Labeling Ideas

You would think that barcode scanners in hospitals would have an easy life, right? Nice clean conditions, very well educated users, no getting run over by forklift trucks or being dropped on concrete floors – living in air conditioned luxury. As it turns out, it isn’t so easy in hospital scannerville. That very cleanliness is the enemy of most barcode scanners […]

Who among us hasn’t heard of bad beef and pork products causing death due to contamination, or disgust from finding out what you just ate, wasn’t really what you thought it was? As a consumer, I want to know what I’m eating. So when I go to the grocery store, I would like to know […]

A big part of our business is keeping our client’s barcode label printers working at their best. We know full well that for a lot of our customers, labels are one of the last things they think about – they have plenty of other things in their day to day duties that require more of their attention. […]

The last couple of years have seen some changes in barcode scanner technology – in particular how imager type scanners are gradually taking over from laser based ones. For 2D barcodes such as the Datamatrix and QR Codes, there is no contest, it has to be an imager based scanner, but until recently I always preferred laser […]

Even though I’d class myself as a rather enthusiastic barcode guy, I’ve never thought I’d want to hang a barcode on my wall. Let’s face it, as useful as that Code 128 or even the QR Codes might be, they are not going to be winning any beauty contests. However, the other day Bret daCosta […]

My friend Donny who prints a lot of the press printed labels here at ID Technology’s Nashua, NH plant, showed me these cool black polyester labels he had been converting. Custom made for a particular client, the labels are made from durable white polyester film which is floodcoated in black, then covered with a durable thermal transfer […]

Patient wristbands are being used to ensure patients, tests, and their records are accurately identified. Barcodes are added for increased functionality and rapid processing of this information throughout the patient’s stay. From admissions, laboratory, pharmacy, phlebotomy, through discharge processing and medical records that wristband is the key to positive identification and quality patient care. A […]

I was reading this interesting article on seafood fraud and traceability in The Wall Street Journal the other day. I had no idea of the scale of fraud in the food industry (not just seafood) which is estimated to cost $10 billion a year in the US alone. Add to this the current issues in […]

One of our clients is a large regional hospital with a renowned oncology department. It was considered important that the tests sent to the lab from cancer patients get priority handling so the labels are color coded to make them stand out from the other test samples that would be in process at the same time. The […]

You know the problem, you are using Excel as the database to print your labels using BarTender and when you select the records, BarTender insists on selecting a lot of blank rows. This is irritating because you’ll either have blank labels coming out of your printer, or you’ll need to manually deselect those unwanted rows. One of […]