“Do Your Cable Labels Come With Software?” This is probably the #1 FAQ for our Label Experts!! We’re not sure why we get asked this question so often. It always makes us scratch our collective heads. We do know that there are millions of wires out there, snaking across workspaces and creating general chaos and […]
Nanavut Gold Needs Mining Tags North of the 60th Parallel! What’s there? And what would they need mining tags for? The Canadian territories of the Yukon, the Northwest Territories and Nunavut along with the remote parts of the U.S. For those of you who find it hard to keep up with geographical changes, Nunavut is […]
School Asset Labels for Universities One of our higher education customers was ahead of the game this spring when they contacted us for extra tough labels to put on the door frames in all their residence halls, classrooms, student activity centers and maintenance buildings. These door frame labels will be used along with school asset […]
Produce distribution requires inventory storage, inventory storage requires a widespread warehouse and a widespread warehouse requires barcode labels that can scan long distances. For sizable warehouse applications, retro-reflective labels are the way to go. The family-owned enterprise that we work with is responsible for importing produce, storing it, and distributing it to local stores (where […]
PROBLEM: Barcodes printed on Direct Thermal label material are not supposed to look as bright and vivid as those printed with ribbons on Thermal Transfer media. If they do, then more than likely you are applying too much heat to give them the super dark look you like. Unfortunately, by cranking up the heat, the […]
Who said labels are boring? Well, if you have been in business as long as EIM has been (since 1987!) you will find that that couldn’t be further from the truth! We love it when we are challenged with interesting applications and one of them fits right in with everyone’s favorite fall sport. We were […]
Do You Need Glove-Friendly Labels? Many customers look for tacky, aggressive adhesives that feel “extra sticky” to solve tough label applications. These adhesives are popular on dirty, contaminated & uneven surfaces. They also adhere to low-surface-energy plastics that emit out-gassing. They bond very well, but they can be a pain to die cut and put […]
ADAPTIVENESS: Does your label manufacturer adapt to change and keep up with new technologies to remain state-of-the-art? Your label supplier (and partner) should be able to recommend the most current innovations to meet your die-cutting and printing requirements. If your supplier’s specialty is too narrow, chances are they will be unable to grow with you […]
For most of us, the term “corrugated boxes” makes one think of a brown paper board material with rippled channels that resemble ribbon candy between two pieces of paper. Paper boxes should be relatively easy to label, right? WRONG! Unlike writing papers and paper labels where print quality is crucial and standards are higher, corrugate […]
You may have noticed that EIM uses the term “plastic” to describe a lot of our durable label materials for our products. We do that because there are so many variations of film-based materials. Much of what we have learned about plastic surface applications also applies to plastic labels. Many times plastic labels can be […]
Chances are you don’t have a crockmeter (aka Taber abrader) in your office or out back in the stock room. This type of equipment is typically used by material manufacturers and label converters like EIM to check the image durability of our printing ribbons or inks on our label substrates. So what do you do […]
At EIM, we measure many different statistics as we serve our customers. One measurement we look at is the percentage of orders that ship on the day we promised. In November, 97% of our orders shipped on or before the promised day – and 61% shipped at least a day earlier than promised. This is […]
