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When I reviewed the new Intermec PM43 printer, I mentioned that it didn’t behave the way I would have expected when using IPL. At the time, it seemed that IPL support was somewhat lacking, which seemed odd as just about every Intermec customer of ours uses their printer in IPL mode. We were particularly frustrated at one […]

If you work in the medical device manufacturing or healthcare industry, you’ll want to understand the issues behind the UDI task force. Take a few minutes and watch this video from GS1 called, “Standardization….Stat! Improving the Healthcare Supply Chain with Data Standards.” Now you can see why a unique, global identifier is needed to ensure product/equipment […]

Just a quick note for anyone having problems with Datamax RFID printers. We have had three printers (two brand new from Datamax and one an RFID retrofit) where the RFID module refused to encode the tag in the labels. This became rather frustrating for a while, until the problem was solved by using a new […]

Thermal Transfer ribbons are not all the same. Here at Winco ID we have worked with some of the best thermal ribbon manufactures to put together a ribbon line up that compliments our label and printer solutions. We know you want the best print quality and the longest printhead life – all at the lowest cost and we are […]

With the FDA’s UDI program moving along, it is important that medical device manufacturers come up with plans to get into compliance. A lot of the information we’ve provided so far on UDI has been built around the GS1 system, but HIBCC (Health Industry Business Communication Council – yes, I did get it wrong in […]