Pressure Sensitive Green Labels Is The Word
Recently I have had several customers ask about “Green Labels”. At first I was not sure of what they were talking about. After some research and talking with my suppliers, there is in fact a small buzz out in the market place for labels to become more green. This is what I have found, we are working on ways to become more green, be it from recycling the trim from our labels, to the type of packing materials used to looking into higher post consumer waste (PCW) in the papers we use to convert labels. Things in the works are new papers being developed out of corn stalks...
Read MoreThe MassPlastics 2008 Trade Show Booth 821 March 26th and 27th
We are excited to be exhibiting at The 2008 MassPlastics trade show in beautiful Fitchburg, MA on March 26th and 27th. Our booth number is 821. We have several new products to show and demonstrate. If you are in the area, please stop by and say hello. We will be showing a new Zebra printer, Bartender barcode software and mobile data collection computers from Hand Held Products, Data Logic and Opticon along with various label materials focused primarily on the plastics industry. For more information, you can contact us 603.527.0256 or visit www.massplastics.com . We look forward...
Read MoreLunch with DNP in Laconia, NH
We were pleased to meet with DNP, the worlds largest manufacturer of thermal transfer ribbons. Tim Duffy, their Northeast Regional Sales Manager met us for lunch at O’s Steak House. Home of the best food in Laconia. We talked about the industry and things that were new to thermal transfer barcode label printing. One the industry first’s that DNP has invented is a longer ribbon, using the same outer diameter of the standard ribbon. The product name is W-127. The way they do this is by using a special thinner liner in which they get 15% more ribbon per roll that does...
Read MoreThoughts on the drive from SC to Boston
My youngest son transferred from UMASS Amherst to the University of South Carolina last week - a smart move on his part at this time of year. While helping him move in, I took the opportunity to visit with our friends at Scansource. Their headquarters is in Greenville SC which about 100 miles from the campus of USC in Columbia. Dana and I have done business with Scansource since the genesis of PaladinID and they are one of our primary distributors of all things bar code and data collection related. I was hosted on my visit by our sales rep Walker Young who took the time to show me...
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