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Security Labeling in Equestrian Olympic Sports – Customer Spotlight

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 […]

Customer Spotlight: Anyone Know What a Firkin is?

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 . . […]

Self Laminating Labels – Code-N-Seal®

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 […]

You Can Learn to Read Barcode!

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, […]

Microscope Labels – An Optical Reunion: Customer Spotlight

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, […]

Durable UV Ink Printing

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 […]

Helmet Label for Hare Scrambles – No, They Don’t Chase Rabbits!

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 […]

Make It Last: Use Thermal Transfer!

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 […]

Cryovial Labels – MESA: Saving Arteries One Label at a Time

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 UPC

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 […]

Customer Spotlight: Helping to Remove Hunger: Even Labels Aid the Efforts

“Treat the Earth and all that dwell thereon with respect – Remain close to the Great Spirit – Show great respect for your fellow beings – Work together for the benefit of all Mankind – Give assistance and kindness wherever needed. Do what you know to be right – Look after the well-being of mind […]

Scientific Study Labels – University Study on Umbilical Cord Infections

Scientific Study Labels – A Case Study “Research is what I’m doing when I don’t know what I’m doing.”  – Wernher Von Braun Among all the research being done in the world, some very important work is performed right in our neck of the woods, that is― in New England. The work the university’s Center […]