| As the weather continues to warm with the | | | | Medical labs use hand held labelers to label bottles |
| breaking of Spring, many farms are gearing up | | | | and packages that can contain an infinite number |
| for another busy season. A popular way for | | | | of contents. Vials of blood, physical body parts, |
| farms to mark their cases of produce with the | | | | chemicals, and sterilized or non sterilized |
| PLU number is by using price guns. It's common | | | | instruments are just a few examples of items |
| for the farm to have a custom printed price label | | | | that need coded and identified. The storage of |
| with their name imprinted on the label. Also, having | | | | items in medical labs can often be in freezers or |
| a label to mark a date with a pre-print reading | | | | extreme environments. Freezer and permanent |
| Best If Sold By is very common as well. A | | | | grade adhesives are sometime necessary to |
| general purpose adhesive will typically work for | | | | insure the label will adhere and remain on the |
| most applications, however, there are cases which | | | | item. Custom price labels are very popular with |
| will need a permanent adhesive price label. | | | | medical applications. Preprinted wording and/or |
| | | | symbols help to classify the item. Then the user |
| Farms use all variety of label guns from many | | | | prints the date and time code to easily identify |
| different manufacturers. The popular Monarch | | | | the item. |
| 1136along with Monarch 1136 labels allow for the | | | | Some of our popular one line date/time hand held |
| grower to put multiple lines of information on the | | | | pricing guns are the Paxar Monarch 1131 with the |
| label. Farms use the one line Primark P-14 pricing | | | | 04 band option, the Garvey 22-8 with the 1808 |
| guns, Garvey 22-8, Monarch 1131, and Towa | | | | band option, and the Meto 2600 series gun model |
| price guns. Popular two line options are Towa | | | | 10.26 with the date/time band. Two and three line |
| pricing guns,XL-Pro pricing guns, Garvey 22-88, | | | | pricing guns tend to be very popular guns in the |
| and Meto pricing guns. You can view and purchase | | | | medical field due to the need of printing more |
| all the label guns listed as well as the Monarch | | | | information on the label. The most popular two line |
| labels, Garvey labels, and Meto labels to go along | | | | gun for marking a date and time code is |
| with the hand held labeling gun at our website. | | | | the Monarch 1136 with the 04 band option. This |
| | | | gun is sometimes called the Monarch Paxar 1136. |
| Pricing guns are offered with a variety of | | | | It's the same gun; Paxar used to own the |
| different band options. A band option is the | | | | Monarch brand. There are many other options |
| configuration of the characters that the print head | | | | from the brands listed above as well as brands |
| of the gun will mark on the pricing label. A date | | | | such as XL Pro, Sato and Towa price guns that |
| and time coding band option is popular for | | | | work very well in the majority of medical |
| identifying food, receivables, and medical supplies. | | | | applications. |
| This blog post will focus on the medical industry. | | | | |