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Thermal Transfer/direct Therma 4LPS 203DPI 4.1IN Max Barcode Print List Price: $645.00 Sale Price: $412.39  |
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It has always been Citizen's tradition to produce unique and innovative label printers and the CLP 621 is no exception. Even though the CLP 621 is aimed at the entry level and desktop printer environment, it is packed full of features and options usually only found on high performance machines... |
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Print Ribbon - Black - W300 Barcode Printer List Price: $129.99 Sale Price: $6.56 Used From: $1.99 |
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Item #: 444466. Wasp Bar Code is the industry leader for bar code office products. Wasp Bar Code has revolutionized the bar code industry by making these productivity solutions intuitive for small business, yet powerful enough to be used by Fortune 500 companies... |
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Item #: 103745. Wasp Bar Code provides the proven technology to help fulfill this demand for office productivity solutions including barcode fonts, barcode scanners and printers. Built on the belief that barcode solutions were often overpriced and too complicated to implement, Wasp set out to reinvent the industry... |
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KeyTronicEMS F-SCAN-PS001US Standalone Finger Print Scanner List Price: $133.77 Sale Price: $87.87 |
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Item #: 986137. The F-SCAN-PS001US fingerprint product provides the ultimate in security for network users. The system uses fingerprint minutiae recognition to authenticate access to a network server, personal workstation or notebook computer... |
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Zebra ZP 450 Label Printer CTP Sale Price: $339.99 |
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The direct thermal Zebra ZP 450 bar code label printer was designed specifically to print UPS WorldShip shipping labels, PAYPAL/USPS thermal shipping labels. No toner, no ribbons, and a fixed media width optimize printing of shipping labels... |
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Ideal for money-saving monochrome applications such as printing smooth black and white photos, text and visible-light-readable bar codes. Main FeaturesManufacturer: Fargo ElectronicsManufacturer Part Number: 81734Manufacturer Website Address: www... |
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Fargo Electronics Standard Blck Mono Resin Ribbon 1000 Prints Fargo Card Prntrs Only List Price: $27.50 Sale Price: $10.72 |
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Ideal for money-saving monochrome applications such as printing smooth black and white photos, text and visible-light-readable bar codes. Main FeaturesManufacturer: Fargo ElectronicsManufacturer Part Number: 81736Manufacturer Website Address: www... |
Choosing A Barcode Printer
Nowadays barcode printers of different price ranges are available in all shapes and sizes. On technical grounds, the general-purpose inkjet and laser jet printers are not capable of printing barcodes. Normally an add-on component or a module needs to be attached to them. For example, with the help of a flash card provided by Capella Technologies, a general-purpose HP laser jet printer becomes capable of printing barcodes. But this kind of barcode printer can only support a limited number of symbologies.
On the other side, thermal barcode printers can support multiple symbologies without any add-on component.
A barcode printer can print barcodes in two ways namely, “thermal transfer” and “direct thermal”. In the direct thermal method, the barcode is directly printed while in the thermal transfer method, a ribbon is used along with a print head. The print head is used to etch the image on a specific area after heating the ribbon.
Compared to direct thermal, the thermal transfer method is suitable for printing barcodes on various materials. So when deciding to buy a barcode printer, consider what type of material you will need to print the barcodes on.
The large barcode printers normally can switch between thermal transfer and direct thermal. The need to change the ribbon frequently is one of the disadvantages of thermal transfer. There could be a huge downtime in cases where the barcode printer is used in a manufacturing industry. If you are not printing a lot of barcodes continuously and if you are looking for faster output, then you should go for a “direct thermal” printer. For example, a direct thermal printer would be useful in a situation such as a hospital where a barcode is given to each warded patient for identification purposes.
Suppose you have to print hundreds of barcodes simultaneously. Then you can go for a thermal printer from zebra or symbol. They are quite good from the point of view of functionality and speed. It is advisable to buy a barcode printer having a large print width as well as a large capacity for print label.
During the last couple of years, the barcode printing technology has evolved tremendously. Recently, many security-related features have been implemented by barcode manufacturers in order to ensure that there is no fake coding. The newest barcode printers are even able to print labels coming with RFID tags. These security features have become compulsory nowadays in certain industries as well as manufacturing units and they also help providing an authentication guarantee.
When deciding what barcode printer to buy you must also take into consideration what environment the label will be used in, because in many cases when the barcode itself gets damaged it cannot be read, because of this you must pay close consideration as to how durable you will need your barcode to be, here is a simple guide on how to identify you barcode needs.
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Minhaz Parvez writes on barcode printers, barcode scanners, and many other technical as well socio-cultural topics.
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