Intermec SR61 Scanner Review

Intermec SR61 Hands-on Review When it comes to barcode scanners, I’d be the first to admit that I usually turn to Symbol. Whether the low cost laser scanners for linear barcodes or cordless scanners, I’ve always found the Symbol products to be really nicely thought out – and basically just work. Anyway, just for a [...]

Intermec 3240 Hands-on Review

Intermec 3240 – the retro label printer The Intermec website says: “ In addition to printing on small or oddly shaped labels, the 3240 is perfect for printing on a variety of substrates that are difficult to print on, such as Kapton or ultra-smooth polyesters and synthetics” Since we produce and print a lot of [...]

Zebra HC100 – Hands-on Review

Patient Identification – the new standard There has been a lot of attention given to patient safety of late and being able to quickly and accurately identify patients is the starting point of any patient safety (and billing) system. Using wristbands as a form of patient identification has been around for a long time – [...]

Zebra Portable RFID Printer – First Thoughts

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 [...]

Review – Cognex Dataman 750s

Barcoding is getting  more sophisticated and demanding all the time and this is clear in the rise of 2D barcodes. Along with the well known linear barcodes, 2D versions such as Datamatrix, QR Code and PDF417 are used much more than in the past – especially in the DoD labeling world where we do a [...]

RFID Label Printer Shootout!

RFID Label Printers Compared Since Winco ID is involved with helping our customers use labels and barcoding to improve their processes, we get to check out a lot of the latest products. For example, I’ve been really lucky over the last few months to have the opportunity to work with 4 different RFID printers from [...]

Tharo RFID Reader: Hands-On Review

For as long as I can remember, I’ve been complaining about the high price of handheld RFID readers. Our RFID clients are all in the DoD world and need to be able to show their DCMA QAR people that the RFID labels they are sticking to their boxes, crates and pallets actually work and have [...]

Intermec CK3 Hands-On

 In a warehouse environment, there is often a need to be able to scan barcodes over long distances. You might have to read a barcode that is suspended from a sign way up in the ceiling or on a label that is on a pallet that happens to be right on the top level of [...]

Datamax MP Series – Hands on Preview

Datamax MP Series – Hands on Preview Our friends at Datamax recently dropped off one of their new MP printers – the MP Compact4 Mobile – for us to check out. A very interesting little device it is. The MP printers were originally manufactured by Markprint, a Swedish maker of thermal printing systems. Over time [...]