Improve labelling productivity, accuracy and reduce your cost with SATO AEP Application Enabled Printing

Discover the beauty of powerful on-board intelligence with Application Enabled Printing (AEP). Simplify the labelling process of your customers with the ability to customise printer operations, significantly reducing costs and improving operational efficiency.

AEP allows for tailor-made labelling applications including PC-less printing, direct connection of peripherals such as keyboards, scanners and scales for data input.

What is SATO AEP?


PC-Less. Eliminates the need for separate printers & PCs, with no third-party software for OS & middleware, no licenses required & easier update and roll out.
Perfect Fit. Ideal for areas where space is minimal, or where the environment is unsuitable for a PC.

Peripheral Device Connection. Printer can process info internally and link to devices such as scanners, weighing scales, thermometers and PLC.
Reduce Total Cost of Ownership. Reduces business downtime and decreases system maintenance with less recurring costs.

Onboard Intelligence. Decisions are made by printer and not by unqualified staff.
Improves The Labelling Process. Easy and intuitive labelling process that improves efficiency and productivity, while minimising the risk for human errors.

Cloud Enablement. Connect the printer directly to IT and cloud systems.
Direct connectivity to IT and cloud systems. Reduces system complexity meaning less things can go wrong and makes troubleshooting easier.

SATO AEP Case Study

Manufacturer (Automotive) – Versatile Label Printing from PLC

Challenges: Tedious to perform label printing by integrating Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) as it takes time for engineers to learn printer programming languages, maintain individual printer programming code for different label formatting.

Solution: AEP solution with CL4NX printer to simplify label printing.
Save label templates in printer so that only variable data need to be sent from PLC (as comma-separated files) for label printing.

Food Retail – Easy & Efficient Food Labelling

Challenges: Difficult to manage different equipment for printing & store operations in limited space.
Headquarter updates label data across all outlets manually which is prone to human error.

Solution: AEP solution with FX3-LX printer and SATO App Storage cloud-based data management service.
FX3-LX occupies a small footprint & is intuitive for users to print various types of product labels.
With SATO App Storage, headquarter can update data across all outlets instantly.

Manufacturer – RFID Data Logging

Challenges: Too time-consuming to retrieve tag data (e.g. tag ID, EPS) manually.
Want to protect product and prevent counterfeiting.

Solution: SATO AEP can make it simpler and more efficient as SATO printer can print and encode RFID labels while creating a CSV log all on its own without using a PC.