We understand that printing barcodes that cannot be scanned can be disastrous.  PPL provides your organisation with a barcode verifying solution that ensures that your barcodes are 100% compliant.  

Barcode verification works on the principle that it is better to scan, test, grade, highlight and fix errors with a barcode as they are printed.    

Avoid compliance problem by using PPL to supply, install and maintain either the Printronix ODV-2, the Honeywell PX940 or the Toshiba TEC Scansure.

Our sales team is on hand to provide advice and support to those customers who are new to barcode verification solutions or to experienced buyers.   

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Benefits of Barcode Verification Printers

A barcode that does not scan correctly can cause serious problems, from manufacturing errors and production downtime to product returns and even fines. A failure to scan can be catastrophic, slowing down lines and causing costly reprints, wasted product, and chargebacks. Barcode verification allows anyone printing or marking codes to help prevent these issues and more. 

Quality Control 

The cost of reprinting and then reshipping corrected batches can be expensive. Verification can alert code producers to printing issues early in production. By monitoring verification results printers can pinpoint a code’s problem areas when quality starts to decline and take corrective action right away. Successful verification ensures that a label or direct part marker is working properly, and that codes will be readable throughout the supply chain. Verification reduces product returns, packaging waste, and other expenses. 

Customer Satisfaction 

Major retailers are known for issuing costly chargebacks and rejecting material that does not meet their standards for barcode readability. Rejected material is a serious expense that can cut into profitability and customer satisfaction. Barcodes that scan correctly don’t incur fines and avoid errors introduced by manual entry. For this reason, barcode verification has become an essential factor in supply chain management. 

Contract and Industry Compliance 

As well as helping to improve code quality, a verifier generates reports to certify the quality of a producer’s codes. This is why an increasing number of regulated industries require that manufactures use barcode verifiers. Reports can be printed or exported to a storage archive to prove compliance with contract and industry requirements. Most verification software will also check that the data within the barcode is formatted according to the application standard for a specific industry. 

Printronix ODV-2D Solution   

The Printronix Auto ODV uses an external verifier attached to the outside of the best-selling Printronix T series barcode thermal label printer which scans, verifies and then records the quality of the barcodes against IISO/IEC and ANSI standards.     

If the machine detects a faulty barcodes then customisable options include either to strike out the barcode or attempt to reprint it up to as many tries of your choosing.  Will work for;

• Ladder Barcode 
• 2D Barcodes 

The advantage of using the Printronix ODV-2 verification system is that you can link it into your own software or use Printronix PrintNet Enterprise Software suite to capture details reports of every grade and barcode printed.  

The Printronix T series printers are robust heavy-duty printers that are designed to cope in industrial environments where dirt and dust may cause issues.    Connections include USB, Network and Wireless is available as an optional extra and can be used as a direct and indirect thermal transfer printer or simply and customers can choose whether to use a 203 / 300 DPI printheads.  

If you already own a Printronix T-6000 or T-8000 series printer then the ODV system can be added retrospectively via an aftermarket field kit.   Please contact our sales team for further information.  

To find out how about how the Printronix ODV-2D and the Printronix T series range of printers then more information can be found here on our product page.

Honeywell PX-940V  

Honeywell PX-940 has an internal verifier attached as a bar inside the printer that scans and verifies barcodes as they are printed.    This rugged barcode thermal printer has a full touch display, universal firmware, ethernet, USB, serial, low power display, Bluetooth and internal rewinder, peel off and label taken sensor.  

The PX940 series takes industrial printing to a new level of accuracy and simplicity by providing customers with error-free precision printing, increasing production efficiency and reducing operational costs.   The family of PX940 high-performance industrial printers with integrated label verification technology produces error-free printing.  Developed for companies that are subjected to fines levied for non-compliance to regulatory standards and returned shipments due to unreadable barcodes, the PX940 series prints barcodes that are defect-free and 100% accurate every time.  The fully integrated verifier allows for quick setting up even when printing and verifying different labels.  With pass/fail and ANSI grades from 1-4, bad labels that do meet an established threshold are voided and a new label is reprinted.   The PX940 printer has print registration of up to +/– 0.3mm (0.012 in.).  The trend towards miniaturization requires printing on smaller and smaller labels.  The PX940 will print accurately on small labels, edge to edge with little error tolerance.  

The PX940 printers are suited for transportation and logistics, pharmecticals and healthcare, shipping and distribution centres, industrial manufacturing, automotive parts suppliers, and applications that are regulated and require high precision and error free-printer.  The printer is available in two versions: one with the integrated verifier, and an option without the integrated verifier.  Both versions are available with standard features such as Bluetooth and smart printing capability, in which users can configure and fine-tune settings without the need for a host computer.   

With a Honeywell firmware platform that supports multiple print languages, the PX940 printer can support a wide range of media- including ink-in and ink-out ribbons with one-inch core size-enabling maximum time between media resupply.  Fast time-to-lable and print speeds of up to 350 mm/s (14 ips) ensure that the PX940 printer can scale with the changing needs of dynamic operations.  

For more information about the Honeywell PX-940 printer then please contact our technical sales team.