Category Archives: Barcode Industry

Find out what is changing in the barcode industry and how it will effect you as a customer. Many efficiencies are made every day in barcode technology, so staying close to the industry is key.

Stanford Hospital improves Patient Safety using bar coding

Stanford Hospital improves Patient Safety using bar coding Internationally acclaimed Stanford Hospital & clinics are some of the most advanced and respected medical facilities in the United States today. Often known for the high level of patient care, as well as treatments of rare, complex disorders have made the Stanford medical facilities one of a [...]

RFID Enhanced Drivers Licenses Replace Passports

RFID Enhanced Drivers Licenses Replace Passports Only six months ago, the Secretary of state for Michigan began taking applications for RFID chip enhanced drivers licenses. Since then, over 80,000 applications have been received, and the trend is growing. Why are so many people in Michigan switching over to these high-tech drivers licenses? The main reason: [...]

RFID Chips Help Improve Asset Tracking

Using RFID To Track Your Assets Due to our current global economic situation, many companies around the world are doing everything they can to cut their costs. One of the growing trends lately in an effort to save money has been improving asset tracking. There are a few major issues that have arisen from poor [...]

Net Flex Flexible Ribbon

Net Flex iimak has introduced a new Thermal Transfer ribbon for flexible packaging coders, the new Net Flex wax/resin for near edge thermal transfer printers. This new ribbon features anti-static formulation, and delivers blacker, bolder print with greater durability and with print speeds up to 24 IPS. The new Net Flex ribbon is compatible with [...]

Consecutive Numbered & Barcode Labels

Consecutive Numbered & Barcode Labels Initially developed to help speed up grocery store checkout speed, consecutively numbered, barcode labels and variable data labels have since become a large part of our retail industry.  Now a staple point of any company who needs to ship their products, and keep accurate inventory, barcode labels have exploded into one [...]

UPC Codes Show Country Of Origin

UPC Codes Show Country Of Origin With all the tainted products being imported these days, its hard to trust out of country products. Often times in recent memory, Chinese products have been the focus of many of these investigations as manufacturing standards and laws are simply out of date. With so many problems, Americans have [...]

What is a UPC Code?

What is a UPC Code? You know how every time you go to the grocery store, the clerk has to scan those little black lines into his computer before you can pay? Well those little black lines, or the UPC code, plays a vital role in today’s world. Almost every product on the market today [...]

Microscan Reveals First Liquid Lens Barcode Imager – QX Hawk

Microscan Announces the World’s First Liquid Lens Barcode Imager   The QX Hawk is the world’s first Barcode Imager to be fully integrated with new liquid lens technology, enabling infinite focus flexibility. Bridging the gap between ease of use and performance, the QX Hawk features a high resolution modular optical zoom system, aggressive X-Mode decoding, [...]

The 35th Anniversary of the Barcode

You know those black and white lines on the back or side of your drink you bought at the store? Or maybe those weird lines on your pack of gum? Those lines, are called a Barcode or U.P.C code.  Well, today is the 35th anniversary of the Universal Product Code (U.P.C.) Barcode and will be [...]

Beauty & Personal Care Labels

Beauty and Personal care labeling can be a tough market, but with advances in technology, you can stay ahead of the competition with cold foil labels.