The Produce Traceability Initiative (PTI) has just about reached its goal of whole-chain traceability for produce in 2012, but implementing the final milestone has stalled. The final milestone specifies that each subsequent handler of a case of produce will have the systems and capability to read and store the GTIN and lot number from each […]
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Keeping it Real: Barcodes and Holograms
Does your organization have to deal with the threat of having your products being counterfeited? What plans do you have in place to prevent this, or at least make it more difficult? A while ago I wrote about how giving products a digital voice can give the item the ability to share information with us. […]
Datamax M-Class – Loading the Media
The M-Class printer from Datamax is one of my favorite label printers – a great combination of quality, features, physical size and price. The area I’ve complained about is the printhead pivoting method. Being cantilevered it can make it difficult to thread the ribbon (some of the Zebra models have this same problem as well) […]
Datamax I-Class Mk II Rebates – Hurry!
You might be aware already that our friends at Datamax-O-Neil recently introduced a new version of their I-class printer – the I-Class Mk II. To get the new product off to a good start, the company is offering a super rebate program for Mk II orders, good through all of 2012. There is however, one […]
Barcodes and Baseball – A Home Run!
Winco ID, along with our partners at Datamax-O’Neil, recently hosted a Bar Codes and Productivity event at the Northeast Delta Dental Stadium, home of the New Hampshire Fisher Cats. The event took place in the Bank of New Hampshire VIP suite and featured a seminar on the role of barcodes in a manufacturing environment. Our […]