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What Are Waterproof Barcode Labels? A Complete Buyer’s Guide
Whether you run a warehouse, manage outdoor equipment, process food products, or track assets in a hospital, one problem comes up again and again: standard paper labels fail. They smear, peel, and become unreadable the moment moisture enters the picture. That is where waterproof barcode labels come in. In this guide, we cover what waterproof […]
Thermal Transfer Barcode Labels: The Complete Guide
Walk through any warehouse, hospital stockroom, or manufacturing floor and you will notice them instantly. Clean black barcodes on crisp white or silver labels, readable by any scanner within milliseconds. Most of them were printed using thermal transfer technology. Whether you are upgrading your asset tracking system, exploring label options for inventory management, or simply […]
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Step-by-step guide to creating DIY vintage metal rim tags
If you’re in love with all things vintage, here is something that will appease your visual senses. Create easy and inexpensive vintage metal tags using the power of tea leaves—all in the comfort of your home. These metal tags have a multitude of uses—gift packing, product packaging and shipping, marking, decoration, scrapbooking, creating DIY […]
High-tech bar codes thwart counterfeiters
In fiction, counterfeiters are discovered when the detective cleverly spots a fatal flaw in the picture on a fiver or a tenspot. In real life, it’s not that easy to tell. Recently, a team of Pacific Rim researchers reported on their work on a new bar code format that they hope will make counterfeiting a […]
On Britain’s largest warship, QR codes map the way
Finding your way around a shopping mall or football stadium can be hard enough – imagine having to navigate the windowless labyrinth of the two mammoth warships that will soon be part of Britain’s Royal Navy. Lucky for the crews working on those ships, there’s now a QR code-powered navigation system to guide them. The […]
Libraries opting for RFID over barcode tags
Library patrons in Wallingford, Connecticut, now have the same checkout options that they do in the supermarket— person-to-person or automated self-checkout. Since the system’s inauguration at the beginning of the year, quite a few patrons are choosing RFID-powered self-checkout. In that respect, they are like library patrons across the country. RFID — Radio-Frequency Identification — […]
Study: “Mobile is the new normal”
The 2013 holiday shopping season proved again and again that consumers are making mobile commerce a part of their lives. Studies of consumer behavior during the holiday season have noted increases in consumer usage of smart phones and/or tablets for holiday shopping—and not just for actual sales transactions. Consumers are scanning bar and QR codes, […]
How Colorado will tag its marijuana
The ghosts of Woodstock must be watching in disbelief at the dawning of the age of legalized, recreational marijuana in Colorado — and they’re probably wondering about the state’s very un-peace-and-love mandate that every baggie of weed be tracked with an RFID tag. Medical marijuana was already legal in Colorado when a referendum on legalizing […]
Headstones with QR codes drag cemeteries into the digital age – including Arlington?
They might not yet rank as a full-fledged trend, but QR-coded ID tags are showing up in cemeteries, linking both the bereaved and the curious to online photos, obituaries, and video and audio memorials to the departed. Whether etched with lasers directly onto the headstone, or tattooed onto a metal or ceramic plaque that is […]