Our good friends the label printer manufacturers often have trade-in deals, whether to encourage us resellers to promote their products or end users to buy them. One of the first to emerge for 2013 is the new Datamax-O’Neil deal for 2013. It is valid from now until the end of March and applies to just two models, the I-Class MkII and […]
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Phlebotomist Labeling At The Bedside Reduces Errors
Most phlebotomists spend a great deal of their day on the move, from patient to patient. With each new patient comes a sample or a collection of specimens. The importance of labeling each one with the correct information that ties that sample to the correct patient, on a specific date/time, has no room for error. […]
Steps to Improve Lab Labeling
Are you using barcoding in your healthcare lab? If not, you should. There are a number of good reasons why barcoded labels are the best method for identifying that important specimen, and why barcoding is commonplace in successful laboratories. Your labels contain critical information about the sample it is put on. If you or someone […]
Mobile Carts for Healthcare
In healthcare organizations, the amount of gear that has to be used by nurses, physicians and others is always increasing. Computers, tablets, printers, barcode scanners – more all the time. Traditionally, a lot of this equipment would be installed at a central location – at the nurses station for example, meaning that staff would need to go […]
High Temperature Labels
High temperature labels are needed for a lot of applications. In the electronics industry, in aerospace, in automotive, labels have to be able to withstand high temperatures and still be perfectly readable, whether human readable text or barcodes. For these applications, our Polyimide (Kapton) labels are perfect. They are available in several colours and meet specifications […]