Ingredients, allergen and nutrition labels at production speed, plus the case, pallet and shipping labels that follow them out the door. Plug a 4 or 6 inch industrial printer into your network, calibrate it once, then print from the Dill app on any iPhone, iPad or Android device, handhelds included.
Pick a label and print it. Drag the slider to feed it by hand. These are the real layouts, at the real sizes, with barcodes that scan.
Place the elements you need: title, ingredients, allergy advice, nutrition, batch, dates, barcodes. Set them to the millimetre, preview with real data, hit Publish. Every line prints the new version from the next label on.
Product, quantity, who was signed in, which printer, batch and dates, for every print on every line. Pick a day, search a product, export it when the auditor asks.
Every printer has Ethernet built in. Run a cable to the switch, give it a fixed IP or let DHCP do it. Wi-Fi is there as an option when a cable cannot reach.
Load the roll and ribbon, run media calibration from the printer's panel. It learns the gap and the label length. You do this when you change stock, not every shift.
Your templates, products and printers are already in your account. We build them before the printer arrives. Pick the label, set the quantity, print.
The Dill app runs on iOS and Android. A picker on a handheld, a team lead on an iPad at the end of the line, a supervisor on their phone in goods in. Everyone sees the same printers and the same templates.
| Typical label software | Dill | |
|---|---|---|
| Where it runs | A Windows PC or a print server in the office | The Dill app on iPhone, iPad, Android phones, tablets and handhelds |
| Licences | Per printer, often with designer seats on top | Unlimited users and devices. No designer seats |
| Changing a label | A ticket to the one person who knows the designer | Change it once, it is live on every printer at every site |
| Mobile printing | A separate product, or developer work | Built in |
| Getting started | Drivers, a server, templates rebuilt by hand | Plug in, calibrate, print. We build your templates |
| Record of what printed | Spread across PCs, if it is kept at all | Every label logged: what, when, which printer, who |
| Food labels too | A different system | Same account as your food to go and stock rotation labels |
Dill runs on the Brother TJ series: 4 inch models at 203 or 300 dpi, and 6 inch models for big pallet and drum labels. Thermal transfer or direct thermal on every one.
| Model | Width | Resolution | Speed | Panel | Good for |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TJ-4020TN | 4 in | 203 dpi | 10 ips | LED | Case and despatch labels, steady volume |
| TJ-4021TN | 4 in | 203 dpi | 10 ips | 3.5" colour touch | Lines where operators manage the printer |
| TJ-4120TN | 4 in | 300 dpi | 7 ips | LED | Small text, dense 2D codes |
| TJ-4121TN | 4 in | 300 dpi | 7 ips | 3.5" colour touch | Part ID and ingredient-heavy case labels |
| TJ-4420TN | 4 in | 203 dpi | 14 ips | 3.5" colour | High volume pallet and despatch |
| TJ-4422TN | 4 in | 203 dpi | 14 ips | Touch, built-in rewinder | Printing ahead onto rolls for applicators |
| TJ-4520TN | 4 in | 300 dpi | 12 ips | 3.5" colour | High volume with fine detail |
| TJ-4522TN | 4 in | 300 dpi | 12 ips | Touch, built-in rewinder | Fine detail, printed ahead onto rolls |
| TJ-6421TN | 6 in | 203 dpi | 12 ips | 4.3" colour touch | Large pallet, drum and outer case labels |
| TJ-6521TN | 6 in | 300 dpi | 10 ips | 4.3" colour touch | Large labels with small print |
SSCC pallet labels, GS1-128 case labels, batch and date codes. The right Application Identifiers in the right order, with check digits worked out every time.
Printing lot codes for US traceability? See the FSMA 204 guide.
Products and batches come in from a spreadsheet, or from your ERP or WMS through the Dill API on Enterprise plans.
No. The printer sits on your network over Ethernet and the Dill app sends labels to it. Install the app on your phones and tablets and that is it.
Yes. They come from the same product record as your case and pallet labels, with allergens in bold in the ingredients list and nutrition per 100 g and per pack. Change a recipe once and every printer picks it up.
The Brother TJ series: 4 inch models at 203 or 300 dpi up to 14 inches per second, and 6 inch models for larger pallet and drum labels. If you run other industrial printers, talk to us.
No. Dill is the labelling platform. It runs on the industrial printers on your lines and turns them into a connected, compliant system, with every print logged.
Yes. Dill runs on iOS and Android. Any iPhone, iPad, Android phone, tablet or handheld on your network can send a label to any printer you have set up.
It is built for sites printing thousands a day. The printers run up to 14 inches per second, take 8 inch media rolls and ribbons up to 600 m, so you change stock less often.
Yes. Pallet, case and despatch labels with the right Application Identifiers and check digits calculated for you.
No. Send us what you print today and we build the templates in Dill, so the printer is ready to go the day it arrives.
A licence with unlimited users and devices, no designer seats. Book a demo and we will price it against the labels you print today.
We will show it running on Dill, on an industrial printer, sent from a phone.
