IT Hardware Insights & Guides

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...

A rebuild is the most dangerous period in the life of a RAID array. Protection is gone or reduced, every surviving drive is working harde...

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 hot spare is a drive sitting in the server doing nothing, waiting for another drive to fail so the controller can rebuild onto it autom...

A server that was fast last month and is crawling this month, with no configuration change, no failed drive and nothing in the applicatio...

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...

The Dell RN698 is a DisplayPort male-to-male video cable, listed across the parts market at around six feet in length and also appearing ...