Late payment can affect cash flow and ultimately put a business at risk.

Every businessmen has had those times when anxiety is raised over late payments and they have ended up juggling money within business accounts   just to deal with a client  who has failed to pay at the agreed time.  Many shake their heads and say – all part of being in business. Par for the course. Well, actually I disagree. The problem is out there but how much it affects your business is dependant upon how much you prepare to ensure minimal damage is done.

Tanto Labels campaigning for better standards

Payontime is a powerful website that I came across only recently and signed Tantolabels  up to without a second thought. As well as offering a mine of information on how you can combat the problem of late payment the site offers   a forum where you can put up questions for advice on process and legislation. Here you can really get down and dirty and talk with others who have been in the same position as you and swop tips and ideas.

The site also has a useful guide on the commercial debts interest act 1998 and encourages businesses to highlight at the beginning of a  business relationship  that payment needs to be paid within a set period of time. From there organisations can also stipulate interest rates for payments outside of a given period.

Now if you are anything like me, percentages were never my strong point. The idea of working out percentages on an ongoing and changing amount is a bit awe inspiring. But this site also offers Interest calculators so you do not have to use your fingers!

When you sign up to the site you are allowed to create a profile which even links to Google places and to show visitors to your site that you support payment on time you can put an icon on your website. Payment on time in any transaction should be a given. Start making changes now.

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Streamlining manufacturing and retail

Barcodes are a nifty little idea that streamline manufacturing and retail processes and can be found in all kinds of commercial and community businesses. QR codes have become part of everyday lives through mobile phones and the like -we reported in our blog recently that scientists in Germany are using barcodes to identify animal and plant life.

Now Camelot has introduced barcodes to make processes function even better and also make the experience of buying a national lottery ticket much more straight forward, faster and smoother.

All 5 lotterys for barcodes

National Lottery agents all use EPOS systems to manipulate the appropriate data. From April of this year they will all receive a list of five barcodes which will cover Euro millions and all the major UK lottery games.

A Camelot spokesperson said  “Retailers will simply need to scan the new barcode using their epos till to process National Lottery ticket transactions in the same way they would with other products in their store. These barcodes are variable which means the price contained within the barcode will vary depending on the number of lottery lines purchased by their customers.”

True, the new barcode processes will only cover transactions up to £99.99 (above this the old process is used), but we think it is only a matter of time before they are right across the board. they may not make you a millionaire this weekend but they will certainly cut that queue down…

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Recent barcode-related fact from Random Daily Facts website.

A 10 pack of Wrigley's Gum was the first product to be scanned with a UPC Barcode. It happened in Ohio in 1974, and the original pack is on display in the Smithsonian Institute.

It's hard to imagine that before the days of barcoding almost all products in supermarkets were labelled with a small price label applied with a hand labelling gun.

The Dark ages of the supermarket

Younger readers may not believe that the tins of beans would be manually labelled, one-by-one by shop staff before being put on the shelves. Even less believable perhaps is that shop staff would enter the prices marked on the goods on a cash register keypad manually.

Check-out staff before the introduction of the barcode had to be very handy on the keypads, then when barcoding arrived had to be good at rapid scanning. Now self-checkout has arrived the customer does the work.

Rise of the barcode

It's interesting that barcode technology hasn't really changed that much over the past 30 years, new symbologies and standards have emerged and barcodes have become ubiquitous.

A Modern Meto Hand-Held Price Gun

Barcode scanning has become faster and more accurate the same is true for barcode printing.  2-dimenional barcodes have become very popular, especially in marketing, but the 1-d barcodes you see on products in supermarkets look almost exactly the same now as they did in 1974.

10 Years ago some industry experts were saying the Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) would be replacing item-level barcodes by now.  Clearly this hasn't happened, There a few niche products being identified at item level using RFID, and there are some retailers using RFID at carton-level in the supply chain, but RFID is not deployed in-place of retail barcodes.

Tanto Labels is a manufacturer of labels for use with barcode label printers, we also supply pre-printed barcode labels and label printing systems. Contact Us for straight-forward advice on barcode labels and label printing.

Need Barcode Labels in China?

How are we able to do this, it's simple, customers place orders on our website or by email, FTP etc, we send the data to our partner barcode print shops in Hong Kong and China. The print shop over-prints barcode labels using stocks of blank labels and ships to factories across China using national courier. Labels are verified to meet strict quality standards before despatch and are typically delivered  2-3 days after the order has been placed.  Our turnaround for UK barcode orders is 1-2 days so the China operation is almost as fast as our UK service.

Unique Tanto Service

The service offered by Tanto Labels is a key USP and not widely offered by other barcode label manufacturers. The world-wide barcode label printing service has been in operation for over two years, with over two thousand orders completed so far.  From our China and Hong Kong print-shops we can also supply labels to other locations in Asia including Thailand, Indonesia and Vietnam, at increased shipping cost.

Benefits to customers are very attractive, having essential barcode and other variable data  labels applied to packaging at source, helps to reduce or eliminate post import processing, and ensures compliance with ever-stricter  QA requirements. Overall cost of processing can be reduced and lead-times can be significantly reduced.

We can produce almost all types of barcode and price labels, tickets and tags and including custom colours, shapes and sizes.

We plan  to expand our print-shop network  to other locations including India, Turkey and Eastern Europe.  There is strong demand from major European and US retailers to have high quality labels, tickets and tags supplied to factories at source.

Tanto Labels is developing a  flexible and far-reaching print-shop network  to meet this growing demand. To find out more call, email or contact us here.

As a barcode labels manufacturer Tanto Labels is always  interested in the use and application of barcode labels across business and society.  This story from the scientific community is not really about barcodes as we know them, but more about the boffins helping explain  a complex idea using a  familiar  every-day product.

Biologists want to use a similar process to barcodes to aid rapid identification of plant and animal life.  An initiative dubbed  German Barcode of Life (GBOL)  is bringing together  zoologists and botanists in Germany.

In the DNA of living beings, scientists  have identified sections as DNA barcodes that, while being almost identical within a certain species, differ among the various species,” explained Prof. Dr. Dietmar Quandt from the Nees Institute for Biodiversity of Plants at the University of Bonn. “Based on these markers, we can then identify species unambiguously and relatively fast.” The result of this analysis resembles barcodes at the supermarket; only that it does not come in black and white, but in four colours, with each one corresponding to one of the four letters of the genetic code.

Barcodes and the genetic make-up

In classical biological taxonomy, animals and plants are identified by their external characteristics. “It is in species of a genus that resemble each other very closely, such as sedges, that definite identification can be a very long process,” reported Prof. Quandt, Speaker for the botanical project within the GBOL Initiative. “In addition, we have to rely on competent experts here, who unfortunately are a dying breed nationally.” Fully automated sequencing of DNA, however, allows identifying plants much faster. “Besides, we do not need flowering and complete plants,” added Stefanie Winter, one of Prof. Quandt’s doctoral candidates. “A tiny fragment, e.g., from a leaf, is sufficient for identifying the species based on its genetic markers.”

Read the full story here.

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Tanto Labels  has never had any association with the now defunct AC Labels Ltd. We are however an experienced and professional manufacturer of barcode labels.

Visit our main website to take a closer look at the products and services we offer  www.Tantolabels.com . As well as supplying pre-printed barcode labels we are also we supply barcode label printers, and associated software and consumables.

AC Labels Limited

Date:

26 March 2012

Issue Number:

60098

Page number:

6025

Insolvency History information from companies house

AC Labels Limited

Number of Cases: 2
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Name & Registered Office:
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Company No. 01909699

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Practitioner name: WHITE, CHRISTOPHER MICHAEL Ceased to Act: 02/03/2011 Practitioner address: THE P & A PARTNERSHIP
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Name & Registered Office:
A.C. LABELS LIMITED
Company No. 01909699

Case Number: 2 Case Type: Voluntary Creditors Liquidation     Practitioner name: WOOD, ANDREW PHILIP Practitioner address: 93QUEEN STREET
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Practitioner name: WHITE, CHRISTOPHER MICHAEL Practitioner address: THE P & A PARTNERSHIP
93 QUEEN STREET
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 Adapting to disabilities

I am always amazed how well the human being can adapt to loosing one of the 5 senses or physical loss. If the will and motivation is there there is no limit to what people can achieve. You only have to spend 5 minutes watching sportsmen and women from the paralympics to be filled with joyful optimism. But there will always be restrictions. and that is where the clever inventions of the human mind come in.

Barcode scanner for the fingertips

Arman Martirosyan, a French student, has invented a technique using barcodes to enable the visually impaired shop independently themselves. It is true  many visually impaired people can shop surprisingly easily in a store they have come to know well. They maybe able to learn where the aisles are, and where the products are likely to be on each aisle. The problem arises when there are daily changes in prices, the store manager decides to move products to different shelves for marketing reasons and most importantly, the difficulty of selecting between many different types of the same product.

Arman has come up with a fingertip barcode scanner. His invention is split into three parts.  A barcode scanner that fits on the fingertip  like a thimble. An earbud earpiece that communicates with the barcode scanner via Bluetooth and thirdly a plug that holds the barcode scanner and earpiece together for storage. The user scans with the end of the finger and the information is sent to the audio device. Reviewers of the design have commented on how unobtrusive it is.

For the visually impaired this does seem like a massive step forward that will help in a further move towards independence and normal living. To read more about the design and product visit Armans Website.

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UPM said the new facility, which is strategically located to strengthen the company’s service to customers in Mexico and Central America, is set to begin operations in the second quarter of 2012 and will stock a wide range of paper and film labelstocks including trimless offerings.

Enhancing Label stock access

The terminal will also allow UPM Raflatac to expand its service network further and offer enhanced delivery times to customers in Guadalajara and Mexico City.

UPM Raflatac Mexico general manager Jose Garcia said the company recognizes that its customers require rapid access to a diverse range of labelstock products to conduct their businesses.

Tanto Labels is a Raflatac customer and has access to the entire Raflatac range. We use Raflatac products in many of our self-adhesive labels including thermal transfer and direct thermal labels for barcode printing applications. Printed Labels can be specified with permanent or peelable adhesive, and many specialty adhesives including hot-melt, rubber-based and water soluble, and can be supplied on rolls of all popular core sizes, on  sheets and fanfold packs.

Raflatec and food labels

UPM Raflatec especially specialise if food labels for for retail and manufacturing services. In a world obsessed with knowing the exact ingredients of their food for health and safety reasons and for diet reasons, food labels and food and nutrition labelling remains an important issue for consumers: it is a broad term that encompasses the information required on food packages by law and other regulations. For example, it can contain a statement of the net contents, the name and address of the manufacturer, the ingredients and nutritional information, and claims regarding nutrition and health. All of this accompanies the brand and product identity “statement”

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Point of Sale and Barcode Printer Manufacturer Toshiba TEC has acquired IBMs Point of Sale business in a deal worth £534m (US$850m).  The deal strengthens Toshiba TEC presence in Europe and North America and makes it the world largest retail point of sale manufacturer with approximately one quarter of the global market.

Major UK retailers such as Morrison’s  have widely deployed  Toshiba TEC POS (Point of Sale) systems while Tesco and Sainsbury’s have very large populations of Toshiba TEC mobile barcode labels printers.

IBM is the largest  computer  services provider in the world  has been  focusing it’s activity  on software cloud computing  in established and emerging markets. It’s targeted  $20 billion new revenue by 2015.

Tanto Labels is a Toshiba TEC Value Added Reseller providing barcode printing solutions including Toshiba TEC’s range of barcode label printers. As a label manufacturer Tanto Labels is ideally placed to provide customers with complete barcode label printing solutions.

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]]> http://www.tantolabels.com/blog/pos-and-barcode-printer-manufacturer-buys-ibm-pos-business/feed/ 0 http://www.tantolabels.com/blog/barcode-print-banksy/ http://www.tantolabels.com/blog/barcode-print-banksy/#comments Mon, 02 Apr 2012 23:29:53 +0000 tantolabels http://www.tantolabels.com/blog/?p=89 Yes, in these frightening times where the recession is gripping business firmly round the neck and we are almost becoming numb to prices spiralling out of control, it might seem a £75,000 barcode was…well just a sign of the times. Certainly puts manufacturing costs up! But actually, this is news that barcodes have just got trendy! Just like Andy Warhols Campbell soup tins in the 1960′s, Graffiti artist Banksy has brought the barcode well and truly into the 21st century. At a price mind.

Now, I’m not a great fan of modern art. I tend to visit modern  art exhibitions like others would watch a good comedy stand up. I tend to be at the back stiffling giggles at how ridiculous it all is. This is usually followed by a deep sigh and a shake of the head. How can someone glory in the joys of an unmade bed, a pickled sheep or a crumpled piece of paper? I would pay Tracey Emin to make her bed rather than buy her…art.

But having said that I really like Banksy’s  portrail of a barcode though I’m still trying to work out what it means (answers on a postcard please). It depicts a huge barcode sitting on what appears to be a trailer and two of the bars of the barcode are bent outwards like the bars of a cage. In front of the barcode walks a sultry and beautiful leopard.  It seems Banksy actually created this as far back as 2004 and this was the first time it has been in front of the auctioneers hammer. Only 5 were made and each has his signature on. The stencil painting Leopard and Barcode, which has never been under the hammer before, sold for £75,650.

Anyway the fact is if it is art you want then it is money you need. If it is affordable barcodes you need they are not spiralling out of control quite yet. This is because I don’t sign the back of each barcode. Visit our website to view our complete catalogue and more.