Using Vendor Applied Barcodes for Tracking

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 big [...]

Google’s QR Code Generator

My friend Tim over at Zebra (@ZebraTechnology) posted a link on Twitter to this clever little service offered by Google.
The QR Code Generator lets you make your own QR Codes in a number of formats.
The code you see here is my Winco ID contact information that I encoded on the site.
It is simple to populate [...]

Food Safety? There’s an app for that!

If you want to keep up with news about our food supply chain, the Food Safety News site is a great place to start.
Whatever your interest, maybe in legislation, recalls, the politics of the food business, you’ll find some good content.
To make it easier to keep up, the FSN folks have just launched their own [...]

What is Mobility?

Guest post by Terran Churcher of Codegate
What do you think of when you hear the word “Mobility”? A fully integrated mobile worker solution incorporating hardware and software, increasing visibility and remote worker management; or a four wheeled motorised scooter and other physical mobility aids? I have a sneaking suspicion that the majority would associate “Mobility” [...]

Which Edition of BarTender?

Bartender is a great label program, but it can be tricky trying to figure out which edition you need.
Seagull Scientific currently has no less than six editions, from the incredibly powerful enterprise Print Server down to the (very) Basic Edition.
Like most of the label software companies, Seagull has published charts of all the features in [...]

RFID Compliance Kit from Winco ID

Do you have to comply with the MIL-STD-129 labeling rules? Looking for a way to get into compliance quickly and easily?
Quite often we are asked to put together a proposal for an RFID labeling solution for our DoD contractor customers. One that’s easy to get started (as often there is a deadline involved) and one [...]

Special Deals on RedBeam

If you need to keep track of your assets or inventory, RedBeam software offers a simple and economical approach.
RedBeam is available in Inventory, Assets and Check in/Check out versions and can be used both on a PC or a selection of mobile devices.
Right now, RedBeam is also offering a special deal: For a limited time [...]

David’s Tech Tip – Barcoding with your Epilog Laser

I must say, I’m always impressed with what a great job the Eplilog laser engravers do – on all kinds of applications.
One we have seen a lot of recently is the need to be able to engrave barcodes onto items; particularly high quality UID marks.
Did you know that a simple way to get into barcoding [...]

New RFID Reader – MC3090-Z

We often include a handheld RFID reader with our DoD labeling solutions.
Problem is that we have not had too many too choose from.
We started with offering the Symbol MC9060 which does a great job but is a huge overkill for the simple tasks most of our clients need to use it for. Looking for something [...]

Automating UID Verification

The Microscan UID Verifier does a great job of ensuring that all your labels are compliant with the MIL-STD-130.
The problem is that when you have a lot of labels to verify, it can be a very tedious and time consuming job.
Here at Winco ID, we often have to verify UID labels that we convert and [...]

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