Labeling News

The market for small desktop label printers is one of the most competitive in the business. It also has strong growth as more organizations are discovering that distributing printing to a number of printers, close to where the label is needed, is often a better option than having centrally located more industrial printers. Datamax’s contender […]

For a while it seems that the companies building mobile devices have been really focused on building out their smart phone type products. It is nice to report that there seems to be a change in emphasis. New rugged devices for industrial applications are appearing –  starting with the Intermec 70 Series and now the new Tecton […]

The CK71 is part of Intermec’s brand new 70 Series of mobile computers. Over the last few years Intermec (and other manufacturers of this kind of equipment) seem to have been focused on making their devices smaller, lighter and more like cellphones. As a result there has been a lack of innovation in the more […]

It is nice to see a new rugged portable printer launched by our friends at Datamax-O’Neil. Despite its name, I don’t believe Ralph Lauren was involved in the design, but Paul Lehmann was, so it should be good. The idea behind the RL4 is that is a really rugged machine, designed to be used in […]

It seems that all the data collection manufactures have been spending all their time of late bringing out new smartphone type devices. It is nice to see that the folks at Symbol recognize that there is still a need to evolve the humble barcode scanner and their new CS3000 is a good example of scanner […]

I find it interesting that all the manufacturers of industrial mobile devices have noticed that while they have some nice rugged mobile computers in their product lines, a lot of people don’t want to use them because they are too big and bulky. What many users want is something m0re Blackberry or iPhone sized. As […]

The folks at Primara have been busy for quite a while, changing how quality multicolor labels can be printed on-demand. They’ve just taken things another step by introducing an RFID enabled color printer – the RX900. The RX900 is intended for applications such as asset tracking, garment tagging and applications such as file folder labeling […]

For quite a while, Cognex has made one of the best high end barcode scanners, the Dataman 7000. We have sold a bunch of them, especially the version that can be used to verify UID marks. Well, everything changes and the 7000 is about to be replaced by the new Dataman 8000 series. While a lot […]

A few months ago I was shown some pictures of the beta version of what has become the LXE Marathon. At the time I thought it was rather interesting, but I wasn’t able to see how it would be something our customers would need. Well, the product has now been officially announced and here’s a […]

Let’s face it, there isn’t a huge amount of choice when looking to purchase a UID Verifier. I’ve always liked the handheld UID Verifier made by our friends at Cognex, but not the desktop version – I’ve tended to stick with the RVSI/Siemens/Microscan verifier for most of our labeling jobs. To bring the verifier line […]