Labeling Ideas

On Sunday, March 21, Caren Holliday (David’s lovely wife) and Stephanie Sullivan, along with some of the team at East Coast Styles opened the salon doors for “Cuts 4 a Cause – making the world better one snip at a time!” The idea was to put their time and talents to work cutting hair to raise money […]

Although the UDI rule will not become mandatory until 2013, this is a good time to start thinking about what changes you need to make to your labeling and data processes. Advanced planning and readiness now can better prepare you for action when the mandate is activated. Winco ID is going to be exhibiting at […]

Have you thought about expanding your business by selling to the Government and backed away when you found out what was involved? Or do you have a few Contracts and don’t know how to grow that part of your business. You’re not alone. But before you stop here, you will want to look at The […]

Memere(Noreen)  and Pepere (Perley) of Winco ID are proud to share their Granddaughter, Araya Sky, as she turns one on April 6th. Memere puts tiny clips in Araya’s hair – so pretty – and Araya takes them out – that’s Araya. One of her favorite games to play is hide ‘n seek. “Where’s Pepere?” says Memere. […]

Portability, wireless, RFID, mobility have all been popular buzz words.  Here Zebra put them all together in an interesting new printer – the RP4T. The new RP4T is unique in two respects. It is the only mobile printer that allows for thermal transfer printing – making it a great option for printing asset labels and […]

Winco ID has joined forces with LXE as member of the PartnerPass program. LXE manufactures a rugged line of mobile computing solutions to keep your workforce on the move and connected to corporate networks. Mobile computers are empowering workers to be more productive and accurate by capturing  data at the point of activity. With the […]

At the recent Intermec partners conference, our very own John Burke had the opportunity to discuss the concept of Smart Printing, along with Ed Weber from ToolWorx and Dan Cheresh of Informs. We are huge believers in the Smart Printing concept – using the processing power of today’s intelligent label printers to develop simple applications […]

Some time ago, I’d written a hands-on preview on the MP Series of printers from Datamax. At the time, there was a lot to love about this printer – especially the mobile version. Designed to be mounted onto fork lift vehicles, the MP Compact4 Mobile, was really simple in design and tough enough for even the […]

We are often asked to suggest which barcode is best for a particular application. Sometimes there is no choice. For compliance labeling, for example, the type of barcode to be used is normally specified by the organization concerned. This might be an international standard such as the SSCC codes specified by GS1 or a government […]

A guest post by Peter Green of BellHawk Systems. I am a big proponent of “license-plate” tracking (which is the global standard) whereby an item or container has a unique tracking barcode attached, just like the license plate on a car or truck, and then all the other information is stored or transmitted electronically. One […]