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Spotlight on the Toshiba Tec DB-EA4D

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Spotlight on the Toshiba Tec DB-EA4D

Toshiba continue to be top of the best sellers list as far as label printers go and the Toshiba Tec DB EA4D is no exception. In fact, we can go further than review and highlight the assets of this neat little piece of machinery  – it has actually won an award as well. The IF...

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When Barcodes Break…

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When Barcodes Break…

At first look it wouldn’t appear that  barcodes could stop working effectively. After all they are just a mass of black and white lines and numbers. There they are sitting ready to go on your product. What could possibly go wrong? Well, unfortunately it is how they appear and communicate with the scanner which could cause...

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Demystifying barcode labels for your business

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Demystifying barcode labels for your business

Barcodes can appear mystifying enough when just sitting on a product on your local store. When you are starting your business and attempting to work out how they can benefit your organisation you need to know how they work in order to find the most cost effective and appropriate type on the market. The...

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Barcode Inventor dies aged 91

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Barcode Inventor dies aged 91

Only recently we reported on the Tanto Labels Blog how the humble Barcode had reached its 6o th birthday. Now only a few weeks later one of the cop-inventors who made the technology possible has passed away. Lucky enough to be able to celebrate the anniversary celebrations and how his invention has truly become...

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You never noticed barcodes – now they really are invisible!

For some time now on Tanto we have reported how  humble barcodes have grown from being a simple inventory tool to being used in almost any industry you can think of. Barcodes have more than one use in industry Far from being just an application to keep tabs on stock or enhance checkout processes in...

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