Important news for medical device manufacturers who need to label their Class III medical devices. The FDA has issued the Global Unique Device Identification Database (GUDID) draft guidance. This document contains all of the information labelers need to know about submitting data to the database. The GUDID stores key device information, and contains only the […]
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Matching a Laser to Your Application
Lasers have been used to mark products in industrial manufacturing for over 25 years. Lasers apply small character codes, like batch numbers, dates, etc.,) to packaged goods in industries such as food, electronics, and pharmaceuticals. The advantages of laser marking are many: you can permanently add the exact same mark to your product without any […]
Case Identification – Which Technology?
Introduction Modern packaging lines often have to be able to handle a wide range of products and package types. End-of-line case marking has had to become flexible as well in order to cost effectively identify secondary packaging by date, lot, quantity, barcode, and other information. Quite often each package is uniquely identified to meet traceability […]
Help with FDA UDI Compliance
This week we got together with a very motivated group of medical device manufacturers, as well as friends from Zebra Technologies and Flexcon, to discuss how to come up with a plan to meet the FDA’s new UDI Rule. Since the ruling was only published in late September, there were a lot of great questions […]
Labels for Memjet Printers
In the world of colour label printing, Memjet is the technology that seems to be catching on the fastest. There are a lot of Memjet label printers out there, including the VP700 that we can provide. Of course, having a printer with all the capabilities of the Memjet process is of no use without high […]
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