Introducing the new mobile printers that propel you into the next generation of smart, enhanced technology solutions for industrial-grade label printing applications, the TSC Alpha-30L and Alpha-40L.

User-friendly, heavy-duty, and drop-resistant, the Alpha printers are intelligent label printers for enterprise professionals. Ideal for applications including manufacturing, retail, transportation & logistics, and healthcare, the innovative Alpha-30L and Alpha-40L have been carefully crafted from the ground up to provide you with durability you can depend on.

With high productivity features for direct store delivery (DSD) and industrial field service, the Alpha-30L and Alpha-40L not only provide seamless mobility communication with users’ devices, they also securely print labels wherever they are needed.

Not only are the Alpha-30L and Alpha-40L versatile media handling solutions, but they also include a built-in peeler and a factory option for a linerless kit for a smarter, greener solution.

Included with a full line of accessories to assist in performing labeling tasks on the go, including hands-free mobility, the TSC Alpha-30L and Alpha-40L allow users to easily integrate the printer onto a forklift with intuitive RAM mount components and more.

For warehouse vehicles in need of a continuous power source, opt for the battery eliminator kit to increase productivity and prevent downtime for an entire work shift.

Key Features of the TSC Alpha 30 and Alpha 40 Series Printers

• Seamless Mobility Communication: Apple certified MFi Bluetooth 5.0 connection with NFC tap-to-pair setup and dual band Wi-Fi
• Integrated Software Pack: Supports label printing applications for different platforms and is available for both iOS and Android users
• IP54 rating for dust and water resistance and a rugged design that can withstand drops from 1.8 m and tumbles from 1.0 m
• Sophisticated TSC Sense Care: Auto scans and detects printhead bad dots during printing while monitoring smart battery to ensure maximum efficiency
• SOTI Connect and TSC Console support multiple management tasks, reduce maintenance costs and avoid downtime of business-critical devices

To learn more about the next generation smart solution mobile printers, contact us today.

Happy Valentine’s Day! What a great opportunity to appreciate refurbished mobile devices.

Barcode scanners and mobile computers that have been refurbished are generally the most cost-effective option for your company’s hardware requirements.

Also known as Certified Pre-Owned (CPO) devices, there are many misconceptions and concerns about what refurbished means, and how it differs from new or used equipment.

Refurbished mobile equipment can provide a wide range of benefits for your business – let’s dig in to why.

As-Is and Used Mobile Equipment are Not the Same as Certified Pre-Owned

Electronics that have been used and put on the market for sale in their existing state are known as “used” or “as-is” devices.

Devices that have been utilized for 10 months or ten years will remain in the same condition as they were on the last day they were used, regardless of how long they’ve been discontinued by the manufacturer.

Mobile equipment that has been previously owned but has been professionally refurbished or certified pre-owned must be in “good-as-new” condition before it can be put on the market.

Consider the car sector while contemplating whether to purchase refurbished or used mobile equipment. There’s a big difference between a used car and a certified pre-owned car, just as there is with mobile gadgets. CPO cars are guaranteed to be in excellent condition after a thorough inspection by the manufacturer or dealer. Used cars – not always the case.

These steps ensure that you’re getting a high-quality product that’s ready to use out of the box.

Examples of Used Mobile Equipment and Scanners

The MC9000 series was launched in 2003 as the supply chain industry’s ruggedized computer solution. For the past 15 years and millions of devices later, these devices have been frequently utilized for their reliability in an ever-expanding range of sectors.

As they are widely used and no longer produced or maintained by the OEM, mobile devices like the MC9091, MC9097, and MC9190-G are frequently sought on the reseller market.

Companies typically opt to buy professionally reconditioned gadgets from trustworthy vendors and sign repair contracts to guarantee that they are protected rather than upgrade and maintain these devices themselves.

When to Consider Refurbished Mobile Devices

Your strategic IT initiatives may require the use of the most up-to-date technologies. Refurbished mobile equipment, on the other hand, makes greater commercial sense in many situations. Things to consider:

Cost Savings

It’s a no-brainer that used gear may save you up to half the price of new equipment. Businesses wishing to grow their operations while maintaining continuity might consider purchasing used mobile equipment.

In turn, pre-owned mobile computers offer the same level of performance for far less money and a lot less hassle than buying new.

Replace or Buy More of What You Already Have

OEMs often stop making gadgets after a specific number of years to roll out new models. That doesn’t mean brand new hardware makes sense for your business. 

If your workforce is accustomed to a specific mobile computer, it’s common for them to want to keep the legacy device working as long as possible.

No Need for Additional Proof of Concept

Not only do you get the precise setup and image you’re used to with refurbished devices; it’s sometimes the only way to get it at all.

Companies who source Certified Pre-Owned equipment from Barcodes, Inc. have the peace of mind that their technology will work just as well as when they purchased new.

Shorter Lead Times and Better Device Availability

With new mobile devices, we’re seeing lead times of 8 to 12 weeks (and much longer in some cases). This is not helpful to organizations who need to get more products out the door today.

CPO hardware, such as mobile computers, printers, scanners, and vehicle mount computers are sometimes much faster to source.

With that said, the refurb device market is extremely dynamic, with availability fluctuating all the time. If you’re on a tight timeline, Barcodes can find you what you need for much faster and cheaper.

Reasons to Source CPO Hardware from Barcodes, Inc.

We’ve all heard horror stories of used devices being dead on arrival. The sale is already complete, and the victim is stuck with a box of expensive paper weights to sit in the warehouse.

As your unique needs are assessed, we’ll propose the most appropriate refurbished technology to suit those needs. CPO from Barcodes, Inc. includes the following:

• 90-day warranty on all refurbished mobile devices
• Thorough repair and inspection process
• Function testing on crucial components before sending each piece of equipment through a seven-step equipment repair procedure
• Inspected by highly skilled professionals who repair or replace any broken parts and take preventive measures to address any prevalent concerns
• Once fully restored and cleaned, the equipment will look and perform good as new
• Devices are setup, staged, kitted, and loaded with the appropriate software when these inspections and repairs are completed

For faster turnaround, quality hardware, and fair pricing, talk to the mobile equipment experts at Barcodes for all your refurbished equipment needs.

Traceability and visibility are crucial measures for your manufacturing operation and production line. Proper traceability and visibility increase efficiency in the production line by catching defects before they leave the plant, thus reducing recall costs and effects. Without complete visibility, traceability systems will fail to report inaccuracies.

In fact, 69% of companies do not have total visibility over their supply chains, which leads many scrambling to prove everything is up to code during audits and inspections. When defects are identified in a product, organizations need to sort through mounds of data to track and trace raw materials. Otherwise, they may be facing a mass recall. These errors can cost your business millions of dollars, but the good news is that they are avoidable.

Effective tracking and locationing technologies empower manufacturing facilities to deliver fast, accurate, and quality service that secures efficiency for the whole supply chain. See how in our video:

Ensure Proper Tracing and Accurate Visibility with Barcodes, Inc.

Proper tracing and accurate visibility are key components to the well-being of manufacturing plants. Barcodes, Inc. ensures that your manufacturing plant is up to date with integrated solutions. Here are some ways proper tracing and visibility can impact your business.

1. Streamline cause analysis – Having access to the data on your products enables manufacturers to dig deep and find the root cause of problems. Identify and solve problems faster to minimize impact.
2. Consistent improvement – Once you are able to see how parts and products move through lines, it’s easier to see where improvement is needed. Knowing where and when bottlenecks and delays occur makes real-time optimization possible.
3. Enhance your value stream – Since traceability and visibility monitors how your products move through your manufacturing process, it also helps with value stream mapping. Equipped with detailed product genealogy records, manufacturers gain supply chain visibility, which provides your operation the ability to see the bigger picture.
4. Quality and engagement – Part traceability along the entire production line can also help find key points where quality check-ups should be added. It also increases accountability and engagement on the shop floor.
5. Simple real-time tracking – Easy-to-use technologies such as Zebra’s locationing hardware simplify on-the-fly tracking of your high demand inventory, by digitally connecting data to your centralized management system. This means workers spend less time looking through files and reports for faster and more accurate audits.

Download our brochure to see more ways effective tracking enhances the production floor.

Contact us today to learn more about RFID technology designed to maximize traceability and visibility in your manufacturing plant.

We are pleased to announce that OCR Canada, a subsidiary of Barcodes Group, has been named the WaspLink Top Reseller of the Quarter for Q4-2020 for their achievements and commitment to providing solutions for Wasp Barcode Technologies.

The WaspLink Top Reseller of the Quarter is a quarterly award presented to a WaspLink Partner Program reseller who demonstrates an outstanding commitment to customer success and satisfaction. OCR Canada has a proven track record of selling Wasp asset and inventory tracking, printing, and barcoding data collection solutions to their long list of customers. 

Wasp is a leading provider of cloud-based asset tracking and inventory management software that enables partners like Barcodes, Inc. and OCR Canada to assist customers with their operational management and workflow solutions.

Barcodes, Inc. is ready to assist you on your next asset tracking or inventory management solution. Contact us today for a free consultation.

Barcodes, Inc. was recently included in My Tech Mag’s list of Top 20 Retail Tech Solution Providers of 2020, which recognized companies who offer creative solutions to retailers, helping them perform better, faster, and more efficiently. The Top 20 list was included in My Tech Mag’s April issue and featured an in-depth profile highlighting the strengths of each company.

The profile covering Barcodes, Inc. showed the company’s longevity and evolution within the AIDC industry, from their founding in 1994 to now providing over 70 product categories on the industry’s leading ecommerce website. President and CEO of Barcodes Group, Dan Nettesheim, said “Barcodes, Inc. has served tens of thousands of retail customers over the past 25+ years. Our solutions and services have evolved and will continue to evolve as our retail customers’ requirements change.”

Barcodes, Inc. provides barcodes scanners, receipt printers, payment terminals, touchscreens, and RFID equipment to retailers and is “equipped to deliver Android migration, AWS, warehouse management, point of sale, and other software and integration solutions,” My Tech Mag stated. Additionally, Barcodes, Inc. provides support services for pre-sale, deployment, and post-sale. A recent customer project included in the Top 20 article explained how Barcodes, Inc. worked with a leading adjustable air-supported sleep systems manufacturer to provide payment terminals, staging, kitting, and installation services for their 550 retail stores. BarcodesEdge, the professional services division of Barcodes, Inc. managed the implementation and now provides ongoing services for this client. My Tech Mag highlighted how the Design, Deploy, Support approach used by BarcodesEdge allows Barcodes, Inc. to provide more complete service to customers and will be a focus for the company as they continue to grow.

To read more check out the article on My Tech Mag

To Our Barcodes, Inc. Customers and Communities:

Multiple state governments have enacted ‘stay at home’ orders to curb the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus. This means all residents are mandated to ‘remain at home’ and only essential businesses may remain open to provide critical services. Under these orders, residents of the states must remain in their homes except as needed to maintain continuity of operations in 16 specific critical infrastructure sectors. Two of those critical infrastructure sectors, as defined by the Department of Homeland Security, are the information technology and transportation & logistics sectors.

Barcodes, Inc. plays a vital role in the information technology and logistics sectors and in serving the supply chain in this unprecedented time of need. Therefore, our warehouses and support centers across the country will remain open and operational and our field services technicians will remain available to continue to serve our customers in fulfilling the critical technology needs of the nation’s federal, state and local governments, healthcare facilities, and education, industrial and financial services sectors.

We currently have large stocks of finished goods are closely coordinating with our suppliers and logistics partners to ensure prompt service. This will enable us to continue to serve our valued customers as we all work together to support the supply chain and critical industries in the U.S. and Canada.

We continue to implement strict precautionary measures in all our logistics and integration centers, in accordance with government and public health requirements, to reduce risk for colleagues who are performing their duties.

If you have questions, please contact your Barcodes, Inc. sales representative or contact Barcodes, Inc. at 1-800-351-9962.

We value your business and will continue to do everything we can to provide the best possible service to all our customers during these exceptionally challenging times.

Best Regards,
Daniel Nettesheim
President & CEO

To Our Barcodes, Inc. Customers and Communities:

As the COVID-19 epidemic continues to evolve, we want to let you know that Barcodes, Inc. and all of its subsidiaries has a comprehensive plan in place to continue to protect our employees and support the ongoing operations of our customers.  We are closely monitoring guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the World Health Organization, and local health officials around the world, and we will rely on their cumulative recommendations and expertise to inform our decisions. 

I want to share some of the actions Barcodes, Inc. is taking to help protect and support both you and also our employees. As a precaution, we are:

• Continuously monitoring our supply chain to understand any disruptions which could cause a delay in the delivery and support of your mission critical operations. We will continue to update our messaging to ensure our customers have accurate information to make appropriate decisions.

• Adopting work from home practices as needed as part of normal business operations and leveraging a complete portfolio of cloud-based systems, which will allow our dedicated account managers and staff to support their customers’ operations and critical business functions without undue risk.

• Modifying our paid time off policies to ensure that our employees-including hourly employees-who miss work due to illness or to care for sick family members do not suffer loss of income or other benefits.

• Implementing several measures to ensure the health and safety of our facilities, including suspending international travel and limiting non-essential domestic travel, reducing large customer events and gatherings, limiting visitors to the office, and maximizing health and hygiene activities across all office locations by maintaining sanitation supplies and encouraging an “if you are sick, stay home” mindset.

We deeply appreciate your partnership with Barcodes, Inc. We understand that this can be a very difficult time within your teams and communities. We offer our deepest sympathies to those who have already been affected. Rest assured that as circumstances continue to develop, one thing will remain the same: We will make our decisions with the health and well-being of our customers, employees, partners, and communities as our highest priority. 

Best Regards,
Daniel Nettesheim
President & CEO

Recapping our volunteering event at the Greater Chicago Food Depository. On Wednesday, March 20, 2019, a group of 25 Barcodes Team volunteered at the Greater Chicago Food Depository. We helped play an essential role in distributing food to a network of pantries and programs in Cook County. Our group was tasked with sorting and packaging bread. At the end of our session, we packed 657 cases of bread, which equated to 9,504 pounds. Our volunteer session helped distribute the equivalent of 14,418 meals! We want to thank everyone who volunteered! Check out the pictures of our team hard at work helping our hunger in our community.

Simplify business processes while improving accuracy and efficiency with the freedom of mobility. A pocket barcode scanner is ideal for flexible inventory control, asset management, and point of sale applications. Drop the cords and find out the benefits of a pocket barcode scanner. Benefits of a Pocket Barcode Scanner:

1. Compact in size and easy to carry around
2. Mobility without the tangle of cords
3. Avoid costly mobile computer costs
4. Reliable data collection in wireless or in offline batch mode
5. Fits comfortably in the palm of workers hand for all day use

Airtrack’s line of pocket barcode scanner can help capture the data you need to provide visibility in your inventory, assets, and transactions. It enables users to make barcode data collection easy and efficient. These flexible portable scanners have the option to scan 1D or 2D barcodes independently store in memory in batch mode or connect wirelessly to your smartphone and tablet for immediate data access. The Airtrack pocket barcode scanners delivers fast and accurate scanning performance and incorporates a rugged design against moisture and dust with an IP 42 enviornmental sealing withstanding 5-foot drops to concrete. Airtrack SP1-C Pocket 1D linear imager Features:

• 1D barcode scanning capability
• 1 inch OLED screen 128×64
• 2MB of memory, stores about 20,000 barcode scans
• Lightweight at 1oz
• Bluetooth range of 33ft (capable of pairing with Windows and iOS devices)
• Scan up to 5,000 scans per charge

Airtrack’s SP1 Pocket 1D Laser Scanner Features:

• 1D laser scan engine
• Easy Pairing
• 2MB of memory, stores about 20,000 scans
• Lightweight at 2 oz
• Bluetooth range of 30ft (capable of pairing with Windows and iOS devices)
• Battery to last up to a full shift of 8 hours

Airtrack’s SP2 Pocket 2D Imager Scanner Features:

• 1D and 2D scanning capabilities
• 1 inch OLED screen 128×64
• Storage for 10,000 scans
• Easy Pairing
• Lightweight at 2oz
• Bluetooth range at 30 ft (capable of pairing with Windows and iOS devices)
• Battery to last up to a full shift of 8 hours

Discover how you can increase speed and accuracy in data collection. Contact us if you have any questions or if you would like to learn how Airtrack’s pocket barcode scanners can help improve productivity and efficiency in your daily tasks.

Summing up our 2nd Annual Sales Kickoff, from March 4-6th, 2019 was a big success! This year our theme was Living on the Edge,  this event provided an interactive and engaging opportunity for all our partners and attendees. Our manufacturer partners came into Barcodes Headquarters and hosted unique workshops to share their latest mobility solutions for distribution, warehouse, supply chains, retail, and channel management. As well as, putting on a grand showcase of all their products for our attendees to test it in action. Barcodes would like to thank to our manufacturers and sponsors at Honeywell, Zebra, Epson, Citizen, Janam, Gigatrak, Elo, SOTI, Impinj, Sato, Datalogic, and Panasonic for sponsoring our event! Thanks to all our manufacturer partners who helped us create this engaging environment and networking opportunity to learn all about the latest products and mobility solutions.