You know the problem – your packaging lines are in a very confined space and the last thing you need is for your people to have to fight their way past big printer applicators that take up much of the aisle space. Most label printer applicators certainly take up a fair amount of space, the […]
Labeling Ideas
Browse through these labeling ideas to learn more about how you can utilize labeling machinery for you specific product requirements. Labeling machinery is versatile to accommodate diverse applications. View these articles to learn about labelers and labeling machinery along with labeling solutions.
What I Want in a Colour Label Printer
Bringing digital colour technology to on demand label printers is something that is picking up some momentum. Regulatory requirements, such as GHS, are causing printer users in industry to take a hard look at options for colour printers and there are a lot of other great reasons for wanting to be able to print high quality colour labels, […]
Would a Label Printer Applicator Benefit You?
A label printer applicator is a machine that automatically prints and applies pressure sensitive labels to products. If you print lots of shipping labels, content labels, labels with variable barcodes and product information or graphics, then a label printer applicator can benefit you. The label printer applicator consists of three main parts: A print engine that […]
Colordyne CDT: 1600 C Memjet Printer
I hope you are not getting bored with my search for the perfect Memjet based label printer. This time I’m taking a look at Colordyne’s offering, the CDT: 1600 C. Like all the other Memjet powered devices, it has the usual 1600 DPI resolution, a print width of something more than 8 inches and prints […]
Afinia L801 Memjet Colour Label Printer
If you’ve been looking through the world of Memjet based label printers, you might have come across this one – the Afinia L801 Memjet Printer. Not only does this Afinia look remarkably like the VIPColor VP700 printer, it is confirmed as being the exact same machine. Which one of these companies actually builds the machine? […]
Printing Linerless Labels
Way back in time, I had written about linerless labels and how the market for them has never really developed. It is interesting that, although I don’t recall the last time we were asked to quote any of these, the article is one of the most visited at Labeling News. There is clearly a level […]
powered by Pro Mach
Now that Winco ID is a part of ID Technology, we also belong to the wider Pro Mach family. Pro Mach, Inc. has become one of the largest packaging equipment companies here in the US and has acquired many well known machinery brands over the last few years – you can check out the Pro […]
Wal-Mart, Labeling and the PTI
If you are in the produce business, chances are you’ve paid at least some attention to the Produce Traceability Initiative – generally referred to as the PTI. We have certainly spoken with many people over the last couple of years, but PTI compliance has tended to be somewhere on the horizon and doesn’t seem to have gotten the mind share it really deserves. When Wal-Mart announce […]
Variable Data on Pharma Labels
With the increased demand for item level serialization of pharmaceutical products (the new rules having finally been passed) and the increase in barcoding, pharmaceutical packagers often have to look at ways of adding variable text and barcodes to primary product labels. Traditionally, pharma labels are imprinted with date and lot codes right on the labeling […]
Which Zebra Card Printer? ZXP 1 or ZXP 3?
Our friends at Zebra have done a great job of getting their card printer line up into shape. The project started with the hi-tech ZXP8 and now the product line up looks to be complete with the low end (or Standard as the Zebra peeps call it) ZXP1. At the lower rung of the ZXP […]
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