Bar Codes

[Joe Chasan]

On Thu, Jul 29, 2004 at 10:09:14PM -0500, Mike Schwartz-PC Support & Services wrote:
> > > 	If you have the need to print labels in much higher quantity than
> > > the Zebra label printers can do, then I recommend the Toshiba Tec
> > > printers.
> > > They are quite a bit better built and faster than the Sato or Zebra
> > > printers.
> > >
> > > Mike Schwartz
> > 
> > Him Mike,
> > Can you be more explicit? What speed do the Toshiba printers run? How does
> > it compare to SATO. Also, to say they are better built, you must have
> > seen/used both. I'm hard pressed to believe the Toshiba could be better
> > built, but I certainly need to know if that's true. Which model Toshiba
> > compares more favorably than say a SATO 5900RVE?
> > Thanks,
> > John
> 
> Hi John:
> 
> 	I've never personally worked with the Sato 5900RVE model or any
> other Sato label printer.  The last couple of times I needed to select a
> barcode printer, I depended on a couple of experts as well as printer
> comparison reports from the trade rags.
> 
> 	The reports were mostly from "Retail Systems Reseller" magazine.
> The experts were a guy about 3 levels up in tech support at United Parcel
> Service who convinced me to go with Toshiba and a guy over in Minnesota who
> sells and services several brands who also recommended the Toshibas over the
> other brands he repairs.   
> 
> 	As far as I know, UPS is still providing Toshiba printers to all of
> its large scale shippers.  I'd doubt that they would do that if they felt
> they weren't getting the most bang for the buck with Toshiba.
> 
> 	I just did a quickie scan on the 'Net for a price/performance
> comparison, and, looking just at the raw numbers, Toshiba B-752 still wins
> out over the Sato 5900RVE.
> 
> 	Some of the Toshiba printers I have setup are pumping out over
> 50,000 4"x5" labels a day very reliably, so I've been happy with the
> Toshibas.  YMMV, though.  If you feel that the Sato printers are real
> "Cadillacs", or that I'm not seeing some important features, then I'm all
> ears.

i have never used the toshiba's.  we've done a lot of the zebras and
satos - between the 2 of them, sato makes a more industrial strength
product and can handle more volume.  sato's tech support also better
than zebra.  both printer languages work fine with filepro, just takes
a bit of getting used to if you've never done before as most bar code
printers require row,column or similar addressing for each print line
instead of just top-down as most filepro printouts are constructed.

have also tried eltron - junk not worth playing with (i think zebra
owns them now, and a couple people actually got freebies of these when 
one of the national shipping companies setup their customers with these)

for tiny ones, have done some Dymo SE300's with fp - not great but one
of the few cheapos that worked ok with fp.

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-Joe Chasan-                      Magnatech Business Systems, Inc.
joe at magnatechonline.com           Hicksville, NY - USA
http://www.MagnatechOnline.com    Tel.(516) 931-4444/Fax.(516) 931-1264