Each stage of the logistics chain, from inventory management to shipment tracking, is vital for ensuring smooth operations and timely deliveries. For a robust printing solution that streamlines warehouse inventory labeling, enhances distribution center label printing, and optimizes route and transportation labeling, Barcodes, Inc. recommends the SATO PW4NX mobile thermal printer.

 
Key Features of the SATO PW4NX Label Printer:

• Compact footprint ideal for mobile printing features an easy-to-read 2.4” color display
• Rugged design built to survive can withstand up to 7-foot drops
• IPS54 rated against dust and water
• Remote management enabled, plus connect to a barcode scanner or other peripherals for elevated workplace mobility
• Print 4-inch text and barcode labels in crisp, high-definition detail
• Industry-leading 6 ips print speed
• Choose from multiple label modes: continuous, tear-off, cutter, dispense, or linerless
• Optional forklift adapter
• A true side-kick that troubleshoots issues through self-diagnosis

Enhancing Warehousing Operations

The SATO PW4NX is engineered for easy forklift mounting, enabling warehouse operators to print labels on-demand directly from their forklifts. This integration removes the need for manual label printing stations, saving time and enhancing workflow efficiency. With the 4-inch PW4NX label maker, forklift operators can swiftly generate labels for inventory items, pallets, and locations, minimizing downtime and boosting productivity.

Optimizing Distribution Center Depot Labeling

Distribution centers often handle a wide variety of products destined for various destinations. The PW4NX offers customizable label designs, allowing distribution centers to create labels tailored to their specific needs. From depot identification labels to shipping destination tags, the PW4NX enables distribution centers to maintain consistency and clarity in labeling, reducing errors and confusion during sorting and routing processes.

Streamlining Route and Transportation Labeling

On-demand label printing for shipment preparation is essential for ensuring timely deliveries and accurate routing. The PW4NX mobile label printer enables logistics personnel to quickly generate shipping labels, packing slips, and routing tags as needed. With the ability to print labels on-the-fly, transportation operations can adapt to changing demands and expedite the shipment preparation process, reducing turnaround times and improving customer satisfaction.

Compliance Labeling for Regulatory Requirements:

In the transportation industry, compliance with regulatory standards is non-negotiable. The PW4NX label printer supports compliance labeling with customizable templates for barcoded shipping labels, hazardous materials warnings, and other required information. By ensuring adherence to regulatory requirements, organizations can avoid fines and penalties while maintaining the integrity of their supply chain operations.

Popular Industry Applications

• Manufacturing
• Supply Chain
• Transportation + Logistics
• Automotive
• Retail
• Horticulture
• Aerospace
• Government
• Law Enforcement
• Utilitites

The SATO PW4NX is a versatile printing solution that addresses the unique challenges of warehousing, distribution center depot labeling, and route and transportation labeling. With its forklift integration capabilities, customizable label designs, durability, and on-demand printing capabilities, the PW4NX empowers organizations to optimize their operations, increase efficiency, and deliver superior customer service in today’s dynamic logistics landscape.

Contact Barcodes, Inc. to learn more about rugged label printers like the SATO PW4NX

So you just invested in an industrial label printer for the warehouse. Before you dedicate a table and workstation where it will print labels in one place for eternity, read this.

Printer Placement is Key

Consider strategically placing your equipment on a Newcastle Power Cart, such as the NB300NU2, which is trusted by industry leaders like Walmart, DHL, Tesla, UPS, and Wayfair.

By integrating your label printer with a Newcastle Power Cart, you enable your employees to print labels directly on the pallet, effectively doubling output while significantly reducing errors. This seamless integration ensures that your employees have access to all resources, increasing productivity and reducing costly errors by up to 92%.

Newcastle NB Series Power Carts Pay For Themselves in 6 to 8 Months

The Newcastle NB300NU2 not only simplifies label printing but also streamlines workflow processes, resulting in a remarkable twofold increase in worker output. With this innovative solution, workers no longer need to travel to a distant printer, freeing up their time to focus on important tasks.

Investing in a Newcastle Power Cart like the NB300NU2 provides an excellent return on investment, with most businesses seeing payback within six to eight months of implementation. By consolidating resources and improving operational efficiency, the Newcastle Powered Cart proves to be a valuable asset in increasing throughput while lowering payroll costs.

Integrating your label printer with a Newcastle Power Cart will improve printer performance, period. This powerful pairing ensures increased productivity, fewer errors, and a faster return on investment, allowing your team to accomplish more while maintaining operational excellence.

For a detailed list of features and specifications, download the NB300NU spec sheet.

See the NB Powered Mobile Cart in Action

Contact us today to see how a mobile workstation from Newcastle can reduce redundant movement and inefficiencies in your operation.

How do you increase throughput, shorten order cycle times, and maximize labor productivity, all while maintaining order accuracy in the warehouse? It doesn’t have to be a complicated, high cost challenge. A rugged industrial scanner and printer workstation often solves these issues on its own.

The problem: most dedicated workstations are stationary in one area of work. Imagine a workstation that you can easily cart around. With unparalleled mobility, PC workstations from Newcastle provide extra space for a laser printer, supplies, inventory, and more.

Newcastle Mobile Powered Carts let you tackle all these issues at the same time in a cost effective manner. By bringing your displays, mobile computers, and label printer to the pallet, you eliminate hours of back and forth in the warehouse.

Observe the PC Series Mobile Workstations in an Operational Environment

Key Features of the PC Series Workstation

• Mobile Workspace: Choose from a 30″ or 48″ tabletop, offering ample space for your laptop and paperwork
• High Carrying Capacity: Durable design with a remarkable 400 lbs. load capacity
• Precision Movement: Our specialized casters ensure smooth and accurate mobility, even when fully loaded
• Expandable Tabletop: Add our folding shelf accessory to expand the tabletop to a spacious 66″ x 24″ (11sf in total)
• Battery Options: Available in both lightweight Lithium and SLA battery variants

For a full list of detailed information, download the PC Series spec sheet.

Contact us today to see how a mobile workstation from Newcastle can reduce redundant movement and ineffiencies in your operation.

These are tough times to run a warehouse. How do you increase throughput, shorten order cycle times, and maximize labor productivity, all while maintaining order accuracy? 

Newcastle Mobile Powered Carts let you tackle all these issues at the same time in a cost effective manner. By bringing your printer to the pallet, you slash time walking.

What’s more powerful than a rugged industrial scanner station in the warehouse? One that you can easily cart around thanks to modular power carts from Newcastle.

See the NB Mobile-Powered Carts in Action

Contact us today to see how you can initiate a warehouse solution for maximum productivity and efficiency.

Healthcare teams rely heavily on technology that is not only reliable but efficient. Zebra’s ZQ610/ZQ620 are premium mobile label and receipt printers designed to fit those needs.

These portable printers offer advanced technology and innovative designs that further drive productivity, including the instant wake-up feature to ensure the ZQ600 Series never sleeps on the job.

Rely on the rugged design to withstand the mobility needs of the healthcare industry. Take the stress off your IT department by providing your workers with easy-to-integrate, setup, and secure equipment thanks to Zebra’s Link-OS operating system and powerful Print DNA suite of applications, utilities, and developer tools. Wherever your workers need to go, the ZQ600 Series printers will be at their sides. 

The ZQ610/ZQ620 is the next evolution for mobile label and receipt printing required to meet the gold standard in healthcare facilities.

Zebra Technologies is committed to support a variety of healthcare operational needs. The ZQ610/ZQ620 printers are designed to meet rigorous industry standards by providing:

• Large color display 
• Superior battery management
• Fastest, most dependable wireless connections
• Improved specimen labeling accuracy and patient safety
• Medical grade housing withstands constant exposure to disinfectants
• Advanced technology and innovative design

Meet the healthcare printer that stands above the rest. [Download ZQ610-HC Spec Sheet]

Dependable and easy to use, Zebra delivers high-performance portable printers for healthcare facilities.

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

TSC has introduced their all-new Alpha-2R 2-inch wide mobile printer. The Alpha-2R portable printer offers a great combination of small size, light weight, high durability at an economic price. The Alpha-2R is the third Alpha model of our growing family of cost-effective portable printers from TSC that now includes 2″, 3″ and 4″ wide mobile printers.

The Alpha-2R is a comfortable, light-weight printer capable of working with any mobile printing application where you need access to quick, simple receipts or tickets. The Alpha-2R is TSC’s smallest and most affordable mobile printer. While cost-effective, the Alpha-2R is still equipped with important basic features and offers a selection of competitive accessories.

TSC delivers more for our customers with the Alpha-2R without sacrificing function or performance:

• Print More – Alpha-2R offers the largest media capacity in the 2″ receipt market with a media capacity of 58 mm wide and a maximum media roll out diameter of 50 mm
• Print Longer – Alpha-2R was designed to be Energy Star 2.0 compliant and features 17 hours of usage on a battery charge with an average of a 2 minute printer interval (BT mode)
• Broad Application with excellent printing compatibility – ESC-POS & CPCL & ZPL emulations available
• Print Quality – Smart Algorithm to adjust print speed & condition based on layout & heat history
• Better Warranty – 2-year standard warranty

Star has announced new direct thermal labels certified to work with the SM-T400i portable Bluetooth printer. As the widest format portable Bluetooth printer in Star’s “i” Series, the SM-T400i is a rugged four inch (112mm) portable Bluetooth printer with a wide 104mm printable area, ideal for data-filled service reports, delivery notes or law enforcement citations. The SM-T400i includes both transmissive and reflective sensors, enabling label printing.

The new printing options will help quickly and easily print labels ideal for government, healthcare, manufacturing, retail, and shipping and receiving industry applications. With three thermal label sizes available in various heights, the SM-T400i can accommodate most labeling applications with the ability to print from virtually any device.

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TSC has expanded its new Alpha series of portable printers with the recent introduction of the Alpha-4L, a new portable four-inch-wide-format label printer designed for the manufacturing, transportation/logistics, and retail industries.

Higher performance at its class
The Alpha-4L’s performance-enhancing features include a 5800 mAh large-capacity battery for extended operation, expanded memory to accommodate advanced applications and future firmware enhancements, reliable Bluetooth and 802.11b/g/n wireless communications and a large paper capacity
67.3 mm (2.65”) OD to reduce the frequency of changing paper rolls.

Durability
When used with its optional IP54-rated environmental case, the Alpha-4L offers protection against dust, dirt, moisture, temperature extremes and other harsh field conditions. The printer’s rubber over-mold case is designed to keep the unit working normally even after a 1.5 m (5 ft) drop. When using its environmental case, it can withstand a 1.8 m (6 ft) drop test. And with a high-capacity battery and paper roll, the Alpha-4L maximizes productivity, providing efficient service over a full day’s duty cycle.

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Datamax-O’Neil’s RL4 Improves Productivity and Reduces Costs at Segmüller

Segmüller has a long tradition in the furniture business. It was back in 1925 that Hans Segmüller founded his business as an artisan manufacturing upholstered furniture in the Bavarian town of Friedberg. Today, Segmüller is one of the most successful and well-known furniture stores in Southern Germany with seven locations and more than 4,000 employees.

The primary factor underlying the company’s strong growth is its extensive range of products that includes furnishings to match every budget. Moreover, Segmüller has always had a strong focus on good service. This includes
displaying the greatest possible selection of products in its exhibition areas and delivering the correct furniture to customers as quickly as possible as well as providing helpful in-store support.

Problem

To provide this level of service while remaining profitable, it is vital for Segmüller to work productively and efficiently – and this is doubly true for warehouse processes. The process involved in labeling incoming goods offers significant scope for efficiency gains. Continue reading »

Zebra has announced the discontinuance of the QL 420 Plus mobile label printer. The replacement for this printer is the QLn420. The QL 420 Plus product will continue to be available through Zebra distributors until November 22, 2013, or possibly longer based upon the distributor’s available inventory. Service, parts and support will continue to be available for approximately three years from the last date of shipment (until February 22, 2017).

This is also a good time to switch to the new QLn420 mobile label printer. Remember, the new QLn420 provides all the benefits of the QL 420 Plus and more, in a smaller size!

• Faster print speed at 4 inches per second
• More wireless connectivity options, including Bluetooth 3.0 and 802.11a/b/g/n
• More memory for increased storage of fonts, graphics and files
• Higher capacity ‘smart’ battery
• Link-OS enabled for on-going application and feature updates
• More warehouse application accessories

For assistance updating your Zebra mobile printers, contact us at Barcodes Inc.