Category Archives: How to Information

This is a category that will provide information on how to use this blog, how to use certain barcode equipment, how to print labels and more.

What They Don’t Tell You In The Barcode Scanner Manual

November 13, 2009 – 12:09 pm

Have you ever plugged your blue tooth barcode scanner into your computer with a keyboard wedge, taken the scanner off the base station, scanned a barcode and all looks good, except the barcode does not scan into the computer? You try scanning the barcode on the base station to re-sync the scanner to the base [...]

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Food & Beverage Labels

November 9, 2009 – 1:50 pm

Food & Beverage Labels
                 Whether you’re at the local grocery store buying food, or beverages, sauces, condiments or other foods, you will see labels on it all.  If you own a local deli or store of your own, you know that every product you sell or buy has a label. In today’s world, one of [...]

By Tommy Schweller | Also posted in Custom Labels, Food Labels, Uncategorized | Tagged , , , | Comments (0)

RFID Chips Help Improve Asset Tracking

November 5, 2009 – 2:15 pm

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 asset [...]

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Consecutive Numbered & Barcode Labels

October 26, 2009 – 11:18 am

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 of [...]

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UPC Codes Show Country Of Origin

October 22, 2009 – 9:17 am

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Chinese products have been the focus of many of these investigations as manufacturing standards and laws are simply out of date.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 begun [...]

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What is a UPC Code?

October 20, 2009 – 12:26 pm

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 now has [...]

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Bokode: The New Barcode

August 20, 2009 – 10:47 am

The new Bokode can store 1000x what a regular barcode can hold, and uses affordable technology that could change the way barcodes are used forever.

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Chemical Labeling in Our World

July 27, 2009 – 2:14 pm

The chemical industry today is going through some of the most extensive changes in its history. With so many regulatory agencies in place today, the chemical industry has had to face many challenges that have been troubling for business. All sectors of the industry, including suppliers and buyers of the chemicals will have to prepare [...]

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Brand Name Ink vs. Generic Ink

June 8, 2009 – 1:59 pm

                                               Generic Inks: Are they really the same?
                With some of the high costs that can be associated with buying ink or ink cartridges, at some point the question will be raised, should I buy generic? Should I just refill my old ink cartridge? Buy a new name brand?  With tougher economic times, and companies [...]

By Tommy Schweller | Also posted in Barcode Equipment Ideas, Barcode Industry, Laser Printer Labels, Uncategorized | Tagged , , | Comments (0)

How To Clean A Print Head

May 28, 2009 – 11:30 am

Thermal print heads on barcode and receipt printers should be viewed as just another consumable. For a thermal transfer setup, the consumables include the labels, the barcode ribbon and the print head. On a direct thermal setup, you have just the labels and the print head. Print heads range from $300 to $1000’s of dollars, [...]

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