We, at Thunderbird, are excited to present to our customers the Sato Line of printers and print engines. While we have serviced the Sato printers since our beginning, we are now a Sato Partner. Sato Printers have come a long way since the early days of Thunderbird Technical Services, Inc. These printers were highly technical […]
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Saving Costs on Labels and Ribbons
Saving costs on labels and ribbons for your barcode printer can help keep business expenses under control. Label and ribbon expenses can soar to the point of breaking your budget. Incorrect data, software settings, incorrect configurations and improperly loaded labels and ribbons contribute to the cost of running your business. The truth is that largest cause […]
Zebra 170xi4 ‘Paper Out’ and ‘Ribbon Out’ errors
Zebra 170xi4 doesn’t work after calibration. Zebra Technologies denies any significant change to their firmware regarding the calibration procedure for the Z-170xi4. But if you follow Thunderbird Technical Services’ video on xi4 series calibration you may find the printer will ‘flatline’ on the sensor profile after performing the calibration. Furthermore, the printer will elicit a ‘paper […]
A Smartphone Initiative Reveals Where Supermarket Produce Comes From
Each time we put up a blog post about barcodes, we really think that we have seen it all, but barcode technology always seems to have tricks up its sleeve. Well, we shouldn’t call them tricks; they’re more like vast reservoirs of untapped technological potential. There are many ingenious people out there trying […]
Using Barcodes to Catalog Every Single Species on Earth
When it comes to barcodes, we want you to think big. Barcodes on packages or in the grocery store are just not big enough, which is a shame because barcodes do a lot more than simply process goods and services (although those things are important too!). You can wrap your mind around a bigger […]
Barcodes Helping the Elderly Battle Loneliness
Barcodes are not just the thing that the cashier scans when you cash out at the grocery store or some other retail chain; they are instruments that make life easier and more orderly for all of us, and recent advancements in barcode technology suggests that they may even save lives, especially for the elderly […]
Barcodes Preserve the Potency of Healthcare Packaging
In our blog, we have discussed the many benefits of barcodes and what industries they are playing a major role in and, in some instances, completely revolutionizing. A few such sectors are the healthcare industry and the food & beverage industries where barcodes are making it easier to keep track and transport goods, services, […]
Weight Loss through Bar Codes
In the past, dieting was a tough process, and not just because of taunting baked good isles in the supermarket. Tracking your weight loss was difficult, timely, and felt like a second job. Remembering the foods you consumed for breakfast, lunch, and dinner was trying a recipe for disaster. Giving in to that row […]
Upgrading Hospitals with Barcode Technology
Technology has had both negative and positive effects on the modern world. Focusing on the positives, technology has caused for innovations in social connection, science, and medicine. It has allowed for greater accuracy in quantitative measurements and progression in communication. Barcodes have not been missed in this future movement of technology. Links between barcodes […]
How to Save Time in the Checkout Line
We’ve all been there: holding up a line of impatient customers as we try to find the barcode on a cumbersome product. But did you know that you may actually be wasting your time by trying to scan the exact area where the barcode is located? If you’re swiping a product and it isn’t being […]
