Coding, Printing & Labeling

Printed electronics spark interest

Motorola’s technology for economical printed electronics for smart packaging and RFID applications has the attention of printers, converters, packagers, and others.

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Conveying & accumulation

RFID testing facility

The Kennedy Group’s RFID group has opened an extensive RFID testing facility on the grounds of its 30-acre campus in Willoughby, OH, just Northeast of Cleveland.

January 31, 2005

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Integrated RFID data

Comtrol and CapTech Ventures have teamed to integrate Comtrol's DeviceMaster® ATS and DeviceMaster®RTS with CapTech's TagsWareME®.

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Coding, Printing & Labeling

Tesco places major RFID order

The world’s third largest retailer plans to RFID-enable 1괌 stores and 35 distribution centers across the United Kingdom.

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RFID plans at Starbucks

Coffeehouse chain plans to use the technology to let suppliers make after-dark deliveries.

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Nestlé tags pallets in Europe

Nestlé has begun automatic tagging of UHF RFID tags onto pallets of products destined for Metro supermarkets.

January 31, 2005

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RFID one-on-one with Kevin Ashton Part 2

RFID Antenna exclusive: RFID authority Kevin Ashton, co-founder of the MIT Auto-ID Center at MIT and now VP marketing with RFID reader vendor ThingMagic, provides insights and observations in this second of a two-part exclusive interview conducted in early December.

January 31, 2005

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WIDE-WEB THERMAL SOLUTIONS: M10e Series Printers

The M10e wide web thermal industrial printers are ideal for a range of applications.

January 31, 2005

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HF for RFID?

RFID Antenna exclusive: Don’t give up yet on the high-frequency range for RFID, industry insiders say. It may yet take a foothold for item-level tagging of drugs.

January 31, 2005

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The Packaging Pushback Club

Among the more regrettable developments in the ongoing saga of RFID implementation is the emergence of what I like to call the Packaging Pushback Club. You know them.

January 31, 2005

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MIT's RFID field probe

The Auto-ID Labs of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, has developed an inexpensive field probe that emulates an RFID tag but yields much more robust information than simple trial-and-error, pass or fail testing.

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Companies

ID Technology has been signed as exclusive national distributor for MASCA Marking and Coding Laser Systems. ID Technology has also added an RFID business unit to its overall operations.

January 31, 2005

Blisters/clamshells/skin packaging

Project Jumpstart: A "bird's" eye view

RFID Antenna exclusive: Cardinal Health shares the ups and downs of the extensive Project Jumpstart pilot test of item- and case-level RFID for pharmaceutical products.

January 31, 2005