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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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Card Printer Troubleshooting: Fix Fades, Jams and Encoding

A badge printer sits unused for three weeks, then someone needs twenty staff cards by Friday. That is when the faults show up: washed out photos,...

Sep 19 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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Mobile Terminal Total Cost of Ownership: 20 Units, 5 Years

A twenty device handheld rollout gets quoted as a single line: twenty units at a unit price. That line is usually under half of what the...

Sep 17 2026
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Receipt Printer Replacement: Upgrade or Repair Your Till

A receipt printer rarely fails all at once. It jams once a week, the cut leaves a ragged tail, the driver refuses to install on a...

Sep 16 2026
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Label Printer Setup for Erply, Directo and Baltic ERPs

A thermal label printer that produces a clean test label from its own front panel, then a shrunken, shifted barcode the moment the ERP sends a...

Sep 15 2026
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Barcode Scanner Setup for Erply, Directo and Loyverse

A scanner arrives, you plug it in, and the till field fills with the wrong characters. Or nothing arrives at all, because the software was listening...

Sep 14 2026
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Thermal Label Materials: Which Roll to Order for Each Job

A label printer will print onto the wrong material without complaining. The failure turns up later: a courier label gone grey in a warm van, a...

Sep 13 2026
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Rugged Tablets and Laptops: Which Model for Which Job

Most people who ask us for a rugged tablet have one of two pictures in their head, and both are usually wrong. Either they want a...

Sep 12 2026
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Thermal Transfer Ribbons: Wax vs Wax/Resin vs Resin

A label that scans on the printer and smudges to grey in the warehouse two weeks later is not a label problem. It is a ribbon...

Sep 11 2026
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Zebra Part Number Decoder: TC22, TC27, TC53e, TC58e

A Zebra mobile computer part number tells you everything about the device you are buying, and almost nobody reads it. Two terminals that look identical in...

Sep 10 2026
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Receipt Printer Troubleshooting: 9 Faults and Real Fixes

A receipt printer fails at the worst possible moment, with three customers waiting and nobody senior on the floor. The reflex is to swap the cable,...

Sep 09 2026
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