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At the recent Intermec partners conference, our very own John Burke had the opportunity to discuss the concept of Smart Printing, along with Ed Weber from ToolWorx and Dan Cheresh of Informs. We are huge believers in the Smart Printing concept – using the processing power of today’s intelligent label printers to develop simple applications […]

Some time ago, I’d written a hands-on preview on the MP Series of printers from Datamax. At the time, there was a lot to love about this printer – especially the mobile version. Designed to be mounted onto fork lift vehicles, the MP Compact4 Mobile, was really simple in design and tough enough for even the […]

We are often asked to suggest which barcode is best for a particular application. Sometimes there is no choice. For compliance labeling, for example, the type of barcode to be used is normally specified by the organization concerned. This might be an international standard such as the SSCC codes specified by GS1 or a government […]

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 […]

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 […]