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. […]
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Honeywell 8650 Ring Scanner Review
I’m always surprised that products like the Honeywell 8650 scanner are not more widely used – they seem to be a concept that could make life easier for a large group of users. Imagine that you work in a busy warehouse or distribution center. A big part of your day consists of moving boxes or […]
Datamax & Zebra Printers – Network Issues
Earlier this year, I had written about the problems with Datamax printers disappearing from the network when attempting to send them label data to print. At the time, Datamax had just released new firmware for their printer models that was supposed to fix the issue. Did it work? Maybe it did to some extent, but […]
Trade In and Trade Up
Intermec’s trade in program expires on December 31, 2012. Now is the time to upgrade your legacy industrial, mobile, or desktop printer to something new. You can trade in a competitor’s model or an Intermec pre-owned thermal printer towards a new Intermec printer and earn up to $525 back! Intermec offers a complete line of rugged, […]
Barcodes and Error Correction
I’m a huge fan of 2D barcodes – whether the Datamatrix for industrial applications, QR Codes for cool marketing (and some industrial) stuff and Microsoft Tag for its design features – I use them all! While one of the huge advantages of 2D over linear barcodes is the fact more data can be encoded into […]