New Thermal Transfer Ribbon
DNP has released a new thermal transfer ribbon called the W127 that works in all thermal transfer printers. It is a wax formulation that is 15% longer than the traditional 1,476′ for a Zebra printer and 984′ for a Datamax or Sato printer. You ask, how can this be? It is because they use a thinner carrier or liner. It has the same OD (outer dimensions) as the standard OEM ribbons, but there is more length per roll. This ribbon is not only less expensive per foot, it will mean less ribbon changes per day and less shipping costs per order. It is a win win situation for...
Read MoreOn-Line Bar Code Verification Revisited
In an earlier post we talked about an application in which our client needed to verify the print quality of bar codes as they were being printed. We recommended an after market bolt-on scanning device that could trigger a divert from the manufacturing line if a sub-standard bar code was detected. Well, we have another client with a similar business problem – ensuring that the bar codes they print on their products are scannable by their end user customers. However, this application differs in that the labels are printed in a peel and present mode and then manually applied to the...
Read MoreVisiting Western New York in July
Last week Dana and I took the opportunity to visit with a number of our vendor partners in the Buffalo NY area. Dana was there with his family visiting Niagara Falls and I drove from Boston to join him. We met with one of our distribution partners, Bluestar who has a regional office in West Seneca NY. The local manager there is our old friend Mike Moscato. We also got the opportunity to meet with Kathi Phelps at IIMAK, the ribbon manufacturer, who graciously took us to lunch. PaladinID and IIMAK have a relationship that goes back to when Dana started the company. We got an...
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