Can you imagine a world without product labels? Bottles and cans would look pretty sparse on the shelves of grocery stores and other retail outlets. These bottles are an example of what the shelves would look like and it is not very pretty. There are many ways to make labels that can make your product pop off the shelf.
For small quantities and total flexibility, one of the least expensive...
The demand for custom labels in Chicago is continuing to grow with all the food processing and confectionery business centralized in the central US for easy transportation around the country. Chicago is also a hot bed for manufacturers, technology, health care, distribution and many other custom label consumers like cosmetic labels in Illinois.
Custom food labels and confectionery in Chicago...
If you are tired of spending your precious time and money hand applying your custom product labels, stop! The solution that will allow you to stop paying several of your employees to hand apply custom labels to your products is a label applicator.
Label applicators allow people to put a quantity of labels into the applicator and it applies these labels to the product. These applicators are...
There have been a lot of inquiries into how to ship hazardous material and questioning whether you can ship it at all with today's transportation laws. The United States Department of Transportation (DOT) heavily regulates the transportation of materials in the United States.
The specific regulations define hazardous materials and specify how to conduct practically every aspect of hazardous...
UL stands for Underwriter Laboratories, which is an organization that is an independent, not-for-profit product safety certification organization that has been testing products for consumer safety for many years. Many of these products require a label to designate that the product has passed the UL inspection and is safe for the consumer.
UL labels can be complicated to understand because...
OK, I hear direct thermal, thermal transfer, polybopp, kimdura, jewelry, kapton, sticky, removable, permanent, tire adhesive, clean room, 3 inch core, 1 inch core, no core and more. How the heck does anyone make heads or tails out of what they need to make a decision on which barcode labels to use for what!
It is a crazy world out there and barcode labels are really making an impact on...
Are you dissatisfied with the print quality of your thermal transfer or direct thermal printer? Do they have unwanted lines and/or blank spots in the print? If so, your thermal transfer printhead might need cleaned or even replaced. The printhead is the most critical component of your thermal printer and one of the most delicate. Before deciding whether or not you need a new thermal transfer...
So you are thinking about asset tracking software for you business. There are a lot of options with as many price ranges to consider. Every time you call a business for help, they want to sell you a system that costs more then your total infrastructure. Asset Tracking SoftwareWell here are the basics to understand when shopping for the right asset tracking system for your business.
There are...
We hear the statement "disadvantages of barcode scanners" from time to time and as we probe the customers that believe this we find a common theme. Most customers that believe there are disadvantages of barcode scanners are customers that are not using them and keep a well managed manual system in place because it works for them.
Many manufacturers and distributors still manage inventory on...
Have you ever printed UL approved labels with your standard barcode printer and noticed that the ink was rubbing off? Did your Information Technology Staff think something was wrong with your printer because of this? The printer was actually doing its job just fine. The real problem was that the ribbon you were using wasn't a UL approved resin ribbon. Certain Ribbon, just like certain labels,...
