Posts made in February, 2008

RJS/ Printronix high speed on-line verification on the manufacturing floor

Posted by on Feb 21, 2008 in Barcode Scanning, General, Label Printing | 0 comments

One of our manufacturing customers approached us with a business problem to solve. (That’s what we do!) The product that our customer makes is targeted to retail markets and requires highly readable UPC bar codes or they get the product returned from their clients.  Or worse, they are assessed an escalating fee for each instance of non-scanning.  Because of the volume of products they manufacture and the speed of the production line,  it is not practical to manually inspect or verify each  item to make sure the bar code label is readable.  In addition to an automated...

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Meeting With Datamax Factory Rep Bruce McDowell

Posted by on Feb 20, 2008 in Label Printing | 0 comments

I want to thank Bruce McDowell for meeting us for lunch and training session this week.  Datamax has come out with some very unique features in their printers.  I was very impressed with what Datamax is doing.  Their printers are robust and very durable.  One thing that impressed me most, being a Zebra certified tech, is how easy it was to work on these printers.  Almost everything was at your finger tips, out in the open.  Another thing I really liked about the printer line is that once you get out of the portable printers, they are all RFID capable.  Meaning that if you buy one of...

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ECL Relationship Started

Posted by on Feb 18, 2008 in General | 0 comments

During the past 3 years, I have been asked if we provided a solution for ECL (Expanded Content Labels).  At first I was not sure what people were talking about, but the more I was asked, the more I needed to find out what this was all about.  ECL is used where a one dimensional label does not have enough area to print all of the information your company needs to print.  Think of an ECL as more of a booklet or pamphlet with mulitple pages bound together on a liner like a label that is able to adhere to your products.  This is a very cost effective way to get your information out. ...

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