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 […]
Yearly Archives: 2009
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: […]
Food & Beverage Labels
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 […]
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 barcode ribbonribbon 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 near […]
Consecutive Numbered & Barcode Labels
Consecutive Numbered & Barcode Labels Initially developed to help speed up grocery store checkout speed, consecutively numbered, labelsand 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 the […]
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 scanners 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, and […]
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 Label and will […]