Markem LP 8400 Story II
I apologize for not keeping this blog up to date. I thought I would have more time seeing that we are in a recession. I just wanted to give an update as to where we are at with the testing on the new inks. The testing is completed and our new inks tested better for fade resistance than the labels that were produced off of the Markem LP 8400. As a company we were estatic that after two years we finally recieved the results we were trying to achieve. The Markem LP 8400 was the only solution known to produce a colored label that could be outside for many many years. There were no...
Read MoreSmart Meters Are All The Rage!
Everyday in the news you hear about Smart Grid Technology. This is one industry that is going to boom over the next 3-5 years. One of the best things about this industry is that it has the potential to reach over a 100 million homes with new equipment, services and support and that the products are typically made here in the United States. The upside for vendors in this industry is huge. We at PaladinID are excited because we just released a product that will fit into this new Smart Grid system. The product is a fade resistant flexographic ink for bar code labels that can be put...
Read MoreThermal Transfer Outdoor Colored Labels
I my 22 years of being in the bar code labeling industry, one thing that has frustrated me is that there were no solutions for outdoor colored labels that could run through a thermal transfer printer, be it a Zebra, Datamax, Sato or Intermec etc. In order to make labels, a flexographic press is used. The inks that are used do not have fade resistant properties that last more than 2-3 years outdoors. I know this niche is very small in who could benefit from a colored label that would last 10-15 years outdoors, but I wanted to see if it could be done. The key to all of this was to...
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