With HR 3204, The Drug Quality and Security Act, having finally been signed by the President, we can expect to see a lot more activity in the area of tracking and traceability for pharmaceutical products. It is important to be able to establish traceability from pallets of product to the cases that make up the […]
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.
Time to Upgrade Your Datamax A-Class Printer
If you use the original model of Datamax-O’Neil’s A-Class print engine, 2014 is an important year. Manufacture of this print engine was discontinued in 2009 and at the end of 2014 factory support comes to an end. Obviously this doesn’t mean that your machine will stop working, but from December 2014, Datamax-O’Neil will no longer […]
Personalized Wine Labels
If you need to produce short runs of labels for wine bottles (or anything else) getting great quality printing at a sensible price has always been a challenge. This has changed with the introduction of the new VP700 Memjet powered label printer from ID Technology. The VP700 is able to produce glorious colour labels at […]
NANO – the Compact YAG Laser
It wasn’t too long ago that a YAG laser marking system was huge – both in physical size and in the capital needed to purchase one. The NANO laser from ID Technology and Macsa ID, has been specially engineered to be compact and easy to install at a total cost that brings the advantages of […]
Laser Marking Workstation
YAG and fiber lasers can provide a really effective means of marking items in a wide range of industries. When using these devices in semi-automatic applications, there are a number of critical factors that need to be taken into account: Safety is the most important. Because the frequency of the light emitted by YAG and […]
ID Technology in the Wine Business
Our Wine Country team has just finished exhibiting at the Wine & Grape Symposium in Sacramento. This really highlighted for me just how much of what we offer at ID Technology can help wine companies with identifying and tracking their products. At our booth we showed a range of solutions that are perfect for identifying […]
Datamatrix Code – How Much Data?
The Datamatrix barcode is great for industrial applications. It is robust, easy to print and can contain a lot of data in a small space. It can also be read using just about any 2D imaging barcode scanner – including smartphones. One question that comes up from time to time is exactly how much data […]
UDI & Medical Device Marking – Need Help?
Need help with labeling your products or UDI compliance? Do you need to mark products that undergo sterilization? Do you need to encode more than 20 characters of data in a barcode AND don’t have enough space available? These are just some of the ways ID Technology can help medical device manufacturers with everything labeling, […]
Resources for Produce Traceability Initiative (PTI)
If you are in the produce business and sell to Wal-Mart, you are either relaxing after getting all your compliance issues sorted (or have organized an exception with the buyer) or you are in a bit of a panic since there is no time left before the PTI mandate comes into effect. Whichever group you […]
Thermal Transfer Overprinter vs Hot Stamp Printer
There are a lot of tables and charts around that compare the costs of using either hot stamp or thermal coders for printing on labels and flexible packaging. You won’t find any of those in this article, but having used and sold both for many years, here is a personal view on the comparison. Some […]
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