tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-40364440127599442232012-01-08T13:44:50.724-06:00Everything to do with labels and labeling. Barcodes, Printing labels, Printers for labels and how to get the information you need on the label from your data source.The Label Ladyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06610229554663570534noreply@blogger.comBlogger351100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4036444012759944223.post-33610014794687852112011-04-25T11:06:00.000-05:002011-04-25T11:06:06.831-05:00

OSHA is requiring all chemical manufacturers to be GHS complaint by August 2011. Is your company ready? DrumWizard © V.9 is GHS compliant software designed to address the needs of chemical manufacturers.   GHS – Global Hazard Symbols is being adopted by many countries around the world.  In the United States several agencies have requirements for classification and labeling of chemicals.

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There are several good label software packages available. Whether you are considering upgrading your current label design software or in the market for a brand new software you need to consider Several factors. Shipping label software using multiple barcodes 1. Make a list of everything you would want on your label - What information will you need on the labels? Typical product labels have

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I recently posted a question about how bar codes are used in business. To my surprise I got a variety of answers I did not expect.  I thought I would hear about tracking assets, shipping, receiving, POS systems, but instead I got answers from companies that are using barcodes to track process, an artist who uses barcodes for his inspiration and new uses for barcodes by software companies. I

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Who needs a UPC barcode and what is it for anyway?You need a UPC barcode for any product you intend to sell through retail shops that use the GS1 database. A UPC code is the Universal Product Code – it was created to help business sell their goods and retailers capture the information through a simple scan. Every company who is registered with the GS1 gets a 5 digit Company code that is part of

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Using QR codes on product labels can revolutionize the way we communicate handling information for hazardous materials and potentially save lives. As everyone needing to have MSDS (material safety data sheet) knows, it is hard to provide the information on the MSDS in times of emergencies. Although labels contain some of the information on an MSDS, it cannot contain all the information an MSDS

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Interview with Orit Pennington, Founder of TPGTEX Label Solutions - Starting a Label Company

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Is a ‘Traffic Light’ Coming to Food Labels? - On Fitness (usnews.com)

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Many posts and blogs are discussing the health effects of misleading food labels. I believe that there is another more basic level to the issue. People have the right to make informed choices.  They can eat what ever they like and eat as much as they want. The issue is the misleading information that is put on the food label. The FDA regulates when labels can state "fat free" or "sugar free".

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The NY Times today published an article regarding the supposed confusion experienced by food manufacturers regarding claims they can and cannot put on the food labels. "The Food and Drug Administration said Tuesday that it would seek to clear up the confusion caused by a surge of upbeat nutritional claims — for everything from Froot Loops to mayonnaise — that manufacturers have begun to make on

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The check digit is a simple yet powerful way to let your system know if the barcode was scanned correctly. A barcode by definition is simply coded information. The coded information is machine readable – meaning it can be read by a scanner (the machine.) the scanner needs to verify that what it reads is actually what the barcode contains. The Check digit is the way it checks itself. For example

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There are several answers to this question which explains why there is so much confusion regarding this issue. Each answer represents a solution using barcodes in different ways. Answer 1: The numbers in most barcodes represent a numerical field in some company’s database.Example: Company A has a warehouse full of items. Each item has an ID. The ID is represented in numbers. The ID can be a SKU

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We get this question many times. The simple answer is: Yes.The image on the left is an example of a shipping label that has several barcodes on it. Each barcode is drown from a different field in a database.This particular label has SSCC, Postal Code, and code 128.A good label software program should allow you to do this and even add images.You can read more about finding a good label software

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We were wondering how we could be part of the "green" movement. Is going "green" even makes sense for a small business? Wouldn’t it involve too much work and effort? Would it be expensive? Where should we start? We started with paper recycling- it was an obvious choice, as we were drowning under mountains of paper. We placed a file box in each office. The instruction that went along with

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We are in the Technology business. We have about 30 computers that are used on the regular basis. Over the years we have collected a whole grave yard of old computers. Many years ago, it made sense to upgrade computers. Not anymore! Now-a-days it is cheaper to buy a new computer than to go through the hassle of upgrading. So we asked ourselves, how can we get rid of these computers without

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Since the last time I wrote about this subject, we have expanded our recycling to include: 1. Ink Toner and Cartiges 2. Plastics 3. Aluminum and tin - we donated the tabs to whatever schho/ orginization is collecting them. There is always a group that collects those. 4. Yard waste - we asked our yard people to mow the grass using a mulcher - we are going organic. This, we found out, is the

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It seems that not a day goes by without hearing about how bad the economy is. We, like everyone else are trying to think how to save money. At least our business model is based on getting customers the best return on investment. Our solutions are usually very practical and end up saving our customers hundreds, if not thousands of dollars in barcode equipment, software solutions, etc. As I

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am back from India. It was amazing trip. It was not at all what I have expected. In Many ways I felt as if I went to a different planet. Everything is different there. I had my meetings, again not what I expected. The people were very nice. What I did not expect is to see technology companies on the side of the road in the middle of miles and miles of poor villages and small towns. On one

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I feel bombarded with all this new information about marketing and PR. As it is, I spend many hours a week reading and learning about new technologies that are related to bar-coding.Today I had an interesting call from a University that want to implement an RFID solution. RFID sounds like such a cool technology - and it is. Only that it is still not practical for most companies. The problem

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Our new website is up. We still expect to add more to it. The only problem now is that it does not work in Internet explorer. It is working well in FireFox and Chrome.We need to solve this problem. We started our Google Ad Campaign. We are starting with just two ads and a very small budget to try it out. Our first article will be published in a IT magazine; the subject is asset tracking. I

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We had a terrible set-back with our on-line store. We used an open source store that has a free version. Some of the features in the store did not work correctly. They recommended upgrading the store to the newest version. We followed all instructions, only to find that the entire store inventory was gone! We are in the IT field, so we always make backups and more backups. None of the

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I see that this word is not yet in the dictionary. When I first started bloging, I did it because I just felt like doing it. Now, I find out that it is also used as a marketing tool. Well good for us. I do not think I have any following, but I do not care, since I have truly enjoyed writing it. If it helps us in our marketing efforts than that is great!

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Happy New Year. The phone started to ring! I am hoping that this is a good sign for things to come. We are now busy working with our current vendors to generate more leads. We decided that once our website is up, we will try to use Google ads. Many of the articles I was reading spoke of social networking. That was not something I could envision us doing. So to prove myself wrong, I met a guy

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Marketing Plan for SMB on shoe string budget (part 5) Yes, I am awake. Working non-stop. According to our plan, we needed to market ourselves to vendors. I just did not expect the response we received. One company we talked to said our labeling solution is exactly what they were looking for. They developed a very nice package of warehouse and inventory management that is connected to

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The website is coming along. We want to make it both informational and interactive. We want it to be useful; a place where potential customers can come to and get solid information. PR is the next big item on our list. It seems that anyone can purchase ads but that does not give a company the validity and endorsement as news media can give us. We found a neat list called the HARO. It is a

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Like I promised before, here is the link to the e-business workshop. The name dates it.... I am probably not going to have much time to write – we are redesigning our entire site. We are in the process of collecting material, examining everything to see if it fits our goals. Our tech people just finished re-doing a demo of our DrumWizard software and want us to offer it on the site. We are

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In the past few days I spent hours researching approaches to marketing. The worsening economy produced a bountiful crop of marketing advice for little or no money at all. I noticed however, that most of the advice is for B2C (business to consumer) rather than B2B (business to business). We already answered the most difficult questions: who is our target audience and what we want to

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Marketing has always scared me. I envisioned graphic artists and copy editors PR companies and money, money, money!!!How can a small company like ours afford to compete with the big companies? What is the best approach? Who should we market to? How should we market our products and services? What is the most effective way to market? Can we afford to market? Can we afford NOT to market? So

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Every day seem to bring another story of failure. Another big company is going under. Thousands of employees are laid off. Trying to plan for a better future in this environment is very hard. We were going to do our plan in 2 days, but it was difficult to put our hearts and minds into it. Eventually we did come with a plan this week. It builds on our assessment. Another criteria that we

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I am going to India tomorrow morning. I always wanted to go there. I am fascinated by its history and people. I cannot wait to go. Scheduled some meeting with software development companies. I am not sure that we want to do it, but I do want to know what options we have. I was told to be sure to take toilet paper with me, as they do not use that over there.... First culture shock before I

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We got excited about our success in recycling and reducing paper waste. We now started looking at more things we could do. The next thing on our agenda was cardboard boxes. We receive packages all the time. We like to keep original packaging of our expensive equipment. We had a room that was full of boxes. The regular brown boxes were usually tossed.We took this in small steps. We started

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Well it has been a week since we decided to assess our current situation. Putting on paper the assessment was a very interesting process. We had to take a step back and look at everything with a fresh set of eyes. We played a little role playing game: The rules - explain to someone who does not know anything about our company:1. Who we are2. What we do3. What we have to offer I am sharing

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Seeing the big guys go to beg in Washington fills me with both anger and frustration. Our bottom line probably just looks like one little line item in their balance sheet. Yet, here we are - we the small business owners, are not begging for the government to save us. While the big business and investment bankers are figuring out how to get money from the government, we are sitting here

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IKE - the storm from hell Two weeks, two &!#$% weeks without electricity. Never in my life did I think that living in the 4th largest city in the USA will feel like living in a third world country. The night of the storm was scary. At 10:00pm we lost power. Transformers were blowing all around us in crazy green and blue colors. It was like an eerie fireworks display. The next morning, we

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I am not quite sure what to think of this. I have lived in Houston for 22 years. Usually they warn us, and then nothing happens. Just like when Rita hit. We were ordered to evacuate. We left on a Wednesday to go further inland – to Willis Texas. In Texas terms that is very close – only 60 miles away. Those were the longest 60 miles of my life. Yes, we were stuck in traffic for 18 hours. We

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