There are more and more problems with production flexibility, inventory turnover, and cost control for businesses today.

The Honeywell PM45 industrial printer is made to give businesses the freedom and accuracy they need to print high quality barcode labels, RFID tags, and more at scale.

The track-and-trace feature of the PM45 printer is meant to improve print efficiency and supply chain transparency in many different industries, such as the food and beverage, pharmaceutical, manufacturing, warehouse, and distribution center management industries.

The reliable PM45 printer is built on the Honeywell print platform and can print at speeds of up to 14 ips. With a print registration range of up to +/-0.5 mm, the PM45 printer can print high-quality barcodes, text, and images, even on small labels for electronic parts and medical devices.

As an industrial printer with a lot of connections, the PM45 has improved WWAN connectivity so that deployment isn’t too limited by the site’s network topology. Because the PM45 printer is so flexible, the user can add RFID, parallel, industrial, and applicator interfaces to meet unforeseeable business needs in the future.

The PM45 printer supports variable network protocols and multiple print languages to make it easy to integrate into your system, whether it is in the cloud or on a local server. This will help you move toward intelligent manufacturing and supply chain management.

With Honeywell’s Smart Parse software built in, the PM45 lets you quickly change the position of objects and barcodes, the size of objects and barcodes, or the font type on labels without having to make changes to the backend system or know how to code.

With Honeywell’s Operational Intelligence software, users can manage and keep an eye on the diagnostics and output performance of the PM45 printer from afar. The PM45 works with a wide range of media, including ink-in and ink-out ribbons with a 1-inch core size. This makes it easier to go longer without having to restock media.

Since Honeywell’s firmware platform supports multiple print languages, the PM45 printer is a great replacement for Honeywell or mixed printers that are already in use. A durable, all-metal print mechanism, an easy-to-replace printhead, and a platen roller that doesn’t need any tools to be changed all help to reduce downtime and maintenance needs.

Watch the Honeywell PM45 Video

The Honeywell PM45 is a productivity powerhouse. Additional features include:

• Accurate & reliable high speed printing (direct and thermal transfer)
• Broad connectivity options
• Device management and track & trace functionality
• Compatible Software, including Nicelabel, BarTender, Operational Intelligence, Teklynx Labelview
• Compatible Drivers, such as CUPS Driver for Linux, InterDriver for Windows, and Certified Device Types for SAP

For a full list of detailed specifications, download the PM45 spec sheet.

Print Professional Barcode Labels for the Warehouse with Ease

The Brother QL-1100 series professional label printers offer unrivalled versatility not only in the office, but also in warehouse, postal, facilities management, and many more industries.

Create labels with black print up to three feet in length, from PC, Mac, iOS or Android devices.

All models allow easy connection to desktop computers using USB. The flagship Brother QL-1110NWB also adds Wireless, Ethernet and Bluetooth wireless connectivity.

Benefits of the Brother QL-1100 Barcode Label Printer

• Rapid, beautiful print output – 69 standard address labels can be printed in a minute at 300 dpi
• Flexible wireless connections include Ethernet, Wireless (802.11b/g/n), and Bluetooth
• Versatile, wide range of label printing capabilities (up to 4″ wide)
• Automatic crop feature – quickly print product labels and other barcodes from A4/Letter size label sheet templates (Windows only)
• USB Host interface may be used with a other peripherals and barcode scanners
• Using Brother’s network administration tools and open software development kits, networks are simple to connect and administer
• For Windows, iOS, and Android operating systems, SDKs are readily available

For a truly excellent barcode label printer that was made for the warehouse, look no further than the Brother QL-1100. Download QL-1000 detailed specs. If you’d like, contact us today for a quote and deployment plan customized to your unique warehouse needs.

The PXie Series of industrial printers from Honeywell are crafted to meet the needs of applications that must work all the time. These tough printers have advanced connectivity and network protocols, giving you peace of mind today and a reliable, scalable solution for the long term.

The durable, all-metal PXie printers work very well, printing up to 12 inches per second from the first label to the last. They also have features that cut down on downtime and maintenance costs.

Both the PX4ie and PX6ie have a resolution of 203 or 300 dpi, and the PX4ie also has a resolution of 406 dpi, which lets you print labels with great detail without slowing down. This is perfect for compliance labeling applications that need immediate results from constantly changing data inputs.

The smart design features of the PXie printers help increase productivity in tough environments. As Smart Printers, they can run stand-alone programs made with the Fingerprint and C# programming languages. This helps cut down on mistakes and speed up operational processes.

The device management and diagnostic features of the printers, which are available in web-based PrintSet Configuration Management and will soon be available in AirWatch®, SOTITM, and Operational Intelligence, reduce downtime and make deployment easier.

The magnetic QuickMountTM printhead makes it easy and quick to change printheads. Honeywell labels and other media are designed and tested with the PXie printers to make sure they work best when used with genuine Honeywell media.

Watch the PXie Series Printer in Action

Both the PX4ie and PX6ie barcode label printers are ready for anything. Additional benefits include:

• The small, modular architecture of the PXie printers simplifies their incorporation into automated labeling applications
• Smart Printers can eliminate the PC and directly operate other equipment (such as scanners, scales, and applicators), so increasing productivity and reducing infrastructure costs and complication
• With user-selectable, all-in-one printer command languages (DP/FP, IPL, ZSim, and DPL), the PXie printers allow rapid deployment and drop-in compatibility in mixed printer settings
• Every printer ships with Ethernet connectivity and IPv6 network protocol, ensuring business scalability over the long run. Multiple interface choices, including the most secure wireless communication, are available (WPA2)

For a full list of PXie Series Printer specifications, download the spec sheet.

Warehouse and distribution centers need to keep operations running efficiently. Their barcode label printing is one process that cannot be compromised. The Zebra ZT421 barcode label printer offers advanced technology that drives versatility, ease of use, and enhanced performance.

Use the ZT421 printer to address various industrial applications, such as manufacturing, transportation and logistics, and more. See printer status at a glance and manage settings quickly using the large 4.3″ color touch display. Built to be rugged and durable, the ZT421 can withstand any warehouse or distribution center environment. Use your printer throughout your facility with ease with field-installable connectivity, media handling, and RFID options. 

Easy to integrate, manage, and update, the ZT400 series from Zebra offers the versatility, reliability, and performance to meet your industrial printing needs — today and tomorrow.

Zebra Technologies is committed to support a variety of warehouse and distribution center needs. The ZT421 drives productivity in your operations by providing:

• Thermal transfer and direct thermal printing
• 203 and 300 dpi print resolution options
• Print speeds per second up to 12″
• Serial, USB, Ethernet and Bluetooth Interface
• Printing for labels up to 6″
• Rugged metal case with 4.3″ color touch display

Meet the printer that’s designed for your warehouse.

[Download Zebra ZT421 Infographic Sheet]

Versatile and easy to use, Zebra delivers high performance barcode label printers for warehouse and distribution center needs.

Contact us today to see how you can bring a new level of printing to your growing business.

Distribution operations require dependable and durable industrial printers. Honeywell’s PX940 series takes industrial printing to a new level of accuracy and simplicity by providing customers with error-free precision printing intended to increase production efficiency and reduce operational costs. With integrated label verification technology and Operational Intelligence software, the PX940 industrial printer gives customers 100% readable printed barcodes, predictive analytics, and a lower overall cost of ownership.

You can expect extremely precise printing of up to +/-0.2 mm (0.0079 in) that virtually eliminates poor-quality, unreadable labels and barcodes. The smart printing capability allows end users to configure settings without the need of a host computer. With the inclusion of integrated label verification technology, the device checks and ensures that barcodes are accurate every time and instantly notifies you of pass/fail status and ANSI grade. The device is easy to use and maintain, with a color multilingual touchscreen interface and quick side-loading design.

The PX940 printer is ideal for transportation and logistics, pharmaceuticals and healthcare, shipping and distribution centers, industrial manufacturing, automotive parts suppliers, and applications that are regulated and require high precision and error-free printing.

Features:

• Thermal Transfer or Direct Thermal printing
• 3.5 inch color touchscreen LCD display
• All major 1D and 2D symbologies are supported
• Interfaces: USB 2.0 Host (x2), USB 2.0 Device, Ethernet, RS-232, Bluetooth, and Static NFC tag
• Void bad barcodes and a new label is printed
• Verification Mode: Pass/Fail and ANSI grades from 1-5
• Internal Real Time Clock
• Media Type: Gap, black mark, tag, hole, notch, or continuous

Honeywell’s PX940 series is a family of high-performing industrial printers that you can trust. Contact us to learn more about how the PX940 Industrial Printer can provide you with error-free precision printing.

Printing and encoding RFID “smart labels” with an RFID-enabled printer has traditionally been difficult; a classic case of “the Devil is in the details.”  One difficulty users have wrestled with has been “inlay placement.”  Inlay placement refers to the location of the RFID inlay under the label’s face stock.  Although inlays are generally oriented horizontally under the face stock, the inlays can be located towards the bottom of the label, towards the top, or anywhere in between.  In the picture to the right, for example, the inlay is relatively close to the bottom of the label, the “leading edge” as it is often called, because this edge comes out of the printer first. 

Almost every printer brand – and even model – has traditionally had detailed, complex specifications regarding inlay placement, with different specifications for each and every inlay on the market.  The location of the inlay has to be a particular distance from the leading edge of the label in order to maximize the printer’s throughput (speed).  Just a millimeter or two either way, and the performance of the printer can suffer dramatically.  What a mess.  Given that printing and encoding RFID labels is already slower than printing traditional barcode labels, any further loss in performance has often been catastrophic for the end-user.  Waiting for your RFID labels to print and encode can hold up an entire production line.  This all meant that for your printer brand and model, you needed to make sure to order labels with an optimal inlay placement. 

Precise inlay placement also causes some additional problems: 

• It makes selecting labels more difficult. Users need to order their labels very carefully to ensure correct inlay placement.  Does your purchasing department understand inlay placement?  
• It can cause delays in sourcing labels.  Often, a convertor (label manufacturer) will have exactly the label size you need – but with incorrect inlay placement for your printer.  To get labels with optimal inlay placement, the convertor needs to configure their entire production line and run a new batch of labels for you.  This can take several days to several weeks. 
• Finally, requiring a specific inlay placement can mean that users may pay more for their labels.  A quick Google search of classic paper thermal transfer 4×6 RFID shipping labels will show some surprising results.  The very same labels from the very same vendor can have dramatically different prices depending solely on inlay placement.  It all boils down to supply and demand, but if you are on the wrong side of the equation, you may have to pay significantly more for your labels. 

With Printronix Auto ID’s current line-up of RFID printers, these headaches associated with inlay placement are now a thing of the past.  Printronix RFID printers have a unique firmware (the software brains in the printer), which does what they call “Encode During Print.”  In clearer language, this means that the printer will first print some of the label, then switch over to encoding, then switch back to printing and finish up the label.  The printer will automatically either print or encode at any given moment depending on where the label is relative to the printer’s printhead and RFID encoder.  The traditional approaches for RFID printers were to either first print the entire label, then encode the RFID portion (“Print then Encode”) – or to first encode the RFID, then print the label (“Encode then Print”).  But with these traditional approaches, if the inlay is not optimally placed, then the printer needs to back- or forward-feed the label to align it for an operation (printing or encoding) at any given moment.  With Printronix’s Encode During Print functionality, back- and forward-feed are eliminated (other than to overstrike bad labels, which is another blog topic for another day), regardless of inlay placement. 

So far, we have been talking about labels like 4×6 shipping labels that allow different inlay placements.  But what about all of the RFID labels, “tags,” on the market that have predetermined inlay placement?  For example, on-metal tags, plant stakes, small pharmaceutical labels for cold-chain applications, “RTI” tags (Returnable Transport Items), etc., etc.  There are many such tags on the market, and more are being developed and released all the time.  These tags generally have a fixed inlay placement based on their physical design and on simple commercial considerations – they are meant to be “Off-the-Shelf” (OTS) products.  This is another area Printronix’s Encode During Print functionality shines even more.  Because the Printronix printers do not care where the inlay is located, you can use any of these tags and still achieve maximum throughput. 

And these unusual tags often pose physical feed challenges for RFID printers.  For example, on-metal and RTI tags are often thicker than normal smart labels, and they can have abrupt edges between labels, large gaps, etc.  Both Printronix’s T6000e and T4000 series printers were designed from the ground up to work with these more difficult constructions.  The printers are spec’ed for labels up to 1.2mm thick and are available in 4” and 6” print-widths, allowing you to print and encode a wide variety of tags from a single printer – all without sacrificing performance.  

Finding the right RFID solution is always a challenge and having the right resources and help are critical. If RFID sounds like a suitable solution for your business or you have additional questions, feel free to contact us at Barcodes, Inc. We’re always happy to help you find the right solution for your needs. 

Offering a vast array of standard features that are unequaled by its competition, SATO’s CL4NX Plus sets a new and groundbreaking industry standard for ease of use, intelligence, on-board emulations, connectivity, speed of processing data streams, user activity interface, and much more.

Built with integrity, designed with the user and productivity in mind, the CL4NX Plus supports up to 10-inch outside diameter of media and 1968-foot (600-meter) ribbon and incorporates Smart Printhead technology to keep track of usage specific to the mounted printhead. The platen roller with the Pure Line indicator provides a visual wear indicator so users can be proactive when it is necessary to change this vital component. The Micro Label Print Mode provides higher print accuracy for small pitch labels and can dispense labels as small as 10 mm. 

Using SATO Application Enabled Printing (AEP), you can build custom standalone applications that can be run directly on the printer and connect peripheral devices directly to the printer for data input, such as a barcode scanner, keyboard, or weigh scale.

The CL4NX Plus Industrial Printer is fast, precise, and intelligent. It will exceed your expectations of the printing technology of today.

Shop the SATO CL4NX Plus Printer online or Contact your Barcodes, Inc. Account Manager for more information.

Error-prone, mis-printed and unreadable barcode labels continue to cost businesses tens of thousands of dollars annually due to chargebacks, fines and rejected shipments. For example, retailers like Walmart have detailed requirements for on barcode label design/placement. Non-compliance can cost the shipper $5,000 for the second infraction which can double with each infraction. In order to reduce fines and delayed shipments, you need a label printer that can change the landscape of the supply chain. Barcodes, Inc. and Honeywell can help you deliver an industrial barcode printing solution with integrated label verification. Watch how the Honeywell PX940 with Verifier is ideal for regulatory shipment printing:

Contact us today for a free assessment and see if you have the right industrial printing solution in place. Ask us about TrueSupport and our other Design, Deploy and Support services.

Keep up with busy manufacturing and warehouses with the Citizen CL-S700 industrial printer, ideal for use in applications including supply chain, inventory control, asset tracking, packaging, and ticketing.

Why Choose the CL-S700 for Large-Volume Printing?

The Citizen CL-S700 industrial printer is designed for ease of use and durability so you can rely on it to keep working even with high print volumes.

A large LCD screen on the front is programmable for your organization’s needs. Unique to printers in this category, the front-loading rewinder option makes it easier to access along with a Hi-Lift metal mechanism that opens the printer so you can access the ribbon and media.

The CL-S700 can print a number of 1D and 2D barcode types and has seven kinds of fonts and works with a wide range of media types for flexibility:

• Roll or fanfold
• Continuous or perforated
• Die-cut labels
• Tags
• Tickets

The CL-S700 works with wax, wax-resin, or resin ribbons and can print up to 10” per second.

Shop the Citizen CL-S700 printer or CL-S700DT direct thermal model on Barcodes, Inc.

TSC introduces a new generation of industrial printers with the new MH240T thermal printer. The TSC MH240T barcode printer features their best print quality yet – and with the latest print technology, faster processors, and plug-n-play TSPL-EZ firmware you will confidently be printing high-quality labels in no time.

Thermal Smart Control Print Technology

The TSC MH240T printer utilizes “Thermal Smart Control” print technology to help you produce the cleanest, highest quality 1D and 2D barcodes. Using this technology, the printer tracks each pixel to precisely heat it up for the best print quality so your labels can always be easily scanned without worry.

The printer also features 203 dpi resolution and fast print speeds – print labels as fast as 14” per second for efficient, high-volume printing! And for ease of use, the TSC MH240T barcode printer has a 4.3” color LCD touch panel.

MH240T Printer Applications

The MH240T industrial thermal printer is designed for:

• Industrial printing
• Compliance labeling
• Work in process
• Order fulfillment
• Distribution
• Shipping/receiving
• Healthcare labeling & patient safety
• Ticketing
• Electronics & jewelry labeling

Questions?

You can find the TSC MH240T industrial thermal printer online at Barcodes, Inc. or contact your Account Manager for more information on the best printing system for your business.