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I must say, I’m always impressed with what a great job the Eplilog laser engravers do – on all kinds of applications. One we have seen a lot of recently is the need to be able to engrave barcodes onto items; particularly high quality UID marks. Did you know that a simple way to get […]

Some of us remember when a loaf of white bread cost about .29 cents (around 1980!) You probably won’t find that in today’s supermarket but what still exists is the thin profit margin bread manufacturers and bakeries work with to deliver product. Industry professionals are constantly looking for ways to be competitive and make a […]

If your organization is looking to implement or upgrade an existing bar code system, then you may have questions like “where should we start?”, “what type of barcode should we use?”, and “what is the best equipment for our situation?”. To help address these and other questions, Winco ID is offering a free download of the […]

A recent annual report from the U.S. Customs and Border Protection and the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agencies highlight the economic problems associated with counterfeiting. These agencies made 14,841 seizures of counterfeit and pirated goods for fiscal year 2009; the domestic value of the goods was $260.7 million. Consumer goods, electronics, and computers are […]

The Global Harmonization Task Force (GHTF) is a group of representatives from medical device regulatory agencies and the medical industry. GHTF has released a discussion paper on UDI for medical devices and hopes to prepare a draft of guidelines for Unique Device Identification soon. Currently there is no definition of a worldwide UDI tracking mechanism, […]