Category: Hardware & Software

Investing in the Future! Our New Energy Efficient Inkjet Press (VIDEO)

Practicing sustainable manufacturing can be hard for high-waste industries like label converters. Thankfully, that won’t be the case forever, thanks to advances across the board in our industry! We took a big step forward ourselves this year with making how we make labels better—not just for our customers, but by improving our energy consumption. We’re […]

Need Labels for Your Asset Tracking Software? We Can Help!

The Label Experts have a long history of creating made-to-order labels for software developers. It’s common for creators of asset tracking software to need a labeling solution that can withstand harsh weather conditions; including extremely high and low temperatures, sun, water, and high winds. One developer we worked with needed to track anything from a […]

Buyer Beware: Don’t be Fooled by Counterfeit Printers & Scanners

Hunting for a cheap printer or scanner? Don’t be fooled by too-good-to-be-true prices! There’s been an uptick in fraudulent products being hawked online lately—and that includes label printers and barcode scanners. As an authorized reseller of many industrial printers and scanners, we’re always happy to provide our customers with label related hardware, but we understand […]

Second to None Tech Support for Labels & Printers

Printing your own barcodes can be very confusing. From configuring labels with barcode printing software, configuring your label printer, to making sure you have the right label. There are a lot of difficult steps that can lead you to accidentally mess up your labels. To save you time and money, The Label Experts offer top […]

Printing Ribbon – Choosing the Right One for Your Lab

So, you’ve graduated to the big leagues ―to the pinnacle of label printing―into the world of thermal transfer printing? Your laboratory labeling challenges have exceeded the capabilities of the lowly laser printer and even the constrictions of direct thermal printing, eh? You need really durable labels—these other technologies will simply not do the job. While […]

Handwriting Labels Cramps

So you’ve got a situation on your hands. You’ve been handwriting labels for years, but now you notice productivity isn’t where it should be. You’re paying employees for more labor hours, but see even less output since there are so many mistakes. Handwriting Labels–Worth It? Statistics show that 1 out of every 300 handwritten characters […]

Proper Care of Your Printhead

With appropriate care and routine maintenance, the life of your printhead (for direct thermal or thermal transfer printers) can be greatly extended. It’s important to think of printheads as replaceable consumables, just like labels and printing ribbons. However, a printhead is actually the most important part of your printer. It is also the most delicate […]

Handheld Scanner – The Battle of the Scanners

So you don’t know which scanner you need for your barcode? Well, that is quite a dilemma. But EIM is here to make things a bit easier for you. All you need to know is right here: If you are looking for a handheld scanner, then there are two dominating technological types to choose from. […]

Label Printing: Troubleshooting Tips & Tricks

Print quality is one of most common complaints we encounter in the label business. Many times, only minor adjustments are needed and so we will begin a series of articles aimed at providing you some printing guidance. Problem: Thermal Labels have poor print quality and the image is too light, faded or missing print Potential […]

Label Ribbon – CSI vs. CSO: What Does That Mean?

When you place an order for printing ribbons, we will ask you what printer model you are using and whether the ribbon is coated side in (CSI) or coated side out (CSO). This refers to how the printing ribbon comes off the roll and feeds through a printer. Printers like Zebra and TSC use the […]

How Do Barcode Scanners Really Work?

You have probably seen scanners at work “reading” barcodes. We know some form of intelligent understanding takes place as a flashing red light passes over a barcode. But what is really going on? The purpose of a barcode scanner is to scan (read) a barcode symbol and then provide an electrical output to a computer […]

Getting Good Print Results with Direct Thermal

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 […]