SATO CT410 Receives Distinction as Product of the Year by Polish Health Magazine Wroclaw, 25 May, 2005 – Readers of the Polish health magazine, Nationwide Medical Review (Ogólnopolski Przegląd Medyczny) have voted SATO’s CT410 barcode printer as a Product of the Year 2004. The votes were collected through an Internet-based questionnaire posted throughout the whole year of 2004. Voters comprised readers of the Medical Review, who are mainly professionals working in hospitals or clinics in the healthcare sector, and who are existing and potential users of the nominated products. Other award winners were medical products, for example, PENDRA – a non-invasive device for constant glucose level monitoring. SATO’s CT410 printer was the only Automatic Identification product chosen by OPM readers. The CT400 Series printer is a desktop-based sterile barcode printer, which comes with an antibacterial cover made of special antiseptic material that doesn’t change its characteristics during long-term usage. The CT400 prints using either direct thermal or thermal transfer technology at a print quality of 203dpi or 305dpi and print speed of 150mm/sec or 100mm/sec respectively. It is also classified as a semi-industrial printer as it can print a few thousand labels per day. The SATO CT400 printer is an ideal solution for labelling blood samples in laboratories, both in hospitals and in sanitary-epidemiological centres. It performs well in a medical centre for the labelling of medical equipment, and for the printing of prescriptions and pharmacy stock control documents. It is also recommended for the printing of wristbands for patient identification. Wristbands enable patient movement tracking within the clinic and help to eradicate mistakes in drug administration or blood transfusions. Patient identification helps also to monitor treatment regimes and precisely track treatment costs. As a part of a hospital management system, the CT400 helps in financial and overall hospital management, especially in meeting ISO requirements

SATO FlagTagSolutions™ also Support New RFID Gen2 Pallet-Labelling Technology Brussels, 24 June 2005 – SATO, the world’s leading manufacturer of label and barcode printers and a specialist in data collection systems (DCS) and radio frequency identification (RFID), also supports the latest RFID Generation 2 with their advanced FlagTagSolutions™. Within the scope of its broad-based RFID initiative, METRO Group has set itself the objective of having RFID Gen2 technology in place at its largest 100 suppliers by the end of 2005, from pallet level down to case level (outer packaging). RFID Gen2 chips have a 96 bit UID memory capacity, may be read more quickly, and feature a “kill order” option to delete sensitive data, as well as password protection. For sub-suppliers already working with RFID Generation 1 tags, a switch to the new Generation 2 further down the line could not be easier. All it takes is a simple software upgrade for their read-write units to enable the SATO RFID printers to process the new RFID Gen2 chips. For both transponders, the SATO FlagTagSolutions™ are the key to universal pallet tagging. SATO’s FlagTag technology owes its particularly good readability to the special architecture, whereby the RFID antenna protrudes vertically like a flag from the actual surface of the label. This is what makes SATO FlagTag technology a universal solution – even when the packing is of metal or contains fluids, both of which impair readability substantially for every kind of RFID chip, Gen1 or Gen2. SATO’s FlagTagSolutions™ assure optimum readability of the RFID chip at all times, no matter what the pallet may contain. SATO offers its future-proof FlagTagSolutions™ in three variants to cater for every RFID labelling need: 1) Automatic Print & Apply: This is the fully- automatic SATO FlagTag applicator, which is alternatively available as a dual-purpose applicator for parallel labelling with modern RFID and traditional barcode labels. 2) Semi-automatic Slap & Ship: With this process for medium volume RFID pallet labelling, the UHF-RFID FlagTag is pre-folded automatically and then applied by hand. 3) Manual Slap & Ship: The FlagTag label that is dispensed by the SATO CL408e UHF-RFID printer contains a double perforation, especially suitable to be folded and applied manually. Irrespective of the material to be labelled – whether packaging or pallets, metal drums or fluids – the FlagTag developed by SATO in collaboration with UPM Rafsec always makes for optimum readability. What is more, all of these SATO’s FlagTagSolutions™ are fully future-proof: Any supplier currently using a SATO RFID Gen1 solution can switch to RFID Gen2 tags at any time, whenever necessary or requested by METRO. Thanks to the open architecture of the SATO printers and print modules, this evolution may be done with a minimum of effort via a simple software update.

SINGAPORE - October 22, 2004 - SATO International Pte Ltd (SI), a holding company for SATO Corporation''s overseas sales offices, today announced that SATO''s proprietary software, Label Gallery, has officially passed the Designed for Microsoft® Windows® XP logo compliance test and has signed a Logo License Agreement with Microsoft®.

Allan Dabscheck, a Director of Austab Barcode Systems Pty Ltd was recently inducted into the LATMA (Label and Tag Manufacturers Association) Hall of Fame for his years of support and contribution to the Australia-wide organisation.

Allan is one of the founding members of LATMA Australia dating back to 1991, when the individual states got together and established the National organisation.
 

The National committee, members and his peers, honoured Allan with this rare and prestigious induction.

Allan is the youngest person as yet inducted into the LATMA Hall of Fame, which began honouring its members at the 1995 conference.

Allan was nominated in recognition for his unselfish work with constitutional matters, assisting in the creation of the Pressure Sensitive Industry Standards, and producing the Glossary of Terms for the Industry, thus making a significant contribution to the Australian labelling industry.

The Induction was announced to members at the LATMA Australia National Conference 2003, held in Melbourne 27-30th March. Taken unawares, Allan was quite emotional when the announcement was made at the inaugural dinner, but after a while he managed to deliver a moving speech to the members, both thanking them for the honour, as well as encouraging members to participate in the ‘running’ of LATMA.

As one of the now elders of the labelling industry with more than forty years experience as a label converter and printer, Allan has lectured at RMIT, advised on curriculum and apprenticeship matters, and is a member of the Standards Australia sub-committee for Pressure Sensitive Papers and Labels. He had also been previously inducted into the Victorian Printing Industry Hall of Fame in 2000.

Allan is also a past president of both LATMA Victoria and Australia, and has recently agreed to oversee the up-date of The Glossary of Terms he first produced in 1998.

All of us at Austab Barcode Systems are proud of Allan’s achievements and to have him as a valuable and respected member of our team.
 

11/07/2005 SATO CT410 Receives Distinction as Product of the Year by Polish Health Magazine 11/07/2005 SATO RFID FlagTagSolutions™ also Support New RFID Gen2 Pallet-Labelling Technology