Did you ever wonder how a scanner reads a barcode? There’s a lot of science and engineering behind that red beam of light. The basic principle of a scanner is to analyze an image and process it in some way. Image and text capture (optical character recognition or OCR) allow you to save information to […]
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Barcodes and Baseball – 2012
If you’ve been to one of our Winco ID events, you’ll know that we try hard to make them both educational and fun. Our new one promises to be the best yet! We are hosting “Barcodes and Productivity – A Home Run” on June 20th at the home of New Hampshire Fisher Cats Stadium, in the Bank […]
LabelView 10 Released
Our friends at Teklynx have released the latest version of their LabelView program, LabelView 10 – drawing Teklynx level with Seagull Scientific in the race to have the highest version number. We had been hoping that a new version would be coming along soon – we had not had good luck with LV9 and had […]
Zebra ZT200 Series
It is always nice to see a new model printer from our friends at Zebra. The new ZT200 series looks as though it is intended to be a replacement for the S4M, which has been around for a few years. As is often the case, Zebra has taken the evolution, rather than revolution approach, which […]
Beefing Up FDA Authority over Drug Supply
Yet another drug has been found to be a counterfeit; the U.S. Food and Drug Administration posted a warning recently about a counterfeit version of Adderall, the medication taken for ADHD disorder. Since about 80% of the active ingredients in many medications are produced overseas, there’s plenty of opportunity for counterfeiting along the convoluted and […]
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