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Although the Food Safety Modernization Act, passed last December, excluded many small farmers and food producers from some of the regulations, many are still worried that new rules will cause them more harm than good. Very small businesses who sell less than $500,000 in the same state and are within 275 miles of the food […]

Mobile bar code applications are now spilling into the wine industry. Some wineries, such as JUSTIN Vineyards & Winery in California, are now using 2D bar codes on their labels to inform consumers of their product. If you aren’t a wine connoisseur, it can be confusing to try and select a nice wine just by looking at […]

As hosted or cloud applications become more common, one of the issues to be addressed is how to connect to peripheral equipment such as label printers. With traditional servicer-based ERP or tracking systems it is easy to print to label printers that are attached to the network, indeed many printer manufacturers make a big deal […]

One of the ways we can help our DoD contractor customers is by providing our set of BarTender templates for MIL-STD-130 and MIL-STD-129 labels. Here’s a short video tutorial on connecting the MSL label to a spreadsheet to populate the label with the required data. Need a set of these templates? We provide them at […]

I came across this problem just the other day. A client had an activated version of BarTender, but the software insisted on going into expired trial mode and not printing the barcodes correctly. I’d never seen this before – how could the software possibly be activated and in trial mode at the same time? A quick call […]