Seagull Scientific’s BarTender label software has always been pushing the limits when it comes to including useful new features. The latest release, version 9.3 includes a lot of new ideas – one of my favorites is weigh scale integration. Quite often, labels need to include weight fields and the new BarTender interfaces directly with many of […]
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Replacing Paper Forms with Barcode Scanning
“There is nothing as inexpensive or as flexible as a number 2 pencil and a paper form, which is why many organizations continue to use them” – writes my friend Peter Green from BellHawk Systems. “Then they manually key the data written on the paper forms into Excel spreadsheets, or their ERP or accounting system, […]
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 – […]
New Label Offers ESD Protection
A new label made of antistatic materials offers protection from electrostatic discharge on your PC boards. Even the smallest and most complex components can be protected from ESD throughout the life of the label. These labels protect against ESD in two ways: first by eliminating the charge that can occur when the label is removed from […]
New Bluetooth 2D Scanner from Symbol
The DS6708 scanner from Symbol has been one of the best scanner for reading 2D barcodes such as Datamatrix for ages. The biggest problem has been that it is tethered, it needs to be connected to the host computer by a USB or keyboard cable – not the most mobile solution. To be fair, there […]
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