Best Protection When Manufacturer’s Warranty Changes

When you decide it's time to trade in your bar code printer or buy a new one, be sure you take a closer look at the warranty coverage. [caption id="attachment_1437" align="alignright" width="200" caption="Check the manufacturer warranty and service coverage"][/caption] If you have purchased a particular brand of printers in the past, you will want to check to see if the warranty coverage has changed. For example, the Datamax/O'Neil line of printers is now a one-year coverage instead of two or three, depending on the model, as in previous years. And they are not the only manufacturer making changes. For you, the consumer, the ...

UID and RFID Labeling Simplified

Do you sell to the government? Will your products end up in the DoD supply chain? If so, you will need to comply with MIL-STD-130 including UID labeling, or MIL-STD-129 including RFID labeling or maybe both. This requires a complete understanding of the work flow from getting the labels right to managing the data via WAWF and UID Registry. And it's proven that most don't get their labels right the first time. This can translate to delay in shipments and certainly impact the timeliness of getting paid! Worst case is, you may be subject to penalties that can exceed your profit on the ...

Winco Labels

Ever wonder how your labels are made? Maybe not. But if you've ever had to label odd shaped or irregular surfaces, items that will be exposed to chemicals, moisture, outdoor elements, high temperatures, freezers, really small places, or other harsh environments, you probably thought more about it. We've had some of our customers come to our Nashua facility and were amazed to see just how labels are actually made - right here. It starts with rolls of raw material stock moving through a press - similar to the look of a printing press. The bottom of the photo shows the raw ...

News

New Cognex Dataman 8000 Series

August 31, 2010 · View Comments

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... [Read the full story]

People | Events

Welcome Baby Light

July 6, 2010 · View Comments

On June 28th at 10:15am, Jazara Grace was born to proud parents, Bernadette and Gary Light and joins her sister, Ayanna. Weighing in at 4 pounds 3 ounces and 17 inches long, this little girl is big on sweetness. Some of our readers may know Dad Gary from our Service... [Read the full story]

What's New

New Cognex UID Verifier

August 11, 2010 · View Comments

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... [Read the full story]

Ideas

Don’t Let TSA Mandates Slow Your Shipments

In 2007, Congress passed the 9/11 Act requiring that 100% of the cargo originating in the US that is transported on passenger airplanes be screened in the same way as passenger luggage. The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is charged with enforcing this mandate; the deadline for meeting this mandate...

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GS1 – The Value Chain

GS1 is the organisation responsible for many of the standards that make supply chains work. If you are here in the US, you probably still think of GS1 as the UCC – the group that set up the UPC barcode standard many years ago. To enable tracking and traceability, there are two important parts – the data...

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Can Cloud Computing Save You Money?

“Can cloud computing save you money? Probably, but what problems does it bring with it?” states Dr. Peter Green of BellHawk Systems Corporation. For most mid-sized manufacturing companies, cloud computing means moving from having their accounting, MRP, CRM and barcode tracking hosted on their own computers...

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