Can a phone replace a barcode scanner? A smartphone camera can read a barcode, and for a few dozen scans a day in a clean office it works fine. A dedicated barcode scanner decodes in milliseconds from several feet away, survives being dropped on concrete, and runs a full shift

Why calibration fails When a thermal printer won’t calibrate, the cause is almost always one of three things: the media-type setting doesn’t match the labels loaded, the sensor is dirty or positioned wrong, or the media has no edge for the sensor to find. The printer isn’t broken. It’s being

What a UDI is and what it’s for A Unique Device Identifier is a code that identifies a specific medical device through its distribution and use. It has two parts: a Device Identifier that says what the product is, and a Production Identifier that says which unit or batch this

Why cycle counting beats the annual count Cycle counting is the practice of counting a small portion of inventory every day on a rotating schedule, so that every location gets counted on a frequency matched to how much it matters. It replaces the annual physical inventory — the one that

MIDCOM Data Technologies, Inc., parent company of MIDCOM Service Group, has named Ken Feinstein its new President and Chief Executive Officer, effective October 1, 2026. Feinstein steps into the role after serving as Vice President, where he played a key role in the company’s executive leadership and helped drive growth

Managing printers you can’t walk up to Printer fleet management software gives you remote visibility and control over every thermal printer in your operation — status, configuration, firmware, and usage — from one console instead of one printer at a time. The value shows up at scale: configuring twelve printers

When the scan works and the data is still wrong Barcode data quality problems are the ones that don’t announce themselves. The scanner beeps, the operator moves on, and the wrong SKU lands in inventory — because the barcode scanned correctly but encoded the wrong thing, or the scanner truncated

Why location labeling decides your pick accuracy A warehouse location labeling system is the addressing scheme that tells every worker and every scan exactly where something is. Get it right and a new hire finds a bin on their first day. Get it wrong and you spend years working around

What a barcode quality grade actually measures A barcode verification grade is a letter score from A to F that says how closely a printed barcode matches the ISO standard for readability — not whether your scanner happens to read it today. A scanner tells you “it scanned.” A verifier

A customer asks for a shirt in a specific size. The inventory system shows one in stock, but the item is nowhere on the expected rack. It may have been returned to the wrong fixture, left in the stockroom, moved to another department, or removed from the store without the