It’s always exciting when Pantone announces its Color of the Year (well, maybe not for those boring yellow and grey colors from last year), and 2022 is no exception. This year’s – well next year’s I suppose – special color is rather bluey-purply and is called Very Peri, Pantone 17-3938. To be honest, it looks […]
Labeling Ideas
Browse through these labeling ideas to learn more about how you can utilize labeling machinery for you specific product requirements. Labeling machinery is versatile to accommodate diverse applications. View these articles to learn about labelers and labeling machinery along with labeling solutions.
Inkjet or Labeling for Shipping Case Barcodes?
When it comes to adding barcodes to your corrugated shipping cases, the two most common ways to do this are to either use labels or print directly to the box using an inkjet printer, depending on your product and industry. As with many things, the answer is that it depends. Which method is best? Let’s […]
Labeling & Coding at Westpack
Next week, starting August 10th, is our first in-person tradeshow since the start of the Covid era. Our Labeling & Coding brands will be exhibiting, along with other ProMach business lines, at Westpack in Anaheim, CA. We’ve been busy for the last few weeks getting everything ready and our exhibits should be delivered to the […]
High-Quality Printing for Gypsum Products
Here in the US, it seems just about the interior of just about every house, apartment, and many other buildings is constructed of a product that has so many different names: drywall, plasterboard, wallboard, sheetrock, gypsum board, buster board, custard board (I’ve never seen this called custard board before, but I saw it on Wikipedia, so it must be right). […]
Need Individual UPC GTIN Barcodes?
Over the years, one question I’m always asked is “how can I get single UPC barcodes, or get them in small quantities?” There hasn’t always been a good answer for this – the choice has been to invest in a GS1 company prefix (confusing to many people and can be expensive), or to buy UPC […]
Pantone Color of the Year – 2021
Well, this is interesting (ok, slightly interesting, maybe), the folks at Pantone announced their Color of 2021 a while ago and it is actually two colors. In this newsworthy development, the Color of 2021 is yellow (Pantone 13-0647 Illuminating) AND grey, (Pantone 17-5104 Ultimate Gray). What do you think? Exciting stuff? According to the Pantone […]
Shipping Label and Packing Slip Automation
If your company has to ship products, there are a couple of things that always have to take place. Print and apply the correct shipping label to the shipment and also make sure a packing slip (or invoice) is included. The packaging slip can be folded and placed inside the package – either by hand […]
Reinventing Print and Apply Labeling
Print and apply labeling can be a challenge, with conflicting wishes. More output at higher conveyor speeds, less downtime, better print quality – especially for GS1 barcodes, and make things easier for the operator. Checking all of these boxes in one piece of equipment has been difficult in the past, but the brand-new ID Technology […]
Welcome to ProMach – Panther Industries
We are super excited that Panther Industries is now part of our ProMach Labeling & Coding team! Like ID Technology, Panther is a manufacturer of both print/apply and decorative labeling systems. As it happens, the two product lines of very complementary and between us we can now handle even more labeling applications and can build […]
Celebrating 20 Years of Printer Applicator Manufacturing
Twenty years ago (back in 2000), ID Technology launched a new label printer applicator model – the 250. Until then, ID Technology had been a reseller of other OEMs products – the 250 being the first model designed and built by the company. This new labeling system was more modular in construction when compared to […]
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