Scanners and Digitizers

Sears needed an integrated total solution to meet its retail distribution bar-code labeling needs. In conjunction, Sears needed a proven solution to recommend to its vendor community. Although Sears achieves high levels of compliance with its vendors, the company seeks new ways continually to improve efficiency in its vendor-retailer supply chain. Sears turned to Printronix to analyze its situation and provide a complete solution to its compliance labeling problems. To improve efficiency and solve Sears' label scanning problems, Printronix recommended its T5000 printers with Online Data Validation (ODV). Sears found that ODV provides a cost-effective, hands-free quality-control process to ensure that faulty bar codes aren't affixed to products. tech news

Certified Grocer employs a just-in-time inventory model, ensuring the highest quality and the broadest selection available throughout the United States. To respond efficiently, Understanding the customer's needs for a durable and reliable printer, Printronix presented Certified Grocer with a solution featuring its laser products and related applications to increase supply-chain efficiencies. These continuous-form laser printers have the capability to print high-resolution forms, as well other media, such as plastic cards, pressure-sensitive labels and synthetics. tech news

ThyssenKrupp Budd operates 30 facilities in North America. Automaker studies have identified errors in parts shipping as one of the main causes of assembly line stoppages. As a result, automakers have begun warning suppliers that hard consequences would follow labeling mistakes that forced line shutdowns. While ThyssenKrupp Budd's shipping accuracy was just fine, it had a pretty strong incentive to keep it that way. That's where Intermec and ToolWorx Information Products, an Intermec partner, came in. ToolWorx loads its software onto an Intermec EasyCoder F4ci bar-code printer to create what it calls the ToolWorx Programmable Logic Controller (TWPLC) printer. tech news

In the Stuttgart government offices the administration of written records is divided between 5 records offices with a total of 51 records officers. As part of working procedure the records officer enters the electronic document itself, together with its corresponding meta-information, into the document management system. The document is then printed out and the file reference is noted on the document. This is where the barcoding system comes in - and very efficiently too. The file reference is issued via the Intermec EasyCoder C4 barcode printer and then attached to the document. tech news

When it came time for a technology refresh, the law firm Sebaly Shillito + Dyer decided that adding HP to its team would give be the best long-term technology solution. Now lawyers, paralegals and support staff are able to work more efficiently and productively, in the office, at client locations and in the courtroom. IT costs are predictable and the IT staff can focus less on hardware support and more on providing technology that can give SS+D lawyers an advantage in preparing documents and presenting cases. tech news