Barcoding News

Motorola has created a slideshow that provides and excellent overview of the Motorola MC9500-K rugged mobile computer, it’s features and benefits.

Click on the image below to view the PDF.

Zebra’s announced via Twitter that it will be unveiling the Zebra Xi4 high performance label printer at PACK EXPO in Las Vegas next week.

Little about the Xi4 series has been publicly announced, but it is expected to carry on the high-performance characteristics of Zebra’s rugged, reliable all-metal 110XiIIIPlus, 140XiIIIPlus, 170XiIIIPlus and 220XiIIIPlus printers.

Kudos to Zebra for not naming this update to the XiIIIPlus printer line the XiIV, XiIIII, XiIIIPlusPlus or XiIIIPlus+. 🙂

The Challenge

• Old fashioned manual process of price marks downs.
• How to apply retail price mark downs to only selected clothes items as opposed to whole collections which consisted of several hundred items in store.
• Use of fixed location printers for price mark downs resulted in many financial mistakes being made, not to mention wasted time and resources.
• Use of an external supplier for promotional labels caused delays and errors.

The Solution

• Zebra® QL 320 Plus mobile printers connected to a data terminal using 3rd party software to record stock levels, receipt and delivery of clothing items and price mark down labeling. Continue reading »

Challenge
The company needed to establish a labeling program, and many of DePuy’s distributors and hospitals were implementing automated receiving systems, which required inventory to be bar coded when it reached their receiving docks.

Solution
The system, consisting of 20 on-demand label printers from Zebra Technologies, allowed DePuy to minimize manual data entry, reduce shipping errors, and eliminate the need for costly preprinted forms.

Product
DePuy installed several Zebra® high-performance thermal transfer bar code printers.

On-demand labeling delivers great savings in forms costs by eliminating the need for preprinted forms. Many organizations apply bar coding to improve internal operations, while others adopt the technology to comply with customer or regulatory labeling requirements.

That’s how bar codes came to DePuy Orthepaedics, Inc., an international manufacturer known for its orthopedic products. Implementing bar coding turned out to be a blessing in disguise for DePuy–-they are expecting a $100,000 savings in forms costs alone when all facilities have been converted to the new technology. During the 1980s, DePuy embarked on a plan to widen its distribution channels. Management realized that for the expansion to meet corporate objectives, the company needed to establish a bar code labeling program.

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Unique precision meter-reading system
Brunata A/S uses its own hand-held terminals and the market’s leading portable printers to read two million heating, water and electricity meters a year. Fewer scanning errors, trimmed-down administration and improved customer service are some of the advantages of the new portable scan-print system used by Brunata A/S.

Most work can now be done at the customer’s site
Because the company’s meter readers now use water and heating meters that operate digitally, they are able to complete much of their work at the customer’s premises or home.

The project means that most of all readings are now done by tapping the figures into the handheld terminal. Individual electronic heating meters can be read directly via the terminal. The meter reader can see on the hand-held terminal all the important information for each individual appliance and, in the vast majority of cases, rectify any errors on-site instead of returning to the office and looking up the appliance in the system

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New Ultra-Flat Cherry Keyboard is Spill Resistant

Cherry’s new Stream XT ultra-flat keyboard with whisper keystroke technology provides nearly silent operation and high resistance to liquid spills.

With an overall height of just over 0.7 inches, the Stream offers a flat but ergonomic design that complements a contemporary workspace. The Stream has been recognized with the AGR seal of approval for ergonomic, back-friendly work.

The Stream is also built for durability, with standard keystroke life of greater than 10 million operations. Plug & Play means no software installation is needed, and the Stream comes with 6 HotKeys for volume control and Mediaplayer functions.

The Cherry Stream XT is a USB corded keyboard, but it comes equipped with a PS/2 adapter.

Honeywell Scanning and Mobility (official website) is a Honeywell Automation & Control Solutions business specializing in barcode scanners and mobile computers.

Through the acquisition of Metrologic and Handheld (previously known as Welch Allyn, and HHP), Honeywell has 40 years of barcoding experience.

Honeywell is a leader and 2D imaging, and has a full line of mobile computers for almost any application.

Entry Level	Light Industrial	Industrial
ScanPal 2 SP5500 OptimusS SP5600 OptimusR	Dolphin 6100 SP5700 OptimusPDA Dolphin 7600	Dolphin 7850 Dolphin 7900 Dolphin 9900

See our page on barcode scanner software to help you choose between the many types of available software.

 

Many of our customers think they need to get a special barcode scanner to use with their Macintosh computer. This may have been true many years ago when USB was not prevalent and Apple computers used ADB connector for their keyboards.

Today, virtually every USB barcode scanner on the market is automatically recognized by Mac OS X thanks to the Apple Generic Keyboard driver that is built into the Operating System. Therefore, all you have to do is plug the barcode scanner in to your USB port and scan your barcodes. They will be entered into any application as if you typed the corresponding keystrokes on a keyboard.

This video demonstrates Intermec rugged mobile printers getting crushed, frozen, baked, dropped, drenched and continue working when it’s all over.