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Using barcode lablels for a fast and easy shopping list

Technological innovation is on the precipice of finding a smart application that just allows you to do just anything in your daily routine. Even the most ridiculously simple daily tasks can be made… well even more simple. So it is with little surprise that we learn the newest little gadget to hit the stage...

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Barcodes should be black white and…green

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Barcodes should be black white and…green

Yes I’m talking conservation here.  For a long time the traditional site of the black and white stripped barcodes have been a comforting and familiar sight on shop shelves and packaging. As a community we are all trying to find new ways to save energy, recycle, and enhance sustainability. Strangely enough if we use...

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Spotlight on BarTender Barcode Label Printing Software

If you are looking for Barcode label printing software which is flexible, dynamic and cost effective for all industrial environments look no further than Bartender. We have been using BarTender barcode label printer software in our own in-house print shops for many years and it continues to get better and more effective as new...

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Why Thermal Printers remain first choice for printing barcode labels

If you are thinking of buying a printer you are not going to be stuck for choice. There is impact, laser, and ink jet as well as Thermal Transfer and Direct Thermal Transfer printer. Domestic users are more likely to be focusing their sights on the the first three above but for the industrial...

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The barcode BEAST cometh…

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The barcode BEAST cometh…

Barcodes are essential in the retail and manufacturing industries. A barcode not only provides a steam-lined and automated process for overseeing stock, in the modern world it will provide a fast and effective process at checkouts. So it was with interest I read this week how barcodes were now being used in the criminal...

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Spotlight on the Toshiba TEC B-SX8 barcode label printer

The Toshiba TEC B-SX8 barcode label printer offers not only the  flexibility to be used in nearly all work environments and with all modern applications, it also boasts cutting edge CPU technology and high print quality. Wireless LAN, USB, and RFID There are a number of functions that are available  as default with the...

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Barcodes help in understanding Cancer

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Barcodes help in understanding Cancer

We have reported many different ways in which barcodes are used outside of eCommerce, asset organisation and stock taking on this website. From barcodes on tombstones to enhance grieving, barcodes on bottles to help you find the girl of your dreams, and barcodes glued to ants to monitor social patterns in insects, barcode labels...

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Spotlight on the Toshiba TEC MD408i

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Spotlight on the Toshiba TEC MD408i

The Toshiba TEC  MD408i has been especially designed and developed for businesses who need to print labels, tickets, receipts and transaction documents on the move. This powerful little printer offers dynamic speeds and multi-form mobile printing for the logistics industry. Who uses the Toshiba TEC MD408i? This printer is useful for any industry where...

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QR barcode report shows Mobile barcode trend is thriving

Everyone is talking about them. They are constantly in the news and apparently, if we are to believe what the media is telling us, they will dictate retail processes and buying systems in the future. But are they as popular and effective as the advertisers are making out? According to a new report by...

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Barcodes drafted in to support patient identification

The UK will always be proud to hold the NHS to its hearts as one of its greatest innovations.  However as we travel further into the millennium,  population continues to increase, technology is changing all the time, money is scarce due to the recession, and we are constantly needing to provide for an ageing community because of advances...

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