Do your labeling jobs often need sets of labels? If so, there is a good chance that the kit label concept might be helpful to you. The kit label concept involves creating a set of labels on a single roll. These are printed in one pass through the label printer so you can be sure […]
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How Label Orientation Affects Printer Performance
Our service department sometimes receives calls from customers about the print quality of their barcodes; barcodes that are too light on an edge, or barcodes that don’t have enough contrast to scan properly. It turns out that these types of problems are sometimes not with the printer, but with the way the label printing is […]
Honeywell to Buy Intermec
We’ve been an Intermec partner for quite a while so were interested to see the news that the company is looking to sell itself to Honeywell for about $600 million. Honeywell has been on an acquisition spree in the Auto ID business over the last few years, having already bought Hand Held Products, Metrologic and LXE. […]
Honeywell 8650 Ring Scanner Review
I’m always surprised that products like the Honeywell 8650 scanner are not more widely used – they seem to be a concept that could make life easier for a large group of users. Imagine that you work in a busy warehouse or distribution center. A big part of your day consists of moving boxes or […]
Datamax & Zebra Printers – Network Issues
Earlier this year, I had written about the problems with Datamax printers disappearing from the network when attempting to send them label data to print. At the time, Datamax had just released new firmware for their printer models that was supposed to fix the issue. Did it work? Maybe it did to some extent, but […]
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