Farms, Medical Field Use Price Guns

As the weather continues to warm with the breaking of Spring, many farms are gearing up for another busy season. A popular way for farms to mark their cases of produce with the PLU number is by using price guns. It’s common for the farm to have a custom printed price label with their name imprinted on the label. Also, having a label to mark a date with a pre-print reading Best If Sold By is very common as well. A general purpose adhesive will typically work for most applications, however, there are cases which will need a permanent adhesive price label.

Farms use all variety of label guns from many different manufacturers. The popular Monarch 1136along with Monarch 1136 labels allow for the grower to put multiple lines of information on the label. Farms use the one line Primark P-14 pricing guns, Garvey 22-8, Monarch 1131, and Towa price guns. Popular two line options are Towa pricing guns,XL-Pro pricing guns, Garvey 22-88, and Meto pricing guns. You can view and purchase all the label guns listed as well as the Monarch labels, Garvey labels, and Meto labels to go along with the hand held labeling gun at our website.

Pricing guns are offered with a variety of different band options. A band option is the configuration of the characters that the print head of the gun will mark on the pricing label. A date and time coding band option is popular for identifying food, receivables, and medical supplies. This blog post will focus on the medical industry.

Medical labs use hand held labelers to label bottles and packages that can contain an infinite number of contents. Vials of blood, physical body parts, chemicals, and sterilized or non sterilized instruments are just a few examples of items that need coded and identified. The storage of items in medical labs can often be in freezers or extreme environments. Freezer and permanent grade adhesives are sometime necessary to insure the label will adhere and remain on the item. Custom price labels are very popular with medical applications. Preprinted wording and/or symbols help to classify the item. Then the user prints the date and time code to easily identify the item.

Some of our popular one line date/time hand held pricing guns are the Paxar Monarch 1131 with the 04 band option, the Garvey 22-8 with the 1808 band option, and the Meto 2600 series gun model 10.26 with the date/time band. Two and three line pricing guns tend to be very popular guns in the medical field due to the need of printing more information on the label. The most popular two line gun for marking a date and time code is the Monarch 1136 with the 04 band option. This gun is sometimes called the Monarch Paxar 1136. It’s the same gun; Paxar used to own the Monarch brand. There are many other options from the brands listed above as well as brands such as XL Pro, Sato and Towa price guns that work very well in the majority of medical applications.

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