“Want me to give you a piggyback ride?” That is a fairly common question when it comes to children. But would you ever think that labels ride piggyback? Well they do, and it is almost as common as a child getting a piggyback ride. Piggyback labels ride on the back of other labels and move […]
Long-Range Labels, a Story It was another dark, routine morning, driving to work in the fog that seemed to have won the fight against the sun—just like it had been for the past week or so. Squinting hurts your eyes as headlights reflect off the street signs. Signaling the cars behind you as you pull […]
The Veterinary Genetics Laboratory (VGL) of the School of Veterinary Medicine, is renowned for its precision in animal DNA testing. Their work encompasses a wide amount of animal lineage verification, forensics, genetics and disease research. One of their interesting programs involves DNA drug testing for equestrian sports. Here blood and urine samples are taken to […]
One customer inquired about a laser labeling solution for the tap handles at his upscale saloon—which in turn is “provisioned” by his specialty microbrewery. Although he had tried various other products, the labels kept falling off from the curved surface of the tap handles and from exposure to his . . . well . . […]
Our Innovation Team’s Brainchild: Code-N-Seal® Self Laminating Labels! The newest design of “Code-N-Seal®” labels comes from the inspirations of our own Innovation Team, a group of creative co-workers with various backgrounds in production, sales, and marketing. What makes these labels so unique is their “piggyback” format – a term we use in the labeling industry […]
We are nerds and we know it. We eat, sleep, joke about and critique barcode labels all the time, here at EIM. One of us even owns a pair of barcode label cufflinks. He was busted wearing them at one of our holiday parties. We know, we know. Pathetic. What’s good about our nerdiness, however, […]
One of our interesting customers that purchases microscope labels has a remarkable history dating back to the mid-1800’s when they first opened their doors as a workshop for precision mechanics and optics in Germany. Their incredibly complex work covered a wide range of product development. By defining the criteria of sharper imaging in optical lenses, […]
The grass always seems greener on the other side, doesn’t it? Well, in this case, it certainly can be! When it comes to printing inks for your labels, it may seem like color options are rather limited to your standard red, blue, green, yellow, orange, etc. Well, that has all changed now, with the development […]
We have a customer who needed a helmet label that hosts an off-road motorcycle-racing event known as a Hare Scramble. Naturally, we thought it referred to some peculiar breed of fox hunting—led by a master of foxhounds in a silly hunt cap chasing a red fox. Nothing could be further from the truth. It’s about […]
Would you use gas-receipt paper to keep your important information? You know the stuff: Very thin, flimsy paper that gas pumps, slot machines, cash registers and information kiosks spit out after each transaction. If you don’t crumple it up in a little ball right away, you may tuck it away for an expense report or […]
Atherosclerosis, hardened arteries, a condition of plaque build-up in the arteries… Studies have been conducted throughout the years, but none such as the one MESA has put into action. MESA―short for the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis―is sponsored by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health, has made headway in […]
The Universal Product Code (UPC) is a barcode symbology that is widely used in the United States and Canada for tracking trade items (fancy term for products) in stores. Practically every item purchased from a grocery store, department store or mass merchandiser has a UPC barcode on either a label or a tag. This helps […]
