If you are in the New England area and involved in the medical device industry, chances are you’ll be visiting the BIOMEDevice Show in Boston. You are probably also wondering about the proposed Unique Device Identification (UDI) rules from the FDA will affect your labeling operations. We’ll be there at Booth 247 and will be showing how companies […]
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Intermec Legacy Printheads – End of Service
Our friends over at Intermec have told us that the end of this year (December 31, 2013) will be the last date that Intermec will ship printheads for the 4400 and 3400 printer models (the 3240 printer is also at the end of its build life, but will be supported for a little longer). If you […]
Intermec PM43 IPL Considerations
When I reviewed the new Intermec PM43 printer, I mentioned that it didn’t behave the way I would have expected when using IPL. At the time, it seemed that IPL support was somewhat lacking, which seemed odd as just about every Intermec customer of ours uses their printer in IPL mode. We were particularly frustrated at one […]
Medical Device Manufacturers: UDI Isn’t Going Away
If you work in the medical device manufacturing or healthcare industry, you’ll want to understand the issues behind the UDI task force. Take a few minutes and watch this video from GS1 called, “Standardization….Stat! Improving the Healthcare Supply Chain with Data Standards.” Now you can see why a unique, global identifier is needed to ensure product/equipment […]
Datamax Firmware – RFID Problem
Just a quick note for anyone having problems with Datamax RFID printers. We have had three printers (two brand new from Datamax and one an RFID retrofit) where the RFID module refused to encode the tag in the labels. This became rather frustrating for a while, until the problem was solved by using a new […]