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Zebra ZD620 vs ZD621: Reading the Part Number
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Zebra ZD620 vs ZD621: Reading the Part Number
Put a Zebra ZD620 and a Zebra ZD621 side by side and almost nobody can tell you which is which, or what either one actually does. Same fo...
Sep 19, 2026
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Toshiba B-EP2DL Mobile Label Printer Guide
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Toshiba B-EP2DL Mobile Label Printer Guide
Almost nobody shops for a Toshiba mobile label printer in the abstract. People pick a Zebra or a Honeywell when they start from nothing a...
Sep 19, 2026
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SATO WS412DT vs CG412DT: What 305 dpi Buys You
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SATO WS412DT vs CG412DT: What 305 dpi Buys You
Buyers rarely arrive at this decision asking about resolution. They arrive asking which SATO desktop printer to put on the bench, having ...
Sep 19, 2026
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Honeywell RP2A and RP2F Mobile Label Printers
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Honeywell RP2A and RP2F Mobile Label Printers
A mobile label printer gets judged on things that never appear on a spec sheet. Resolution, speed and connectivity are what buyers compar...
Sep 19, 2026
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Zebra Mobile Label Printers: ZQ, QLn, RW and QL
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Zebra Mobile Label Printers: ZQ, QLn, RW and QL
Almost nobody searches for a Zebra mobile printer by name. They search for the thing printed on the label of the unit that has just died ...
Sep 19, 2026
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Honeywell Xenon 1900h Healthcare Scanner Guide
Barcode Scanners
Honeywell Xenon 1900h Healthcare Scanner Guide
Scanner selection in a clinical or laboratory setting usually starts with the wrong question. People ask which model is approved, or whic...
Sep 19, 2026
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Brady Label Printers: BMP51, BMP71, BBP11 and S3100
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Brady Label Printers: BMP51, BMP71, BBP11 and S3100
Facility identification is one of the few printing jobs where the specification of the printer is the second question. The first is where...
Sep 19, 2026
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CognitiveTPG Label Printers: LBD, DBD, DBT and CXD
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CognitiveTPG Label Printers: LBD, DBD, DBT and CXD
Ask for a CognitiveTPG DLXi and you have not yet said what you want. We hold that model name under five different part numbers, and betwe...
Sep 19, 2026
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TSC Label Printers: TTP, MH and Alpha-3R Explained
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TSC Label Printers: TTP, MH and Alpha-3R Explained
Two printers sit in our stock under names that differ by a single space. One is listed as TTP-244 CE, an industrial thermal transfer unit...
Sep 19, 2026
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Bixolon Label Printers: XD5, XD3 and SLP-DX220
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Bixolon Label Printers: XD5, XD3 and SLP-DX220
Most label printer purchases are not really printer purchases. They are decisions about whether thousands of existing label formats, writ...
Sep 19, 2026
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Datalogic Gryphon GD4500 vs GBT4500 Compared
Barcode Scanners
Datalogic Gryphon GD4500 vs GBT4500 Compared
The short answer is that the Datalogic Gryphon GD4500 and the GBT4500 are the same scanner with the cable removed. Both are 2D area image...
Sep 19, 2026
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Honeywell PC43d vs PC45d: Desktop Printers Compared
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Honeywell PC43d vs PC45d: Desktop Printers Compared
Two desktop direct thermal printers, one chassis family, and a model name that changed. The Honeywell PC43d and the Honeywell PC45d are b...
Sep 19, 2026
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