We had a great time at this year’s Barcodes & Baseball event, held at the home of the NH Fishercats baseball team. The event was sponsered by our good friends at Datamax-O’Neil and we had presenters from Winco ID, Datamax-O’Neil and Valmarc Corp. The weather during the afternoon wasn’t promising and we appreciate everyone that […]
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Review – Datamax Performance Series STp.1120n
With the recent acquisition of Source Technologies, Datamax-O’Neil has got hold of an innovative line up of label printers. I posted some thoughts on the acquisition a while ago and we now have one of the new printers to check out. Our demo printer is the STp.1120n (I hope Datamax switches to easier to remember […]
Country of Origin in the Barcode?
You might have come across versions of the following information in an email or on various social media sites about a barcode number indicating the country of origin of the product: This information originated a few years ago following the melamine-tainted foods and toys manufactured in China. Understandably, consumers wanted to be better informed about […]
Zebra ZXP Series 1 Card Printer
Over the last couple of years, the folks at Zebra have been beavering away refining their line up of ID card printers. A new addition that is just arriving on the market is the low cost, ZXP Series 1. The new model is clearly based on the P100i printer (in fact other than the change […]
Validate UIDs on Your Smartphone
I’ve always thought that it would be really helpful to be able to quickly validate a MIL-STD-130 UID barcode using my phone or a simple scanner. This had remained a wish for the longest time, but this morning the latest newsletter from A2B Tracking arrived in my inbox. First off, I must admit that I delete most […]