LabelVault in 4 minutes

0:03 — Cold open
Hey. This is LabelVault — a label designer and printer for Windows. You design a label once, save it, and print it whenever you need it. On a roll printer, a Brother, or a sheet of Avery labels through the office printer. Here's how it works.

0:18 — The Library
This is the Library. Every label you save shows up here as a card, with a little preview. Click one and it opens on the right, with the things you'd want to do with it: open it, print it as it is, make a copy, rename it, delete it. Right-click a card, and the same options are right there. Search finds a label by name. And up top is the folder they live in. Point that at a Dropbox or a shared drive, and the whole shop sees the same labels.

0:45 — A new label
New label. The first thing it asks is the size. Roll labels for thermal printers, Avery sheets by product number, Brother DK rolls — or type your own. Search for it, four by six, pick it — and there's your blank label.

0:59 — The editor
The tools are down the left. Text, barcode, QR code, image, lines and shapes, and a table. Click Text, and a text box lands on the label. Double-click it and just start typing — what you type shows up right on the label. Drag it to move it. Pull a handle to resize it. The little circle rotates it. Everything about it lives over on the right: the font, the size, bold, alignment. Auto-fit is worth knowing. With it on, the text shrinks to fit its box, so a long part number never runs off the edge of the label.

1:30 — Barcodes and QR codes
Barcodes. Click the tool, double-click the barcode, and type the value — the bars redraw as you type. The type is over on the right: Code 128 is the safe default, and there's UPC, EAN, Code 39 and more. QR codes work the same way. Type a link, a serial number, anything — and it's a code a phone can scan.

1:54 — Tables
Need a grid, like part, lot and quantity? That's the table tool. Double-click a cell and type. Rows, columns and the column widths are over on the right, and every cell keeps its own text — so it lines up like a proper form.

2:09 — Lining things up
When you drag, things snap to the label's edges and to each other, and the pink guides show you when they do. To line up more than one thing, shift-click to select them, and use Arrange: align them, space them out evenly, send one behind another. Down here is zoom. Type a number, fit the label to the window — or Real size, which shows the label exactly as big as it'll print.

2:33 — Save it
Save, give it a name, and it's in the Library. A label is one file — dot L B V — and it carries everything: the size, the fonts, the images. Copy it to another PC, open it there, and it's identical.

2:46 — Your license
Designing is free. Printing needs a license, or the free trial. Settings, License. Start free trial: type your email, and a thirty-day key lands in your inbox in about a minute. When you buy, the key arrives the same way. Paste it in, Activate — done. One key covers every PC you bought.

3:06 — Printing
Print. Pick the printer — any printer Windows knows about — how many, and go. If a printer puts things a hair off, use Test print. It prints an alignment box; nudge these until the box sits inside the label's edges. LabelVault remembers that per printer, so you fix it once. The black-and-white box keeps things crisp on thermal printers — leave it off for inkjet or laser.

3:28 — Settings
A few settings. Where your labels are saved. Inches or millimetres. Snap and grid. And a dark theme, if that's your thing.

0:00 — Wrap
That's LabelVault. Design it once, print it whenever. The free trial's at beckhamenterprises.com — go make some labels.