Tool Supplier Cuts Printing Time From 15 Minutes To A Few Seconds
A supplier of auto aftermarket tools was stuck in a time warp. Its high volume label printing was hobbled by a process that took up to 15 minutes to print the first label in a run. For a company that does 3.2 million labels a year that was clearly an unacceptable situation. Despite the fact that the division was using LABELVIEW from TEKLYNX, an industrial-level label design and printing software package, the system configuration did not allow the performance required. A division manager with responsibilities for ERP integration contacted TEKLYNX to see what could be done. That's when he was put in touch with Scott Strand of Coridian Technologies, Inc., a Minneapolis-based TEKLYNX systems integrator, who worked to redesign the system. The division now produces first-out labels in about 3 to 7 seconds.