Xcel Label

Xcel Label is a straightforward software utility that can provide assistance in creating custom barcode labels for your products. You can also use it to design and print badges, cards or letters, with or without 2D barcodes.

Its interface might remind you of Office, as it features the ribbon top with all the options available within reach. Here, you can find basic text editing and object manipulation tool, along with page setup settings.

And speaking of page setup, Xcel Label comes with support for multiple page sizes, meaning you can change the default “A4” page setup. While you can freely modify the size of the label and its layout on the page, it is definitely easier to select one of the predefined label stocks, which fill the chosen paper with labels of a given size.

Xcel Label features a floating window with objects that you can include in your design. The labels you create can bundle images and other graphics or shapes, such as rectangles, ellipses or straight lines. As expected, text boxes and barcodes are also available.

The application can generate various types of 2D barcodes, in human-readable form or not, with or without checksum. Barcodes can include date and time details, but keep in mind that Xcel Label can also connect to a database to import data from there. The database wizard can guide you step by step through the entire process, from configuring the connection details to selecting the tables to import. Xcel Label comes with support for various database types, including Microsoft Excel and Access, SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL, as well as other OLE DB databases, ODBC data sources or plain text files.

While there are other label designing tools out there that provide a more comprehensive toolbox, this application stands out through its simplicity and ease of use. It can generate all kinds of 2D barcodes, it comes with various content formatting tools and it features database support for convenient and quick importing of data. It is an application that is worth a try if you are on the lookout for a barcode label creator.