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As we approach the holidays and anticipate the coming New Year, we stop and think of those who have enriched our lives in different ways. So we are sending you, our valued customers, partners, and friends, heartfelt good wishes for a joyous holiday season.

For the 2012 Holiday Season, we will be closed:

Monday, December 24

Tuesday, December 25

Tuesday, January 1, 2013

Using standard passive Gen 2 RFID tags on metal surfaces can be tricky because the interference from the metal detunes the tag’s antenna. Several workarounds exist to avoid this problem, such as using foam spacers to keep the tag’s antenna away from the metal surface, or building a metallic backplane into the tag.

Sometimes, though, these workarounds don’t solve your whole problem. What if the RFID tag come in contact with solvents or environmental factors that could ruin the spacer material? Or what if the tag is exposed to harsh industrial applications or drastic temperatures. 

Rigid RFID tags can solve these problems. The RFID tag is enclosed in tough plastic, making it durable, reusable, and resistant to chemicals and weather. And they can adhere to metal and other tough-to-tag surfaces.

If you are having difficulty using RFID tags on metal or other surfaces, give us a call and we can help you find a solution.

Keeping label files under control

 
Let’s face it – in a lot of businesses, there isn’t good control of the different label files that are used.
 
Often labels are stored on the hard drives of individual PCs and even if kept in a shared folder, the labels are often altered without the correct control procedures being followed.
 
When a company has a number of locations, keeping control of the files and changes to them becomes very important.
 
To help with this, our friends at Seagull Scientific have come up with a new application called BarTender Librarian. The idea behind Librarian is to allow groups of designers, users and administrators work together to manage the storage and revisions of label files.

Librarian improves security by keeping al the labels in a secure database structure, rather than having loose files scattered around on different PCs. An approval workflow can be set up that ensures labels cannot be used until they have passed through the correct procedures and revisions can be easily managed.

Bartender Librarian is just one of the applications included in the Bartender Suite. It just keeps getting better.

Want to learn more about Bartender label software and how it can simplify your labeling operations? Just give me a call at 603-598-1553 x237