Archive for December, 2008
New Product For Thermal Transfer Printers, Ribbon Leader Guide!
Posted by Dana Ritchie on December 24th, 2008
After being in the industry for over 20 years, I have a new product that I am giving away. I call it the “Ribbon Leader Guide”. How many times have you had trouble threading your printer with ribbon, especially if you change ribbon before the ribbon is completely out or for some reason the ribbon breaks in the middle of a print run? It is always a challenge to get the ribbon threaded through the printer. I have come up with a rigid label tag stock with a slit that you can attach the ribbon to and feed it into the printer. Once it comes out past the print head, remove the leader, load the ribbons on the take-up spindle and print. This leader can be used over and over again and will work for any brand of printer, Zebra, Datamax, Sato, Intermec etc. For a limited time, you can get your free Ribbon Leader Guide by emailing dritchie@PaladinID.com or calling 603.527.0256. You will just loved it and say, “hey, why didn’t I think of it”.
Markem LP 8400 Story
Posted by Dana Ritchie on December 1st, 2008
I have a customer with a Markem LP 8400 that is printing colored labels for an outdoor application. The problem they are having is this machine is 10 years old and it is obsolete. Markem is not supporting this equipment anymore. Not only are they having trouble getting parts, they are having trouble getting supplies, labels and ribbons. Over the past 14 months, I have been working on finding a solution with flexographic inks that would withstand the rigorous testing procedures and last out doors many years. The problem with flexographic inks is that they fade outside in a very short period of time. We could not make it past the 250 hour in the Weather-o-meter testing. I am here to report we have made significant progress. I will be writing more about this application over next several weeks. More to come.
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