In order to maximize the benefits that on-demand label printing can bring, there has been a need over the last few years to move from large centrally located label printers to smaller ones that are located right where the label will be used. This trend means that for this “distributed printing” model, the tradition industrial printers […]
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New Intermec PM43 Printer
I don’t know about you, but there has been so little innovation from Intermec for a while, I had thought they had abandoned the industrial printer business. Happily, it turns out this wasn’t the case and the company has announced the new PM43 and PM43C models. Intermec’s legacy 3400 printers were really successful and there […]
Boston Show Review
This week, the Winco ID team was exhibiting at the Design & Manufacturing New England Show at the Boston Convention Center. Actually the whole concept of this show is very confusing, with three different exhibitions thrown together somewhat randomly in one room. Back in the heyday of electronics manufacturing in New England, this show was […]
Get the Right Software for Barcode Labeling
If you are looking to print your own barcode labels, then you need to consider the following bit of information. Just because software can print a label does not mean that it can print barcode labels. For example, you probably have software that prints address labels for mailing out invoices or other company communications. But […]
Digital Voice for Assets?
I came across this interesting “about” statement over at the Zebra Technologies website. For a company that makes label printers (and some other things), this might seem to be rather odd. Stepping back a little and thinking of the actual uses of printed labels though, the idea of assets having a digital voice makes a […]