Industry Lead Times As the global pandemic continues, the pressure-sensitive label industry has experienced a massive increase in demand. This demand increase combined with supply chain issues has had rippling effects throughout our industry. This page is dedicated to providing the most up-to-minute updates in the label [...]
How to Make a Barcode Inventory System for a Small Business At Smith Corona, we have built our business around the barcode. Without it, the label industry wouldn't have experienced the growth that it has over the past 20 years. It's easy to forget that some businesses [...]
Millennials' Eating Habits are Revolutionizing Food Logistics Millennials are changing their eating habits, and the market is rapidly evolving to keep up with all 75 million of them. Whether it be what foods they prefer or how they shop, the marketplace is drastically changing to meet new [...]
Paper Mills Have the Power....To Finally Increase Prices The advent of the Internet has revolutionized many industries in the past 20 years, and maybe none more so than the paper industry. As the Internet and digital publications have grown, consumers began to gravitate away from newspapers and [...]
How China is Killing Another American Industry It’s no secret. Our President is obsessed with it. Chinese companies are taking American manufacturing jobs. The trade deficit is real and it is crippling the United States. The gap between goods imported from China to the United States and [...]
How China Plant Closures Are Affecting The Label & Receipt Industry Well, it might be closer to reality than you might expect. The key chemical component utilized in the receipt paper is about to become low in supply and high on demand. This shortage is expected to [...]
Applying Labels In The Cold If you’ve ever attempted to apply thermal labels in a cold environment, you’ve probably run into problems with ink smearing and labels not sticking properly. This could be caused by a myriad of problems, ranging from poor application to using the wrong [...]
