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Card Printer Ribbons: Which YMCKO Fits Your Printer

A plastic card printer is the easy part. The consumables are where the money leaks. Someone orders "a colour ribbon" from a search result, and it...

Oct 11 2026
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Courier Label Printer Shortlist: Which Labels to Order

A parcel label that will not scan at the depot comes back as a failed collection, and the cause is nearly always the media rather than...

Oct 09 2026
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Zebra DS3678 Part Number Decoder: Kit, Cradle or Neither

A warehouse manager orders two DS3678 scanners for a goods-in bench. One arrives at 349 euros as a bare scanner in a box. The other arrives...

Oct 05 2026
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Handheld Terminal Scan Engines: Which Range to Order

A new terminal arrives, the first pallet label at the top of the racking will not decode, and the device goes back in its box. The...

Oct 01 2026
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Zebra GK420d Replacement: Which Label Printer to Order

The Zebra GK420d and the GX420 family were the default shipping-label printers in Baltic, Nordic, Polish and Czech warehouses for well over a decade. Zebra announced...

Sep 29 2026
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Comarch Optima Barcode Scanner and Label Printer Guide

Comarch ERP Optima, Subiekt nexo and enova365 each publish a list of supported external devices, and every one of those lists is mostly cash registers and...

Sep 27 2026
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GPSR Labelling Requirements: What to Print and On What

Since 13 December 2024 almost every consumer product sold in the EU has to carry identification and contact data under the General Product Safety Regulation (EU)...

Sep 25 2026
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Receipt Rolls: Which Size and Grade Fits Your Printer

A box of receipt rolls arrives, the roll drops into the printer, and the lid will not close. Or it closes, prints fine for two days,...

Sep 23 2026
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Which Label Printer for Which Job: A Buyer's Shortlist

Most label printer purchases go wrong in one of two directions. Either a business buys a 60 euro desktop unit for a job that needs 2000...

Sep 22 2026
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Cordless Barcode Scanner: Zebra vs Datalogic vs Honeywell

A cordless barcode scanner in our catalogue costs anywhere from 111 EUR to 706 EUR, and the part numbers give almost nothing away. Two Zebra codes...

Sep 21 2026
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Barcode Scanner Part Numbers Decoded: Zebra, Honeywell

Two boxes arrive. Both say DS2208 on the label. One cost 84 euros, the other 97, and only one of them contains a USB cable and...

Sep 20 2026
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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...

Sep 18 2026
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