IT Hardware Insights & Guides

The most expensive mistake in label printing is not buying a refurbished machine instead of a new one. It is buying a desktop-class print...

An RFID label printer does two jobs at once: it prints the human-readable and barcode content exactly like any thermal printer, and it wr...

The same label template, sent to two printers of the same model, producing visibly different output is one of the more maddening problems...

A scanner that returns twelve digits when your system expects thirteen, or strips a character everyone assumed would be there, is not fau...

Print creeping down the label, text running off the edge, or output that starts correct and drifts over a roll are among the most common ...

Diagonal unprinted streaks running across a label, usually at a consistent angle, are the signature of ribbon wrinkle. The ribbon has cre...

Scanner datasheets quote a working range, and buyers reasonably assume it means the scanner reads barcodes up to that distance. It does n...

Two settings on a thermal label printer decide print quality, barcode readability and how long the printhead lasts: darkness and speed. T...

A barcode scanner reads the code the same way whatever it is plugged into. What changes, and what causes most of the integration problems...

Almost every label printer in industrial and retail use prints one of two ways, and choosing the wrong one is the single most common mist...

How linerless label media works without a backing liner, what it saves in roll changes and waste disposal, why it requires a purpose-buil...

What USB, Ethernet, wireless, Bluetooth and serial each do on a label or receipt printer, where each one fails in practice, and why the i...