Material and Printing Options for Barcoded Patient Wristbands

Posted by RAD DeRose | Date: March 5, 2013

You’ve decided to deploy barcoded patient wristbands, but what wristband materials and what printing options should you select? Zebra Technologies’ recent white paper, It’s All in the Wrist: Improving Patient Safety with Barcode Wristbands, provides valuable insight into the competing considerations that will drive those decisions. Wristband Materials First and foremost, the wristband you deploy…

Of Pirates and Sunlight-Readable Platforms

Posted by Jeremy Miller | Date: March 4, 2013

In one of my favorite episodes, the MythBusters tested a theory on why pirates are classically depicted as wearing eye patches. Was it to cover empty eye sockets, or because of some more mundane aspect of their shipboard lives? The MythBusters concluded that pirates wore eye patches to keep one eye fully dark adapted, something…

The New L-Tron 4910LR Is Stopping Traffic In North America

Posted by RAD DeRose | Date: March 1, 2013

The next generation of scanning has arrived for Department of Transportation, Law Enforcement and security agencies. The new 4910LR-151-LTRK (4910LR) from L-Tron, set to be released on April 1st, 2013, is powered by Honeywell’s 6th generation of world-class image engine technology. The 4910LR delivers aggressive bar code scanning of 1D, PDF and 2D codes on…