Re: Label Printers ? -- MIDRANGE-L

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Hi,

The real issue gets to be what type of printer to use. They will need one dedicated to this and I am not sure what to choose or how to write to it. We have used the Eltron printers for UPS and the labels come on rolls. But that is a PC application that writes to that printer.

We use Datamax printers here. Mostly Prodigy printers that we bought way back in the early 90's. We've got about 30 of these printers and they run ALL the time. By that, I mean from the start of first shift to the end of 2nd shift (approx 16 hours) they are printing continuously, as the workers pull one label out of them at a time and place them on the packages.

We've also had some experience with the newer Datamax printers (such as the I-4208) and if I had to start over again,

We use TL Ashford's Barcode400 software (http://www.barcode400.com) to generate labels, though you can also write your own programs that generate them if you're willing to program in all of the printer escape codes (which I've also done, it's not difficult... the only trick is that there are some control characters that you have to figure out how they'll get translated when sent to the PC to end up with the right results. WSCST helps a lot.)

You can definitely do it without a PC. There are adapters available that even allow you to attach the printers via Twinax. :)

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