1. After a full year of struggling with various ESL manufacturers and resellers, we can finally offer our unique one stop solution for ESLs:
    • You can buy ESLs and the base station (sender) directly in our web shop
    • A locally installed LPSNG uses Ethernet to talk to this base station
    • Cloud users can download and install our ESL Proxy, which connects the Ethernet based base station with our cloud servers.
    • LPSNG users with there own, central LPSNG server, can do the same.
    Sending content to the labels has never been easier:
    • Create a new Label Layout for your ESLs
    • Select RSJ 2.8 ESL as label type
    • Upload a data file (in "Label > Label Attributes > Data") and set the record origin
    • Set the "Target Type" to ESL and the "Target Address" field in "Label > Page and Label Attributes > Target" to the base station id and label id.
    • Design the rest of your label as usual (but keep in mind that the current ESLs have only 232 px x 88 px). 
    • Use "Run > Run" to create the labels

    You can buy basestations and labels directly in our online RSJ ESL Shop.

    But we are also more than happy to talk with you about your specific requirements and present our solution onsite.

    It is super easy to integrate new ESL types into our architecture. We like to expand the ESL options for our customers (eg new display sizes, different transmission technologies, different price points). Feel free to contact us, if you think that we should offer your hardware as an additional option in our shop.
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  2. Integrating LPSNG into other applications have now become much easier: Our new "Reusable Sidebar" allows you to show our user interface directly within your application.

     The basic idea is to package our user interface into an easily embeddable IFRAME, that can be controlled by your application. This gives web apps and native apps (via embedding of browser windows) access to the full functionality, while requiring only minimal coding on your side. 

    We have a (rough) description of the API on https://lpsng.rsj.de/en/reusableSidebar.md . 

    Our concept is based on a base component (https://lpsng.rsj.de/sidebar/sidebar.js) that is initialized and customized from a page specific user scripts.

     Our base component has a default implementation for most of the functionalities that you can inherit on.  

     So extending the base component or offering additional customization options (like not showing some controls) in the future is easy should not disrupt other integrations.  

    We have also made a simple demo page (https://lpsng.rsj.de/sidebarHost.html), which shows the internal interactions. It will just supply static data, but it will help you understand the mechanism.

    Here are the links to the scripts that we are using:
        https://lpsng.rsj.de/sidebar/main.js (the script that we use on the demo page)
        https://lpsng.rsj.de/sidebar/sidebar.js (the script that you have to include in your page)

    Our newly updated Google Sheets Add-On is already using this technology in the New UI version (we keep a Classic UI option for a short time, to allow for easier migration)

    We have also done an integration into Microsoft Excel (Online & 2013) based on it. The initial version will offer less options than the Google Sheets integration, but clearly shows the power. Excel 2013 shows, that native application can be integrated as well. We are currently working with Microsoft to bring this into the Office Store.

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  3. After 30 years in Germering we have now moved just outside of Stockdorf, which is 7km South.
    

    Our new offices are on the 2nd floor of Grubmuehl, an old mill  (known since 1399), directly on the waterfront of the river Wuerm, which connects Lake Starnberg with the river Isar. 
    

    

    Where a few years ago metal like bronze and gold has been rolled, now power, advertisement and software is created.

The offices are freshly renovated and have high speed internet.

Our new address is:

Grubmuehl 20
82131 Stockdorf 

All other contact details remain unchanged.
    

    

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        • The single user version of our on premises solution can now be licensed directly from our website
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        • Google is quitting Google Wallet for Digital Goods
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And if you need more performance than the simple Rasberry Pi can provide, there are other boards  on the market, which offer exactly that.
    

    

    
If you are interested, just contact us at: info@rsj.de
    
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Google Sheets supports Add-ons to automate various tasks. Combined with RSJ's Next Generation Label Printing Systems web service interface and Google Cloud Print this will give you the ability to create labels right from your spreadsheet.
    

    
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    16. You can find your PDF by clicking on "Job Queue"
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