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Label Roll Size Guide: Core, Diameter and Ribbon Fit
Most label rolls that come back to us are the right label on the wrong roll. Width and height are the two numbers everyone checks, and...
Mobile Terminal Total Cost of Ownership: 20 Units, 5 Years
A twenty device handheld rollout gets quoted as a single line: twenty units at a unit price. That line is usually under half of what the...
Receipt Printer Replacement: Upgrade or Repair Your Till
A receipt printer rarely fails all at once. It jams once a week, the cut leaves a ragged tail, the driver refuses to install on a...
Label Printer Setup for Erply, Directo and Baltic ERPs
A thermal label printer that produces a clean test label from its own front panel, then a shrunken, shifted barcode the moment the ERP sends a...
Barcode Scanner Setup for Erply, Directo and Loyverse
A scanner arrives, you plug it in, and the till field fills with the wrong characters. Or nothing arrives at all, because the software was listening...
Thermal Label Materials: Which Roll to Order for Each Job
A label printer will print onto the wrong material without complaining. The failure turns up later: a courier label gone grey in a warm van, a...
Rugged Tablets and Laptops: Which Model for Which Job
Most people who ask us for a rugged tablet have one of two pictures in their head, and both are usually wrong. Either they want a...
Thermal Transfer Ribbons: Wax vs Wax/Resin vs Resin
A label that scans on the printer and smudges to grey in the warehouse two weeks later is not a label problem. It is a ribbon...
Zebra Part Number Decoder: TC22, TC27, TC53e, TC58e
A Zebra mobile computer part number tells you everything about the device you are buying, and almost nobody reads it. Two terminals that look identical in...
Receipt Printer Troubleshooting: 9 Faults and Real Fixes
A receipt printer fails at the worst possible moment, with three customers waiting and nobody senior on the floor. The reflex is to swap the cable,...
Label Printer dpi Explained: 203, 300 and 600 Compared
Almost every desktop label printer is sold in two versions that look identical from the outside: 203 dpi and 300 dpi. The 300 dpi version costs...
Barcode Scanner Total Cost of Ownership Over Five Years
A barcode scanner is one of the few pieces of shop equipment where the price on the box tells you almost nothing. A corded DS2208 at...











