Labeling Ideas

Today’s businesses across all industries are keenly aware of the need for security and efficiency to survive and thrive. These are the top two reasons that drive companies to look into ID badge systems. Advances in ID card technology allows for easy, flexible customized access control, identification, and tracking to protect your business. These same […]

The majority of the UID labels we ship are either white or silver in colour. Sometimes this doesn’t make sense; for example, we have a number of clients manufacturing night vision or similar equipment. It clearly isn’t sensible to stick a bright coloured label onto these products, but they are still required to have the […]

Fresh produce growers are familiar with the Produce Traceability Initiative and its goal to achieve supply chain-wide adoption of electronic traceability by the year 2012. But if you are unfamiliar with barcoding technology, then you might not know exactly what it is you need that will give you a complete tracking solution. PTI will require […]

If your goal is to implement the Produce Traceability Initiative (PTI) in your business, then you are aware of the industry-wide effort to create a process to trace produce cases throughout the supply chain.  The PTI offers an implementation “toolkit” to help you reach your goal. On the PTI webpage you can find specifics about each one of […]

The GS1 128 barcode has become a standard in many industries for allowing data to be encoded into barcodes using standard formats so that the data can be used in applications all over the world. It has become a standard tool for organizations wanting to improve their supply chain visibility. Probably the biggest downside to […]

Getting those DoD contracts can be really important for your business, but often there are clauses that are somewhat unclear. One of these relates to the UID marking clause – DFARS 252.211-7003, which covers Item Identification and Valuation. If this clause appears in your contract, there is a very good chance that you will need […]

A short while ago, I came across a guy on Twitter by the name of Max Winograd. Max is the president of a startup company called NuLabel Technologies and one of the concepts he is working on is a new linerless label product. I thought this was rather interesting, having spent a fair bit of time […]

Today’s thermal transfer printers have come a long way. Gone are the days of limited models to select. You now choose the right printer to match your application; from small, compact, low volume printers, to wireless, portable and industrial strength work horses designed to thrive in harsh environments. More businesses across various industries rely on these printers as part of production, assembly, […]

There are times when I think the folks over at Zebra Technologies have too much fun. The world of barcode printers isn’t really that exciting most of the time, but the Zebra team seem to delight in coming up with super innovative ideas that make a difference. In recent times, we’ve seen the mobile RFID […]

Our good friends at Seagull Scientific have made some changes to the licensing for the popular BarTender Automation and Enterprise software. BarTender Automation and Enterprise is licensed by the number of printers in use, and it uses a License Server application to control this. Problems have arisen when network or server issues have caused the client computers […]