Many of us are already familiar with the use of medical labels on tags, bracelets and necklaces to carry medical information – medical ID tags are commonly used by those with allergies for use in emergencies, but there is much more to medical identification bracelets than meets the eye. Medical ID tags, no matter what [...]

Before you decide which type of label you need you are going to have to take a look at your printer and establish what type that is; inkjet or laser printer. Inkjet printers squirt small, high pressure jets of ink onto the paper when printing (hence the name “inkjet”) and this must then be allowed [...]

Personalized wine labels are nothing new as an idea but for many people, how simple and cheap it is to arrange for a personalized label is still something of a mystery! Today, printing wine labels is easy and affordable. There are a wealth of internet sites offering personalization services for wine for special occasions such [...]

Labels are cheap and easy to use as well as keeping our work and personal life organized and user friendly for everyone.  Many label manufacturers have been enjoying the high price mark-up because they have effectively cornered the label market but with the advent of the internet there are now very few barriers to entry [...]

The strict answer is “No!” but the practical answer is “Maybe!” it all depends on what you are subjecting the label to. Typical waterproof labels will be able to resist the effects of water for several days, weeks or indeed permanently depending on the adhesive used and how well it has been applied.  In fact, [...]

The end of the year School Picnic is something that both students and teachers look forward to. The parents supply the picnic and everyone has a great time at Greene Hollows Elementary School. With three legged races and other fun picnic games, it’s a day of old-fashioned fun that has been taking place for years. [...]

Tagging your possessions is something many of us do but we fail to consider the full scale benefit to be derived from making sure our goods and chattels are identifiably ours. Take look at some of the law enforcement statistics regarding lost and stolen property: a tagged item is 37 times more likely to be [...]

Over 90% of pets are tagged in the United States and this is the major reason why so many pets are returned to their owners but there is a starkly contrasting statistic when it comes to our children; less than 2% have some form of identification upon  them! Fortunately, the overwhelmingly vast majority of missing [...]

Radio frequency identification or RFID is the technology that uses radio signals to trak an items location; if you read about a convict being released but compelled to wear an ankle bracelet to track them, the you are looking at a practical example of RFID. RFID has far more constructive uses than just making sure [...]

The use of finger print identification to access a laptop or other electronic device has become an accepted though not widely adopted biometric technology for securing access, particularly to sensitive systems.  Banking applications using fingerprint identification technology have come under increasingly sophisticated attacks by fraudsters and is no longer the secure biometric solution it once [...]