Facing regulations geared toward tracking products through distribution and use, medical device and pharmaceutical manufacturers might struggle to fit all the necessary information onto the necessarily small label. At PACK EXPO Las Vegas, Toshiba America Business Solutions debuted a thermal barcode printer that not only prints at resolutions high enough to handle small printing but eliminates media shift as well, enabling higher precision in label printing.
Toshiba’s B-EX4T3HS prints 600 dpi at speeds up to 6 in/s. High accuracy—on labels as small as 0.51 x 0.12 in—is achieved with the use of center alignment, which eliminates media shifts to ensure consistently accurate placement of barcode data on small labels. These capabilities will enable manufacturers to print specialized labels in-house, thereby lowering the cost and maintaining better control of compliance issues.
