At our recent Barcodes & Baseball event, our friend Peter Green from BellHawk Systems gave a great presentation on using cloud computing to enhance inventory and production control and to help elliminate errors. Here is his presentation from the event: Barcodes & the cloud Want to learn more about how innovative barcode and RFID solutions […]
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.
SmartPrinting – No PC Required!
How to eliminate PCs, terminals, and label errors with Smart Printers Guest Article by Ed Weber of ToolWorx Have you or any member of your organization ever put a wrong label on the wrong part or container? If so, then congratulations. That just means you’re human and, like every human, you make human mistakes. But […]
It’s Just a Sticker, Right?
Quite often I get asked what our company does and it is time for the good old “elevator speech” to be rolled out. You know the “Winco makes labels and uses them as part of solutions to help people be able to improve their business and make things work better” kind of thing. Of course, […]
Buying a Label Printer
If you find yourself faced with sourcing a new barcode label printer, what do you consider first? Here at ID Technology, we help people with this just about every day. These are the steps I take… 1. Application I like to look at the application itself first because this determines the specs and features of […]
Why Traceability Matters in Recall Management
A top priority for many food producers is managing recalls with their suppliers and distributors. So why is it that many estimate that a recall would take days rather than hours? It is because they still use manual systems to trace products back to the source when a recall occurs. There are lots of reasons […]
QR Codes for Industry
These days QR Codes seem to be everywhere. Mainly in consumer applications where they are used to make static items such as advertisements more dynamic by linking to web pages. Our view has always been that these QR Codes are fine for this kind of thing but for us, the more industrial types, the best […]
Eliminate Costly Footsteps – Mobile Carts
Here’s a great little video from our partner (and good friends) Newcastle Systems Have you thought about how much time is wasted in your organization by people having to walk around. With mobile workstations from Newcastle, we can bring your labeling to the point is is needed. Give me a call at 603-598-1553 to learn […]
Making our Assets Talk – slide deck
Using our Winco labels and other solutions, we help our clients get better control of their operations by giving a voice to assets and other items so they can give us useful information. Here is my slide deck on the topic from the recent Barcodes & Baseball Event. Can your assets talk? Info on Datamatrix […]
Finally, FDA Proposes UDI Ruling
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has released a proposed rule mandating that most medical devices distributed in the United States carry a unique device identifier, or UDI. Back in 2007, Congress passed legislation requiring the FDA to develop regulations to establish a unique device identification system for medical devices. The UDI system can help […]
Buying a Label Printer – Resolution
So you’ve determined that you need to purchase a label printer and one of the first things you notice is that there is a choice of printhead resolution. Many models come in 203 and 300 dots per inch versions, others might add 400 or 600 dots per inch to the mix. You’ll notice that the price […]
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