A pre-printed shipping carton provides a way to economically package your product(s), enhance your company’s image, and makes your product easy to find during transportation or at the end-user warehouse. There is a risk, however, that pre-printed information may change before your inventory is completely used. Some examples are address, name of product, colors, descriptions, […]
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.
Why Barcode a Berry?
Many small farmers, growers, or food processors still use manual methods for controlling the various functions in their business. Perhaps they don’t want to invest in auto ID equipment because they think it’s too expensive, or maybe they don’t see the need for this technology in their small business. However, there are inefficiencies in small […]
When To Use A Label Printing Service
Using labels to identify and keep track of things is not a new concept. Neither is barcoding. Today, barcode labels are used for even more complex tracking such as work in process, warranty support, service maintenance records, and protection in the event of a recall. But if you can’t print your labels, do you find […]
Time To Say Goodbye
Congratulations to Perley Wheeler, who has decided to trade full-time employment for the good life of retirement. As of Friday, April 5, Perley will retire from Winco ID. Perley came to Winco almost 12 years ago, and has worked in the shipping department ever since. Any shipment delivered to your dock was most likely packaged […]
BarTender Templates MIL-STD-129 Updated
Some time ago I put together a set of label templates to help contractors comply with MIL-STD-129 and the RFID mandate. Over the last couple of years, there have been several revisions – usually because someone pointed out a problem or because we found a better way to do things. I’ve just finished the latest version – […]
BIOMEDevice Boston – Anti-Counterfeiting Ideas
Next week is the BIOMEDevice Boston trade show where medical device designers, engineers, researchers and manufacturers gather to share ideas and learn about new innovations. Manufacturers in all sectors though have to deal with the complex problem of protecting their brand from fake products and diversion. As counterfeiters become more adept at altering packaging to get their products into […]
BIOMEDevice Boston – FDA UDI Labeling
If you are in the New England area and involved in the medical device industry, chances are you’ll be visiting the BIOMEDevice Show in Boston. You are probably also wondering about the proposed Unique Device Identification (UDI) rules from the FDA will affect your labeling operations. We’ll be there at Booth 247 and will be showing how companies […]
Intermec PM43 IPL Considerations
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 […]
Medical Device Manufacturers: UDI Isn’t Going Away
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 […]
Datamax Firmware – RFID Problem
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 […]
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