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by semireg 1616 days ago
Label printing is still a world of hurt. My hope is to make it incrementally better, a smaller dumpster-fire, if you will.

I definitely have users triggering labellive:// integrations. The nice thing about the URI is it automatically launches the app if it isn't open - which is not true of HTTP integrations. The downside is it can be slower, especially on windows. Been there, done that. Maybe there's a workaround because Windows optimizations like this are a black box/art.

The other challenge is going to be referencing a standard design. Today, the integrations reference an absolute path or a "pinned" design file. I've had a few subtle requests to allow pulling down a standard "reference" design from the cloud (that you host for your users), and the app will cache the design based on a computed hash that you include in the URI. If your design changes, update the hash, Label LIVE will pull the update on the next invocation.

There's a lot of fun room to play with this. Let me know if you'd like to team up by emailing help @ label dot live. Now that I've got a fairly sturdy base of features my 2022 focus is to really hit and deliver on the potential for integrations like this.

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I definitely will. I'm adding an issue to my roadmap right now. This would be a no-brainer add-on for some common use cases.