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Hospital finds $2 Million in annaul savings using RFID technology

Found a great success story in RFID Journal on how Bon Secours Richmond Health Systems is using a real-time location system from GE Healthcare to track assets, as well as certain surgery patients, and...

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Opportunities in Education

Schools are another great target market for government Auto ID/POS business. Schools can use our products in so many different ways. Here are a few thoughts: Wireless – installing wireless...

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Seagull Scientific BarTender Label & RFID Software: How to enable “cut job” mode

1. Select Print. You will see the following window. 2. Select Document Properties. 3. Under Document Properties, select the “Stock” tab at the top. 4. Finally, make sure the “Use Current Printer...

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Zebra Card Printers Offer Enhanced Security for Card-based Access

Guest Contributor: Meg Hunter, ScanSource Security Product Manager for Zebra Card Printers There is no question that physical security is a top priority today, especially in the Government and Public...

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Thermal Barcode Printers: Why Use a Thermal Barcode Printer?

Why do I need a special printer just to print barcode labels? Customers often have existing printers they feel they should be able to use for their labeling needs. To understand the advantages of...

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Thermal Barcode Printers: Key Components

Key components of a Thermal Barcode Printer The basic functionality of all thermal barcode printers is pretty much the same. Because of that there are some key features inherent to all thermal barcode...

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Thermal Barcode Printers: What is Direct Thermal Barcode Printing?

Now that we have taken a look at our barcode printing options, let’s focus our attention on Thermal Barcode Printers. The first concept we are going to look at is the difference between the two primary...

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POS Opportunities During Football Season?

Yes, it’s fall and football season is back! I was enjoying beautiful weather and a W on my team’s schedule this past Saturday when I thought about the opportunities our VARs have to sell POS and AIDC...

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Thermal Barcode Printers: What is Thermal Transfer Barcode Printing?

Thermal Transfer: Uses a ribbon to transfer ink to label Crisper printing (important for barcode compliance) Long life span for printed labels Wide range of media material types Ribbon protects...

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Thermal Barcode Printers: A look at Printhead and DPI Requirements

In real simple terms a Thermal Printhead is made up of a series of perfectly square heating elements over a ceramic substrate. These heating elements are usually referred to as dots. The number of...

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Thermal Barcode Printers: Explaining Top of Form

Every printer needs a way of locating the Top of Form (top of the label.) Thermal Barcode Printers have two ways of doing this. Which one you use depends on the type of label you are using. How the...

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Thermal Barcode Printers: Explaining Media and Ribbons

Labels What’s important to keep in mind is there is a media for every application, be that a simple shipping label that only needs to last 3 days, or a warning label that needs to last 10 years on the...

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Thermal Barcode Printers: An Introduction to Options

Now that we have a pretty good understanding of how Thermal Barcode Printers work in general, let’s take a look at some common options. Peel and Present: Dispense Mode Self Strip Present Sensor Most...

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Thermal Barcode Printers: An Introduction to Interfaces

The interface is how the host that is generating the print job communicates with the printer. No one printer is going to support all of these possible interfaces so it can be important to know ahead of...

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Video: Opportunities in RFID with Chris Rezendes

Chris Rezendes, Executive Vice President of VDC Research Group visited ScanSource a few weeks ago and we discussed the future of RFID. He has a great perspective on the technology and the areas in our...

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Printronix SL4M: How To Do A Printhead Alignment

Printhead Alignment SL4M Align the printhead under the following conditions: to improve the print quality when running difficult media with major differences in thickness, when adjusting for media...

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SS Technical Article: What is an IP Rating?

IP rating? Class? Division? N.I.? I-Safe? These are all terms bandied about when talking about mobile devices, but what do they really mean? Let’s take a look at what each means and how they relate to...

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More Information About the Healthcare Stimulus

Healthcare is a hot topic right now – it has its own Vertical Market and even ties in the government with the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA or Stimulus). There are incentives available...

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Take advantage of NFC (Near Field Communication) based technology with...

NFC-based technology has already taken off in European markets from event ticketing to public transportation to ID verification, and now Motorola is brining this technology to the US.  Introducing the...

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Making college campuses safer one RFID system at a time.

If you watch the news, then you have most certainly heard of the security issues facing today’s college campuses.  In the wake of the shootings at the Virginia Tech campus, the leaders at Bob Jones...

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