John Batterson Stetson is well known as being a pioneer of the American hat industry. The business he founded in 1865 was still operating in Philadelphia until the 1970’s. Indeed, the name Stetson is still found on modern day hats, although the Stetson company hasn’t made hats since the plant closure. As a proud owner […]
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.
Have a Great Christmas Everyone!
Well, 2012 is quickly coming to its end – we have had a successful year here at Winco ID and are looking forward to the challenges of 2013. Our office will be closed for the Holiday from 12.00 (Eastern) today and we’ll be back at work on December 26th – or some of us will be anyway! […]
Do You Know Your Barcodes?
The first patent for a barcode was issued to inventors Norman Joseph Woodland and Bernard Silver on October 7, 1952. Ever since its first commercial use in 1966, barcodes have become a ubiquitous part of our daily lives. From UPC codes on grocery items, to RFID tags on shipping pallets, barcodes enable tracking of products, […]
Logmatix® Warehouse Location Labels
How do you identify the various locations in your warehouse, stockroom or distribution center? Are your warehouse location labels barcoded for use with your WMS or inventory software? Is everything clearly identified to make it easy for your people to find the right locations for putting items away or for picking? Here at ID Technology, […]
Polyimide Labels
Polyimides were brought into production back in the 1950, and Polyimide Labels have been widely used in the electronics, aerospace and other industries for some time. Probably the most common polyimide material used for labeling applications is Dupont’s Kapton. What are Polyimide Labels? Kapton Polyimide film that is used for making labels is very well […]
Pantone Colour of 2013 – Emerald
If you are in the printing or graphics business, you’ll have used Pantone’s products – probably the little colour chips used to try and visually match colours. Well, each year the company has a Color of the Year and for 2013 it is Emerald, or 17-5641 in the Pantone numbering system. I have to say, […]
Kit Labels – Improve Labeling Efficiency
Do your labeling jobs often need sets of labels? If so, there is a good chance that the kit label concept might be helpful to you. The kit label concept involves creating a set of labels on a single roll. These are printed in one pass through the label printer so you can be sure […]
How Label Orientation Affects Printer Performance
Our service department sometimes receives calls from customers about the print quality of their barcodes; barcodes that are too light on an edge, or barcodes that don’t have enough contrast to scan properly. It turns out that these types of problems are sometimes not with the printer, but with the way the label printing is […]
Datamax & Zebra Printers – Network Issues
Earlier this year, I had written about the problems with Datamax printers disappearing from the network when attempting to send them label data to print. At the time, Datamax had just released new firmware for their printer models that was supposed to fix the issue. Did it work? Maybe it did to some extent, but […]
Barcodes and Error Correction
I’m a huge fan of 2D barcodes – whether the Datamatrix for industrial applications, QR Codes for cool marketing (and some industrial) stuff and Microsoft Tag for its design features – I use them all! While one of the huge advantages of 2D over linear barcodes is the fact more data can be encoded into […]
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