It is nice to see that the Intermec engineers have not been sitting around waiting for the Honeywell merger to finalize. A new product from their efforts has just been released, the PM23c Compact Barcode Label Printer. The new printer is basically a smaller version of the PM43c, repackaged to use a 2.2 inches wide […]
Labeling News
Learn more about the latest industry insights, innovative designs, and trade tips for labeling, coding, and marking machinery. These labelers and labeling systems work at high speeds to create effective labels for a wide range of container types.
Ergonomic Workstation for Citronix Inkjet Printers
The team at ID Technology has been busy and has produced a new stainless steel workstation to be used with the Citronix ciSeries Continuous inkjet printers. It makes a great stand for the printer and can be provided with a printhead service station as well as a caddy to hold the wash bottles, towels, etc […]
Intermec Smart Printing – Now With C# Programming
Our partners at Intermec have been the pioneers in the Smart Printing concept for years. If you use the Intermec Fingerprint language, you’ve been able to write applications that run on the printer, eliminating the need for a separate computer. The only problem has been that the Fingerprint programming is rather clunky (BASIC programming) and […]
VIPColor VP700 Memjet Printer
You might have read my review of the VIPColor printer VP495 that I posted a while ago. While this printer generally gives pretty good results, I was wishing that it was more industrial and used a printing system that would be faster than the moving head inkjet method. Is is clear that the colour printer […]
We Have Joined ID Technology
We are pleased to announce that Winco Identification is now part of ID Technology (a Pro Mach company). We see this as being a great match and it will enable us to expand our label manufacturing (we now have a network of 6 label converting plants) as well as add exciting new products to our […]
Zebra ZXP Series 1 Card Printer
Over the last couple of years, the folks at Zebra have been beavering away refining their line up of ID card printers. A new addition that is just arriving on the market is the low cost, ZXP Series 1. The new model is clearly based on the P100i printer (in fact other than the change […]
Datamax Performance Series Printers
Since our friends at Datamax-O’Neil acquired fellow printer manufacture, Source Technologies, the SourceTech printers are being re-branded as Datamax-O’Neil Performance Series. This is going to be a great addition to the Datamax product line up which previously consisted of very solid models such as the M and H-Class which had evolved over the years without any exciting new […]
Intermec 3400 4400 Series End of Service
Let’s face it, it you are still using any of the Intermec legacy printers, the old 3400 or 440 models, you’ve certainly had your money’s worth out of them. Chances are that your printer still works just fine, here at Winco we support a lot of them still. But here’s the deal, at the end […]
Intermec’s New SF61B Scanner
Intermec seems to have some pretty creative designers around these days and it is always interesting to see what they come up with next. I really like the styling of some of the newer Intermec mobile computers and the latest PM43 printers. The new flashlight style barcode scanners? Hmm, I’m not totally sold on these, […]
Datamax Acquires Source Technologies
I don’t know about you folks, but it never thrills me to see innovative small companies sell out to larger ones – especially in the label printer business where innovation is rather rare these days. So, I was none to happy to learn that Datamax-O’Neil has purchased Source Technologies – especially since we were just starting to […]