Free Tickets To The Show!
Posted by Dana Ritchie on October 23rd, 2008
I have several free tickets to the Direct To Part trade show on November 5th and 6th in Marlboro, MA. Please click here to get your tickets. For more information on the show, please visit their website at www.d2p.com . Any questions you can email me at dritchie@PaladinID.com or call 603.527.0256.
Myth Busters, Busts RFID
Posted by Dana Ritchie on September 3rd, 2008
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Were In At The Design 2 Part Trade Show!
Posted by Dana Ritchie on September 3rd, 2008
It took 8 months of trying, but we finally received the green light and we will be exhibiting at the Design 2 Part trade show in Marlboro, MA on November 5 & 6 2008. One of the reasons this show was of interest to PaladinID is because this targets our core audience and 98% of the exhibitors keep coming back year after year. This show features the brightest minds in contract manufacturing. Find new suppliers for your current or future projects. To find out more, please visit www.d2p.com. We are in booth 550 on the back wall. Please stop by and say hello. We will be showing three new products, a high speed label applicator, a full color thermal transfer printer and a new imager from Honeywell. We will keep you updated as things get closer to the date. If you are in the world of manufacturing, you will not want to miss this show, admission is free!
Team PaladinID
Posted by Dana Ritchie on August 22nd, 2008
- PaladinID’s Fishing Team
Back in July, I was at a family reunion for a week when several family members decided to enter a fishing tournament in Oswego, NY. They chartered the Billy V out of Fair Haven, NY. Pictured from left to right are Brendan and Geren Woodbridge from Allentown PA and Cooper and Gary Laudermilk from Charolette, NC. They had a terrible day weather wise, it was rainy and cold, but the fish were biting. They reeled in 7 salmon with a total weight over 65 pounds. It was a fun and exciting time for all. I asked Gary if he would do it again. He said, “In a heartbeat”. This was the second time this group has chartered a fishing boat on Lake Ontario. They were kind enough to wear the PaladinID colors while fishing. Thanks guys, you look great!
Barcode Printing 101
Posted by Dana Ritchie on August 19th, 2008
I came across a white paper called Barcode Printing 101 from one of our vendors Datamax Corporation that talked about barcode printing. It was one of the best reads I have seen in a long time. It talks about the different barcode symbologies and where they are used along with the media, labels and ribbons that are used to print barcodes. I have posted it in our resource section for all to read. Please feel free to read this and pass it along. Send us an email or call with any questions. We are always here to help solve a barcode related problem.
Price Look-Up Application on Short Notice
Posted by Toby Burrell on August 18th, 2008
    Recently, PaladinID was contacted by a retail client with a serious and time sensitive business problem. They are opening their first stores in MA and have discovered that our busy elected officials on Beacon Hill have thrown them an unanticipated curve ball. It is a law in this Commonwealth that all items in a store be individually price labeled. For those items where that is not practical, the store must provide one price look-up scanner (you have seen these at WalMart) for every 5000 feet of floor space.  Basically, the scanner reads the bar code on the item and performs a search of the store’s point-of-sale data base and then displays the price. In this instance, the scanner is connected to the store’s server via an Ethernet connection.
    Unfortunately, our client was made aware of this requirement about three weeks before the first store was scheduled to open.  They were steered to PaladinID by our good friends at Honeywell Imaging and Mobility.  Honeywell offers a product specifically designed for this application called the Image Kiosk 8560. The 8560 is a Windows based terminal with an integrated bar code scanner the uses Adaptus Imaging Technology for reading 1D and 2D bar codes.Â
   PaladinID then reached out to our partner PSS Products for the software link between the 8560 and the client’s POS application Island Pacific’s OnePointe. PSS Products has a wealth of experience in dealing with Island Pacific software but also in implementing price look-up applications for other retail clients.Â
   With the timely help of our distributor partner Scansource, PaladinID was able to supply the 8560 to PSS Products who were able to load and test the software and deliver the finished product to our client in about a week! If you are in the retail space and have a similar problem give us a call - because that’s what PaladinID does - solve problems!
Mobile Printers Can Now Print Permanent Labels!
Posted by Dana Ritchie on August 14th, 2008
Datamax Corporation just released a new product called D-Transfer that allows mobile portable printers to use thermal transfer printing for a much more permanent label than what is currently available using direct thermal labels. All mobile printers use direct thermal label stock which have a short shelf and use life. The companies the use labels and barcodes have asked for a more permanent solution and Datamax has answered the call. This new product can be used in all mobile printers. We have stock sizes for the O’Neil printer line and custom sizes for the Zebra, Datamax and Sato lines. I am just putting together a white paper that goes into more detail. If you are looking for a permanent solution to your mobile printing needs, here is your answer.  Conact us for more information.
New Thermal Transfer Ribbon
Posted by Dana Ritchie on July 28th, 2008
DNP has released a new thermal transfer ribbon called the W127 that works in all thermal transfer printers. It is a wax formulation that is 15% longer than the traditional 1,476′ for a Zebra printer and 984′ for a Datamax or Sato printer. You ask, how can this be? It is because they use a thinner carrier or liner. It has the same OD (outer dimensions) as the standard OEM ribbons, but there is more length per roll. This ribbon is not only less expensive per foot, it will mean less ribbon changes per day and less shipping costs per order. It is a win win situation for everyone. To find out more about this ribbon or for a sample roll to test. Please contact us.
On-Line Bar Code Verification Revisited
Posted by Toby Burrell on July 28th, 2008
In an earlier post we talked about an application in which our client needed to verify the print quality of bar codes as they were being printed. We recommended an after market bolt-on scanning device that could trigger a divert from the manufacturing line if a sub-standard bar code was detected.
Well, we have another client with a similar business problem - ensuring that the bar codes they print on their products are scannable by their end user customers. However, this application differs in that the labels are printed in a peel and present mode and then manually applied to the product. So, the after market Printronix device was not an appropriate solution.Â
 We consulted with Bruce McDowell at Datamax who recommended the H class thermal transfer printer with an on-board linear scanning device option. This high performance 300 DPI printer employs a CCD scanner to monitor bar code scannability as it is being printed. The user can set a series of thresholds including bar code type, number of bar codes present or minimum number of good reads that must be met by the scanned bar code label. If the bar code does not pass, the user also has a number of remedies to choose including re-printing the label or simply stopping the printer.   Â
While this solution does not provide true ANSI bar code verification it is about half the price of those devices and does provide simple bar code validation which is more than adequate in this and many other applications. We will piloting this device with our client in a few weeks - so, more on this solution later.
Visiting Western New York in July
Posted by Toby Burrell on July 21st, 2008
Last week Dana and I took the opportunity to visit with a number of our vendor partners in the Buffalo NY area. Dana was there with his family visiting Niagara Falls and I drove from Boston to join him. We met with one of our distribution partners, Bluestar who has a regional office in West Seneca NY. The local manager there is our old friend Mike Moscato.
We also got the opportunity to meet with Kathi Phelps at IIMAK, the ribbon manufacturer, who graciously took us to lunch. PaladinID and IIMAK have a relationship that goes back to when Dana started the company. We got an opportunity to tour the plant and meet the sales and marketing staff at headquarters in Amherst NY. Â
We also met with Jeff Bertrand at JH Bertrand in Buffalo. JH Bertrand is a manufacturer of expansion labels - they are the labels that attach to products and fold out to accommodate a lot of information.  We are excited about the prospects for this new product line as it should be a good fit for a number of our existing customers.
Then it was back to the Falls for Dana so he could continue his family vacation and 7 hours of windshield time for me back to Medfield on I-90.
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