Monthly Archives: January 2012

Honeywell Dolphin 6100 for scanning QR codes

Our customer required a rugged, cost effective solution to enable their production staff to easily scan QR codes on a busy shop floor, manufacturing environment. Our customer, the UK’s largest packaging supplier, needed the ability to capture and scan data from the QR … Continue reading

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Zebra Sees Growth in RFID

Zebra Sees Growth in RFID As the market experiences a renewed interest in radio frequency identification, Zebra is seeing a revived growth in the RFID product category. Driving this renewed interest is the evolution of item-level tracking for emergency business-improvement applications such … Continue reading

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Thermal Printing Frequently Asked Questions

What does Direct Thermal mean? All thermal printing uses heat in the printing process, Direct Thermal is a method of printing, it involves the printer applying heat to heat sensitive labels to create the image straight onto the label without the … Continue reading

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The SPM Printer Maintenance Promise.

What do you do if your label printer breaks down during a crucial print run? Many companies only realise they need  maintenance cover when it’s too late, which is why SPM offer a cost effective cover program to protect you … Continue reading

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Thermal Transfer Ribbons for Pharmaceuticals Company

Given the challenging brief of reducing our customers current costs but also needing to increase the barcode print quality on their existing Sato CL412e printers we worked very closely with our customer to test print and approve a number of different wax-resin thermal transfer ribbons. … Continue reading

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Zebra GK420d Printers and Blue Labels

We have just completed the installation of 6 off Zebra GK420d printers to one of our existing customers, a logistics company with distribution depots at all of the UK’s major airports. Our customer required our specialist label supplies knowledge to … Continue reading

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