
Plans published15
Spec score · Barcode Labeling Software7.9 (#14)8.5 (#7)
HeadquartersFontevivo, Parma, ItalyLincolnshire, Illinois, USA
PurposeCustom Designer Tool is a professional label editor for creating labels.ZebraDesigner offers editions for designing labels, tags and receipts, from basic text labels to designs with RFID or fixed and variable data.

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Custom Designer Tool

  • Custom Designer ToolFree

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ZebraDesigner

  • ZebraDesigner Essentials 3Free
  • ZebraDesigner Essentials 3Free
  • ZebraDesigner for Developers 3Free
  • ZebraDesigner Professional 3 for Windows$345, paid once
  • ZebraDesigner Professional 3 for Windows$345, paid once

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ZebraDesigner

ZebraDesigner provides Windows software for designing labels, tags, and receipts, from basic text layouts to designs using RFID or fixed and variable data. Essentials includes text, barcode, and graphic objects, keyboard, date, time, and counter data sources, plus a GS1-128 barcode wizard. Professional adds connections to Excel, Access, text files, and other databases through ODBC, and supports printing and encoding RFID labels. Developer tools create ZPL templates for integration with other applications; listed options include Enterprise Connector for Oracle apps, PrintConnect, Print Station, and Zebra's XML-enabled printing solution. ZebraDesigner 3 can open legacy label formats from ZebraDesigner 2, and its interface is available in 20 languages. Supported systems are Windows 10 and 11 desktop editions and Windows Server 2019, 2022, and 2025. Remote Desktop Services and virtual machines are not supported, except Hyper-V technologies. Essentials and Developer editions cost nothing. Professional costs $345, paid once as an activation license key, limited to one computer.

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