Spring Cleaning: 5 Tips for Organizing Your Office

Whether you’re working at the kitchen table in your home, or you’re logging your work hours in a cubicle, staying organized can be a big challenge. The aesthetics of a messy, cluttered desk aren’t ide

Keller ISD and System ID Create Wireless Solution for Digital Education

Keller ISD partnered with System ID, Motorola, and SAFARI Montage to create a wireless solution that streams high-quality video and other multimedia resources to the classroom. Teachers and students a

5 Ways to Use QR Codes

A Quick Response code, or QR code, is the next generation of barcodes. Those little jumbled squares were originally designed to track cars through the manufacturing process, but today, quick respon

Sony Headphones Giveaway Winner!

We're happy to announce that Michael Wade is the winner of Friday's Sony headphones giveaway! Thanks to everyone that left a comment and got a great dialogue going. Stop by on Tuesday, 5.3, to learn

Friday Free-Day Giveaway: Sony Headphones

Recently, Steve Sheridan of Dean Lewis Associates responded to an email to share the best business advice he’s received. Steve says, “I have heard is that 30% of consumers use price as their top pri

SEO for Small Business Websites

Interested in search engine optimization, but not sure where to start? Today's post from guest author and SEO expert, David Wallace, will help you understand the basics of using SEO for small busine

Earth Day Giveaway Winner!

Congratulations to Heidi for scoring an XTG solar charger! Heidi shared this easy go-green tip from another blog: "Print your marketing materials on recycled paper. Whether you’re going to send out fl

SEO for Small Business Cheat Sheet

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Boost Your “Greenablity” | Eco-Friendly Tips for Small Businesses

Did you know that the average office worker consumers nearly 10,000 sheets of paper each year? That’s equivalent to the amount of paper produced from one tree. You don’t have to be a mathematician t

Despite Industry Wide Price Increases, Black Tie Pricing Stays the Same

This past year has seen quite a few supplies price increases due to rising material costs. System ID was notified by Zebra that once again they must increase prices on most stock items. On May 2, 2011

5 Things To Consider Before Selecting a Custom Barcode Label

You know you need barcode labels, but you’re not seeing what you need in the list of stocked labels. Perhaps you have a special size or shape in mind. Maybe you need a colored logo or graphic printed

UL Labels

UL (Underwriters Laboratory) is an independent, nonprofit product compliance standards and testing organization. It was established in 1903 by insurance companies. They wanted to make sure that produc

10 Mobile Apps Guarenteed To Simplify Tax Season

Preparing for the tax season is a year long process that leaves little room for organizational error.  While it may be too late to help with this year’s tax submissions, it’s never too early to star

Did You Know?

Factoids on barcodes, the industry, and barcode equipment so you can impress your boss and coworkers with your vast knowledge! Aztec barcodes don't require a quiet zone around it, which means is can

How to Clean Your Printer

The first three parts of this series told you how to load media and how to improve your print quality. So you’ve been chugging along, printing great barcode labels, improving productivity, and all is

CSI? More Like CSLie!

I am coming to grips with the fact that I am a barcode nerd. The strongest evidence of this is that I get a little excited when I see barcode technology being used in a movie or TV show that I’m watch

How to Improve Print Quality

In the first two parts of this series, you learned how to load labels and ribbon. You are all set to print! You eagerly rush to print your first barcode labels, but as they come out of the printer, so

How to Load Ribbons in a Barcode Printer

You learned in our first post of this series how to load labels into your barcode printer. Now, if you are using thermal transfer labels, you will need to load a ribbon, too. If you are using direct

How to Load Labels in a Barcode Printer

Dear readers, you are in for a treat! We are going to create How To series for each of the major barcode equipment and software types. Our aim is to make it even easier for you to pick our barcoding b

Automated Asset Tracking & the City of Dallas

We’re big believers in using software to solve problems – like keeping an accurate record of your inventory on-hand, or tracking the location of your business’s assets. Because, after all, we’ve got b

Twitter Tactics: How to Use Twitter for Small Business!

There’s no denying it: Twitter is a social media platform you and your small business should not ignore. With nearly 200 million users to date, more and more small businesses are using Twitter as a

Going Up? 5 Reasons SMBs are Looking to Cloud Computing

Cloud computing has been an industry buzzword for some time, and rightly so—cloud computing is a smart option for any small business. In fact, the number of small businesses using cloud computing is

System ID Celebrates 25 Years

“I feel the need...the need for speed!” The year was 1986, and what a year it was. Top Gun was tearing up the big screen, while “The Cosby Show” was king of the small; gas was $0.89 a gallon and Syste

Black Tie Now Has More To Offer!

5” Outer Diameter Stock Labels Now Available From Black Tie! Black Tie expanded their product offering to include the commonly used stock label sizes in a 5” Outer Diameter (OD) roll, which can be u

What To Do When Barcode Equipment Fails

We’ve all been there. You’re using your barcode equipment, it is working fine, and then BANG!  It stops working. Whether it was dropped, run-over, or just stopped working, you are in the same boat. Yo

Big Changes for Popular Honeywell Barcode Scanner

Ok, so we have some good news and some bad news; which do you want first? Let’s pretend that while writing this, I hear the collective voice of our readers say, “We want the bad news first.” Ask and y

6 Ways To Keep Productivity Up When Temperatures Are Down

This winter has been far from mild, and as a result, most of us have spent some time being snow (or ice) bound. Unfortunately, weather like that doesn't typically add up to record levels of productivi

Why Excel Is Bad For Inventory Tracking

No one can dispute Excel’s standing at the No. 1 spreadsheet application available today, or for the last 20 years. While not the first such program on the market, its wide availability and familiar

System ID and Aruba offer Wireless Network Solutions

System ID has partnered with Aruba Networks to offer wireless network solutions for small to enterprise companies. System ID has decades of experience providing AIDC equipment from the top barcode har