Brady Workstation - Custom Designer Release Notes

R 3.41 - August 2026

New Features and Enhancements

• Supports upcoming i3311 and i5311 printers. 

• Adds RFID encoding for the upcoming i7500 RFID printer. 

• New GS1 Barcode Builder wizard makes entering Application Identifier (AI) values easy.

  • Supports GS1-128, GS1-DataMatrix, and GS1-QR codes.

  • Select AIs from a list. 

  • Add data by importing, creating a sequence, setting up date and time values, or combining values from other objects on the label.

  • Validate barcode values. 

  • Display human readable text including AI numbers, spaces, and parenthesis, but this formatting does not become part of the barcode value. 

• Barcode sizing improvements: 

  • Likely minimum and maximum barcode values are provided by default.

  • Barcode sizing is checked against minimum and maximum values when importing data. 

  • Flexible barcode sizing option removes density (X dimension) restrictions based on the DPI of the printer. 

  • New setting for linear barcodes determines how many characters of data are encoded per inch (or mm) of barcode length. 

  • Density setting renamed “X dimension” to align with standard terminology.

• Set the error correction level for QR codes. 

Issues Fixed

• In some circumstances an unexpected error would occur when printing to a networked i7500 printer.

• Counters were not placed on all labels until after viewing the print preview. 

• Barcode was not sizing to the full width of the label. Now you can set a minimum X dimension. 

• Barcode density (X dimension) could only be set to certain incremental values in order to assure barcode quality based on the printer’s DPI. New “Allow flexible barcode sizing” option overrides this restriction. 

• Selecting label part BM-187-1-312-YL (yellow) and then changing the color to white did not change the label supply. 

• On an i3300 printer with part number B30-244-595-NFPA, the actual print did not match the print preview. 

• A GS1 Datamatrix barcode created using Combine Fields had a control character that did not conform to standard. 

• After opening an existing template with a continuous label supply, the length displayed on the Document tab would change after selecting a text object. 

• Double-sided printing on two-sided slit sleeves did not match the preview. 

• New GS1 Barcode Builder solves an issue for GS1 Datamatrix barcodes in which the software did not ignore the Application Identifier values in parenthesis when creating the barcode.

 

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Previous Release Notes

 

R 3.40 - April 2026

New Features and Enhancements

• For continuous label supplies you can set a different label length for individual labels in the file.

• Changes to better support large print jobs on i7500 printers. 

Issues Fixed

• Sometimes imported text was no longer centered after reopening the file when “Refresh values when this label file is opened” was selected for the import. 

• Print was offset when using label supply M5-187-1-342 or M5-250-1-342 on an M510 printer. 

• Print shifted left when using label supply M5-12-109. 

• Sometimes a sequence that included before and after text would move to the wrong place on the label after viewing the Print screen and then returning to the label file. 

• Prohibition graphics triggered an error message on printing and used too much red ribbon on BBP37, BBP85, and S3700 printers.

R 3.39 - December 2025

New Features and Enhancements

• Supports Certis® C1-30 printer. 

• Supports upcoming i4311 printer. 

Issues Fixed

• Clarified an error message to indicate that counter values in templates are not retained between print jobs. 

• Print was offset when using label supply BM-94-342 on an M710 printer. 

• Print was offset when using label supply BM-187-1-342 on an M610 or M710 printer. 

• Print was rotated 180°when using label supplies beginning in THTEP-168 and THTEP-180 on i5100 and i7500 printers. 

• A QR code created using Combine Fields would incorrectly be displayed with a red dashed outline even though the data was valid. 

• When importing text from Microsoft Excel, the text come in smaller instead of wrapping even though the text properties were set to Fit and Bounded.

 

 

R 3.38 - August 2025

New Features and Enhancements

• On the i7500 printer, labels in portrait orientation always (if not rotated) exit the printer bottom first so that the text is readable.

• Improved the positioning of barcodes set to Fit Within Frame. 

Issues Fixed

• The Layouts list on the New page incorrectly directed you to the website to get more layouts.

 

 

R 3.38 - July 2025

New Features and Enhancements

• On the i7500 printer, labels in portrait orientation always (if not rotated) exit the printer bottom first so that the text is readable.

• Improved the positioning of barcodes set to Fit Within Frame. 

Issues Fixed

• The Layouts list on the New page incorrectly directed you to the website to get more layouts.

 

 

R 3.37 - May 2025

New Features and Enhancements

• Supports new i7500 peel and internal rewind options. 

• Files with graphics that are stored on the printer will load and print faster. 

• Improved performance when printing multiple copies of labels on an i7500 printer. 

Bugs

• Could not print to A6500 and A6200 printers over a network. 

• On small labels, sometimes adding linear barcode data using Sequence, Counters, Advanced Import, Excel Import or Combined Fields resulted in a barcode too large for the label. 

• When editing a very large label file (7000 labels, for example) with linked objects, the software appeared to stop responding. 

• When using a template created in Custom Designer, if a placeholder was left blank, the name of the placeholder object was used instead. 

• When printing on an M610 printer with label supply M6C-23-412, the print was in the wrong place on the label. 

• If you imported from Microsoft Excel, rotated the object 180°and then selected a Center option from the Arrange menu, the object was not centered correctly on all labels in the file. 

• If you had a Datamatrix barcode object linked on multiple labels for a 300 dpi i7500 printer and then installed a 600 dpi printhead, scaling the Datamatrix object on one label would not propagate to all the other labels. 

• Barcodes placed by importing data from Microsoft Excel did not always resize and reposition the same on all labels even with “Same as all in Set” selected. 

• On an M511 printer, setting the number of copies for each label in the editor (in multiple label view) displayed correctly in print preview, but only printed 1 copy of each label. 

• Advanced Import remained in trial mode after activating Custom Designer. 

• Printing was shifted on a tag when printed on a J7300 printer with the driver installed. 

• Printing appeared in the wrong location on some THT label supplies with an i7500 printer.

R 3.36 - March 2025

New Features and Enhancements

• Supports new i6100 printer. 

• For i7500 printers, the software detects whether a 300 or 600 dpi printhead is installed and prints accordingly. 

R 3.35 - November 26, 2024

New Features and Enhancements

• Supports new PA1100 and PA1300 printers. 
• Add a background fill to labels on the J7300 printer. Labels with multiple zones can have different background fill colors for different zones. 
• For J7300 printers, a new Brady Safety color palette is added that closely matches Brady B595 and B569 label colors when the Print Mode on the printer is set to Vibrant. 
• Rotate labels 180° at print time for i7500 and J7300 printers. 
• For the J7300 printer, the Print Mode selection is retained when the file is sent to the Batch Print app. 
• Pre-designed label layouts: 
  • Ability to remove a layout pack.
  • Usability improvements.
  • Layouts scale better when placed on one zone of a label with multiple zones. 
  • Some layout packs have colors optimized for the J7300 printer. 
• Custom-ordered labels are displayed in the color of the label (instead of always white) for i5300, i7500, and M611 printers. 

Issues Fixed

• When printing to a printer on a network, a black box would appear and it would take a couple minutes to print. 
• If the first object placed on a label was a graphic of your own, and you rotated that graphic, the label would rotate, but not necessarily other objects added to the label.
• Some user-supplied JPG files would rotate when added to the label. 
• The red striped border on a lockout tag printed orange on the J7300 printer. 
• Printing on a J7300 printer with PermaShield (JPSL) label supplies resulted in offset printing if the printer driver was not installed.

 

 

R 3.33 - July 31, 2024

New Features and Enhancements

• Supports new i7500 printer. 

• Time to start printing print jobs (with thousands of labels) is improved on i7500, i5300, i3300, and BBP33 printers. 

Issues Fixed

• During installation, a component could trigger an alert in anti-virus software. This component is removed.  

• Rotating a color graphic changed the graphic to monochrome black. 

• Printing on label supplies DT-76-813-1, DT-25-816, and XTHT-55 resulted in an error message about syntax. 

• Could not print label supplies THTEP-178-593-23 and THT-45-729-10 to an i5100 printer. 

• Printing with an IP300 or i5100 printer with part THT-92-498-2 was not working with Autocalculate length turned on.

 

R 3.32 Issues Fixed

• Improved messaging for various situations in which an unknown event error occurred due to an inability to retrieve computer specifications. 

• When using a single-color ribbon on a BradyPrinter S3700 printer, the Print page incorrectly displayed a red icon with a message indicating that the ribbon panel was too short.

R 3.31 - March 2024

New Features and Enhancements

• Supports new printers.

Issues Fixed

• Text objects were sometimes improperly rotated when a template also contained a rotated graphic.
• Alignment was sometimes not properly applied to all labels if multiple object types were selected.
• Opening the Print menu sometimes caused objects to shift position.
• Printing with an IP300 or i5100 printer with part THT-92-498-2 was not working with Autocalculate length turned on.
• Could not print with Brady fonts.
• Part alignment was incorrect with some PermaSleeve parts: M6-___-1-342-WT.
• Two-sided labels were not being printed correctly with the BBP72 printer.