Seagull Scientific Named “Best Channel Vendor” for Sixth Year in a Row
The readers of Business Solutions magazine have honored Seagull Scientific for the sixth straight year as a “Best Channel Vendor” in the category of Labeling Software. With more than 2,500 readers voting, Seagull’s resellers cited Product Features and Product Reliability as our top two areas of strength.
“We are delighted that our channel partners have recognized Seagull in the Business Solutions survey for the sixth year in a row,” said Harold Boe, President of Seagull Scientific. “Our partners need to trust the technology they sell and the company that stands behind it. We are proud that so many companies rely on BarTender label software and Seagull’s top-quality service and support, and we have great plans for making 2014 the best year yet for our valued resellers.”
Making Barcode Design Fun
Most of the time when we use the term ‘barcode design’ there really isn’t much design work involved outside of making sure the right data gets encoded in the right symbology. Creativity and barcode design software don’t often make it into the same sentence but it’s one area where you can really improve and have some fun with your product packaging.
Artist Steve Simpson has been making the most of UPC barcodes with some very interesting and creative takes on how a product code can be better integrated into packaging design. He even provides some tips and rules to follow to make sure the code is still readable.
Seagull Updates Bartender Software to Version 10.1
Seagull Scientific has announced the immediate availability of BarTender 10.1, the latest version of its award-winning software for designing, printing and automating the production of barcodes, labels, cards, RFID tags and more.
Version 10.1 introduces features and improvements that enable more complex designs and solve tough real-world problems, including the world’s most comprehensive barcode support, new design “layers,” enhanced serialization, improved usability and new global data fields, custom page templates and conditional printing.
Recently named the Best Professional Barcode Software by TopTenREVIEWS, BarTender is available in four, progressively more powerful editions: Basic, Professional, Automation and Enterprise Automation. The variety of editions makes BarTender well suited to a wide range of printing and marking solutions, from small, stand-alone printing environments at SMBs to large, automated printing infrastructures at the largest enterprises.
Datamax Releases An Update To Their NETira Label Designer Software
Datamax-O’Neil has just released a new version of NETira Label Designer. This software tool is one of several offered in the recently released NETira Software Suite. The new release of NETira Label Designer now supports 2-D bar codes and enhanced support for the I-Class Mark II and E-Class Pro/Pro Plus printers. NETira Label Designer offers users the ability to design custom labels from an intuitive easy-to-use label creation program that is included with every Datamax-O’Neil stationary printer. Users can print industry barcode labels that can include text, graphics, images and logos.
TEKLYNX Implements First Subscription Licensing Program in Barcode Software, Label Design Industry
New business model saves money, increases flexibility for users and resellers
TEKLYNX, a worldwide leader in the barcode and labeling software industry, has launched a new subscription licensing program applicable with all its products. This change highlights TEKLYNX as the only barcode label design company to offer this option to clients and resellers.
The new subscription licensing option benefits a variety of end users, whose label design needs often range from stand-alone applications to complex programs. Lower upfront costs, maintenance agreements included, and optional upgrades are all staples of this new program geared to directly impact the end user’s bottom line. There’s no need to purchase an additional Software Maintenance Agreement, and resellers are saved the hassle of dealing with the potentially complex process of SMA renewals. In turn, long term relationships between businesses and clients grow, and customers get the best possible buying experience.
Citizen Introduces the CL-S6621 – The World’s Smallest 6-inch Label Printer
Citizen has launched the CL-S6621, the smallest 6-inch label printer on the market, saving valuable desk space for customers as well as offering a range of powerful features. The CL-S6621 is a remarkable 60% smaller than the next largest 6-inch printer, and half the price, making it not only the smallest but also the best priced 6-inch printer on the market.
The CL-S6621 is a 6-inch version of the successful CL-S621, bridging the gap between 4 and 8-inch printers and enhancing the highly successful range of Citizen industrial desktops that combine robustness with high performance. The printer is packed with technology that boosts print quality and reliability, including the ARCP automatic tension system that enables clearer prints. The CL-S6621 also incorporates Citizen’s Hi-Lift Mechanism, which enables precision printing and, along with an ergonomic paper lifter, easier media loading.
Buying a Barcode Printer : 4 Questions Before You Buy
Compared to a laser or inkjet printer, thermal based barcode label printers are a much more economical option to create high quality labels and tags. These printers can create single labels instead of on whole sheets that are not really suitable for on-demand printing . In the long run, thermal barcode printers require less maintenance, have less expensive media, and print faster while maintaining excellent print quality.
Finding the right printer for your needs, however, can be challenge with all the available models and options.
The next 4 questions will help make the decision process easier and get you closer to best printer for your needs.
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Intermec PM43c Now Shipping
The Intermec PM43c industrial mid-range printer, a compact version of the PM43, is available for orders and is now shipping.
The PM Series are shipping with multi-command language firmware that includes Fingerprint and Direct Protocol, IPL and competitive emulations for ZPLII and DPL. While customers can take advantage of the ease of use provided by multi-command language firmware, only Fingerprint and Direct Protocol offers the most features and best performance: fastest throughput, easiest configuration, wizards and tools, XML, and Smart Printing and INprint for printing without a host application. Fingerprint and Direct Protocol is recommended for all new applications and current custom applications where a change is possible.
The full-sized PM43 is a direct replacement for the PM4i, and the compact PM43c directly replaces the PF4i industrial printer
For more information or to order a new PM43c feel free to contact us at Barcodes Inc.
A Guide to Smart Printing
Understanding the Capabilities, Use Cases and Advantages of Smart Printers
Businesses are continually looking for ways to work smarter. Printing operations provide an excellent – and often overlooked – opportunity. One growing trend among companies with bar code printing operations is to leverage the capabilities of “smart” printers, which are printers that integrate the power of a personal computer. Smart printers enable businesses to change the way their printing operations are structured, to streamline and improve processes in ways that reduce operating costs while improving reliability.
Smart printing takes advantage of the memory and processing power available in advanced printers to run printing operations independently, without a PC or network connection to another host computer. Smart printers can run software applications and can function as PLCs to control other devices, including scales, scanners and label applicators. By using the computing power that’s in the printer, organizations can reduce their IT hardware, networking and support requirements, lower the total cost of printing operations, and create work processes that improve productivity and reduce opportunities for errors.
Smart Printers. Smart Investment.
People generally relate to industrial printers as they do to their desktop printers. It’s a “dumb” device that prints whatever a computer sends it. As long as it does that well and keeps working, people really don’t think too much about it.
Bar code printers have generally fallen into the same “dumb” and reliable category, but are also rugged and fast at producing labels.
However, there is a different type of industrial-strength printer that’s in a class by itself. It has the same characteristics as other bar code printers—rugged, fast, and reliable—but these printers are “smart.” Smart printers have built-in intelligence that enables them to perform a wide variety of operations that normal printers cannot.
First, smart printers do not require a computer to be able to produce labels. The immediate benefits are you save the cost of a computer dedicated to controlling the printer and you save space by reducing the number of devices needed to perform operations. Smart printers’ intelligence also allows them to actually run processes and devices. Smart printers can act as programmable logic controllers (PLC) to run other devices in production applications.
Smart printers are not new; they have been manufactured for over a decade. The latest generation delivers even more capability than before, adding advanced bar code printing capabilities, errorproofing, the ability to print directly from ERP systems via XML data, and RFID labeling and data management capabilities.
