User`s guide

Chapter 9: COOL Text
Overview
9 COOL Text
Overview
Country of Origin Labeling (COOL) is information assigned to a specific PLU that
designates where a product came from and the processing it went through.
In many ways COOL records (Country of Origin Labeling) are treated very similar to
ingredients records. COOL records must be assigned to a PLU in order to print, exactly
how Ingredient information works.
COOL implementation involves a combination of COOL Text Records, COOL Production
Text Records, COOL Countries and possibly COOL Pretext.
COOL Records
COOL Text
COOL Text records contain the complete statement of how the product was harvested
and where it was harvested. Common examples of a COOL Text record are “Wild
Caught” or “Product of USA”.
Multiple COOL Texts can be chained together to give an operator more selections. This is
useful for a retailer that purchases an identical product from multiple countries.
Production Text
Production text are statements in the list such as “Produced in”, “Processed in”.
Production text is created the same way as COOL Text.
Country Text
Country text is a list of countries and the individual country names (literals). Country text
and text lists are created the same as COOL Text as described above.
Pre Text
Pre Text is a word or phrase that prints before the COOL Text on a label. Pre Text is
programmed into the PLU record and cannot be overridden by the operator. Pre text and
text lists are created the same as COOL Text as described above.
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