Flexisoft - Software with New Features for Greater Functionality
15 October 2004
Fleximark has launched a new 32bit version of its Flexisoft marking system. The user-friendly software for producing labels and markers for cables and electrical components now incorporates a range of new features for even greater functionality. The light version 8.0 is free for down load from internet: www.fleximark.com . These include a number of pre-defined templates to make getting started even easier, a permanent preview window and a simple drag and drop facility for inserting symbols.
Being able to identify the often hundreds of different cables, leads and wires in today's industrial plants and offices makes maintenance and repairs easier, and more importantly, safer. With Flexisoft, markers are created on a standard PC or laptop Microsoft Excel, which can be printed on a normal office Laser Printer. Users can access all the features available with Windows, such as graphics, cut and paste and different fonts and colours to customise their labels, and the software also has a large clip art library including useful electrical symbols.
Integrated text handling allows labels to be edited quickly and easily on screen, and useful tools enable the generation of serial numbers, alphanumeric sorting and import of text from other programs. There is also a handy zoom facility plus a wide range of graphical tools for incorporating lines, rectangles, ellipses and triangles. In addition to the standard package in the free version, a full version including barcodes, Flexisoft 8.0, is also available.
Flexisoft offers a choice of printout options. Labels can be laser-printed onto self-adhesive sheets or fan-folded labels for dot-matrix printers. Markers for electrical wires can be output on Flexiprint marking card made from a specially coated polyester foil which is resistant to UV light, oil and moisture, halogen-free and has a high temperature range <120Co. Alternatively, Flexilabel offers a highly durable marker in either UV-stabilised profiles, which are secured with cable ties, or in self-adhesive snap-in carriers with transparent covers.
