Label Printer allows various in-house color applications.

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Utilizing thermal-transfer technology, digital, tabletop QLS-8100 Xe instantly prints full-color labels, tags, pouches, and signs up to 8.3 in. wide at print speeds of up to 5 ips. Unit prints items up to 60 in. long directly from PC and requires no plates or make-ready materials. All data is processed by embedded microcontroller, allowing printer to print variable information labels in true production speed and volume.


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QLS-8100 XE Full-Color Eight Inch Label Printer Widens Applications for In-House Labeling

The QuickLabel Systems Division of Astro-Med Inc. has introduced a new full-color, digital label, tag, sign, and pouch printer for in-house use. The QLS-8100 Xe prints full-color labels up to 8.3 inches in width, an industry first, at print speeds of up to 5 inches per second. The QLS-8100 Xe, which may be used for small or large quantities, prints directly from a PC and requires no plates or other make-ready materials. Manufacturers and distributors of large products can use the QLS-8100 Xe to instantly print labels, tags, and other flexible packaging with full-color variable information, in sizes up to 8.3 inches wide x 60 inches long, large enough to accommodate most large-sized products and product containers. Previously, full color labels this size have only been available from commercial printhouses. "Products are not limited to 5 inches wide, and now neither are instant product labels," said Eric Pizzuti, QuickLabel Systems National Sales Manager. "Manufacturers and distributors who use wide label printers to produce pallet labels will be delighted to see they can now apply the same instant label printing convenience to wide, full-color display labels." Utilizing QuickLabel Systems thermal transfer technology, the QLS-8100 Xe tabletop, full-color digital printer instantly produces finished labels, tags, and flexible packages at speeds of up to 5 inches per second. All data is processed extremely rapidly by a high-end embedded microcontroller, giving the printer the capacity to instantly print variable information labels in true production speed and volume with photorealistic graphics, illustrations, text, barcodes, and database-linked information. The QLS-8100 Xe printer also offers users the ability to increase throughput of narrow labels by printing narrow formats side-by-side, or "multiple up". These labels can then be cut into separate rolls by a label slitter that can be married to the printer. In addition to standard paper and synthetic labels, the QLS-8100 Xe is able to print on popular packaging films such as polystyrene shrink sleeve, polyethylene foils, Tyvek pouches and lidding, and others used with food, beverage, and medical device products. Applications for the QLS-8100 Xe include private labeling, product display labels tailored for retailer formats and export languages, secondary packaging customized to retail outlet and distributor branding requirements, color coding for medical instruments and pharmaceuticals, and color coding for industrial product tracking. The QLS-8100 Xe is the latest addition to QuickLabel's new Xe line of tabletop, full color label printers with rapid on-board information processing, large on-board memory, enhanced RibbonRation® system, and Ethernet connectivity. The QLS-4100 Xe, QuickLabel's high speed digital printer capable of producing full color labels, tags and film up to 5 inches in width, was first introduced in the fall of 2002. QuickLabel's complete product line includes the QLS-3000 and QLS-2000 series of multi-color digital label printers, Color QuickLabel 99 Pro(TM) advanced label design software, thermal transfer printing ribbons, label and tag materials, barcode printers, label applicators, and print-and-apply systems. More information about the QLS-8100 Xe digital color label printer is available without cost from QuickLabel Systems West Warwick, R.I. 02893. Phone Toll-Free 877-757-7978, Fax 401-822-2430, e-mail info@quicklabelsystems.com, or visit our website at www.QuickLabelSystems.com.

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