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1,000 Barcode Labels to Hong Kong or China for £28.00… Delivered

Yes, it’s hardly seems possible Tanto Labels can provide 1,000 Barcode labels delivered  to any destination in Mainland China and Hong Kong for just GBP £28.00. What’s more, the prices get even cheaper for higher volumes. Need Barcode Labels in China? How are we able to do this, it’s simple, customers place orders on...

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Plant and Animal Species Identified FAST with Barcodes

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...

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New Barcode helps the visually impaired

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We tend to take the technology that makes our lives comfortable for granted in the modern world and sometimes think too rarely about how those who are not so able as ourselves are able to access the luxuries we live with daily.  At Tantolabels we are glad to report a brand new innovation that...

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Raflatac’s New Label Slitting and Distribution Operation

Giant Label stock  manufacturer  UPM Raflatac is to open a new self-adhesive slitting and distribution operation in Mexico city to service Mexican and Central American markets.  The move will help improve lead-times to self-adhesive label manufacturers, which is viewed as being a strategically important region to the UPM subsidiary.  Raflatac are a major supplier...

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POS and Barcode Printer Manufacturer Buys IBM POS Business

  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...

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£75,000 Barcode….

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£75,000 Barcode….

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!...

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As more and more business process have been automated with the use of barcodes and barcode labels, getting it right is really important.  Problems can occur with barcode type, print quality of barcodes or the encoded data. A story reported this week in the Express and Star highlights how issues can quickly arise if not enough attention is...

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Toshiba Extends Life of B-SX4 barcode label printer

Today Toshiba TEC announced it has extended the production life of the ever-popular B-SX4 Barcode Label Printer.  Production was originally planned to cease in March 2012, which is now extended to March 2013. The B-SX4 printer has been a hugely successful industrial label printer, as was its predecessor the B-472 barcode label printer. So there is a considerable...

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