LPS Retirement - It's time to modernize your labeling system

Support for Loftware Print Server and the LPS Family of Products ends on Dec 31, 2024.  

The LPS Family of Products being retired includes the Loftware Print Server and its client software components as well as Loftware Label Manager, Loftware Connector for Oracle, Loftware Connector for SAP, Universal Connector, Loftware Web Services and Loftware Web Access.

Your LPS license will remain active, however, Loftware support for your LPS deployment will no longer be available. This means that Loftware will no longer provide technical support for LPS Products or product fixes. 

Add-on LPS licenses and print seats will be available for purchase to support your business requirements until the December 31, 2024 end of support date. 

Please contact your Loftware Account Executive or migrations@loftware.com, to learn more about the migration programs that enable you to modernize your labeling and that meet your requirements today and into the future.  

With the recent Loftware combination with NiceLabel, the combined Loftware solution set is equipped to meet the needs of all types of labeling operations, from global enterprises to small businesses and everything in between. Determining the right Loftware future facing solution for your LPS Migration is based on a number of factors, such as the size and complexity of your labeling operations and expectations for future growth or expansion.  Experienced Loftware Migration experts will work with you to identify the best fit for your business and your future.

Contact us at migrations@loftware.com to get started.

A future-proof Loftware solution comes with many benefits compared to LPS. To list just a few: 

• Easily extend labeling to an unlimited number of users​ 
• Much faster and easier label design/label updates (including fewer templates, WYSIWYG, easy label changes, printer agnostic templates) 
• Improve and digitize quality assurance (review and approval workflows, digitized label comparison, centralized storage, etc.) 
• Configurable workflows to streamline label review and approval and support compliance 
• Role-based access controls for increased security and control 
• Vastly improved audit tracking and reporting 
• Expanded options for pre-built Integrations with greater flexibility in business rules
• Future-proof architecture (scalable on premise or cloud deployments) 

Yes, you can continue to integrate your labeling with business systems you use today. Both Loftware Spectrum and Nicelabel offer pre-built and web-services integrations in addition to traditional file drop integration. When planning your migration, we will review your integration(s) and make recommendations for the optimal direction. 

Yes, you can renew your LPS/LLM support to last through December 31, 2024. Your last year to renew for a full year will be in 2023. If your renewal expires before December 31, 2024, you can purchase a prorated renewal until the end of the year. 

We have tools to migrate your existing LPS .lwl files to both Spectrum or NiceLabel. We will work with you to determine what LPS labels should be migrated, based on your goals for optimizing labeling processes by taking advantage of the new capabilities available in Loftware's modern solutions.

Support for disabled LPS/LLM licenses due to unplanned or unexpected OS updates or hardware issues ends with all other support for the LPS product family on Dec 31, 2024. We are actively monitoring LPS/LLM migration progress and are committed to retaining and migrating all our customers to one of our future proof solutions, Loftware Spectrum or Loftware NiceLabel. These solutions are strongly positioned to meet LPS/LLM customers’ current and future labeling needs while enabling more efficiencies and cost savings.