Polyimides were brought into production back in the 1950, and Polyimide Labels have been widely used in the electronics, aerospace and other industries for some time. Probably the most common polyimide material used for labeling applications is Dupont’s Kapton. What are Polyimide Labels? Kapton Polyimide film that is used for making labels is very well […]
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Pantone Colour of 2013 – Emerald
If you are in the printing or graphics business, you’ll have used Pantone’s products – probably the little colour chips used to try and visually match colours. Well, each year the company has a Color of the Year and for 2013 it is Emerald, or 17-5641 in the Pantone numbering system. I have to say, […]
Kit Labels – Improve Labeling Efficiency
Do your labeling jobs often need sets of labels? If so, there is a good chance that the kit label concept might be helpful to you. The kit label concept involves creating a set of labels on a single roll. These are printed in one pass through the label printer so you can be sure […]
How Label Orientation Affects Printer Performance
Our service department sometimes receives calls from customers about the print quality of their barcodes; barcodes that are too light on an edge, or barcodes that don’t have enough contrast to scan properly. It turns out that these types of problems are sometimes not with the printer, but with the way the label printing is […]
Honeywell to Buy Intermec
We’ve been an Intermec partner for quite a while so were interested to see the news that the company is looking to sell itself to Honeywell for about $600 million. Honeywell has been on an acquisition spree in the Auto ID business over the last few years, having already bought Hand Held Products, Metrologic and LXE. […]