Lexicon Apprenticeship Program

Filed under: Barcode Printer Repair, Barcode Scanner Business, Barcode Scanner Repair, community, used barcode equipment, Announcements

For the past several years, Lexicon has been working with the Rockdale County Public School System in the Student Apprenticeship Program based in the Rockdale Career Academy. Basically, we've hired students from the local high schools to work at Lexicon and learn the basics of electronics repair, as well as what it is like to be an actual employee at a real company. It's been kind of cool to have a few younger employees! At one point we even had a good chunk of the Rockdale County High School...

Business Failures Provide Fuel for Recovery

Filed under: Barcode Scanner Repair, Barcode Scanner Business, intermec, zebra, Barcode Printer Repair, General Business, symbol, used barcode equipment, bailout, Announcements

With the economic news seeming to grow ever more dire by the day (we read about the "latest" bailout of Citigroup only this morning), it's only human of us to long for something positive on the financial front.  But the bad news just seems to keep coming for banks and financial companies, mortgage lenders and residential builders, and now with a recession looming and consumers cutting back on purchases, retailers of all stripes have really been stung.  Circuit City's bankruptcy filing is only one of the...

Dave Wiedman, Scott Robinson at ScanSource's Impact Now in Orlando

Filed under: Barcode Scanner Business, community, ScanSource, Impact Now, flat rate repair, beer, Announcements

Dave Wiedman, our chief operating officer and Scott Robinson, who leads our Sales Operations function will both be at the Impact Now event that ScanSource is hosting in Orlando next week.   If you are a solution provider or value-added-reseller, you are certainly familiar with ScanSource.  However, if you are a barcode equipment user, you may never have heard of this great company who is a "value-added" distributor of data capture and enterprise mobility equipment (among other specialty technologies). ...

Repair & Maintenance End-of-life for Intermec T2425 in 2009?

Filed under: Barcode Scanner Repair, Barcode Scanner Business, intermec, Announcements

We're starting to hear from various people in the barcode equipment business that the Intermec T2425, aka the Intermec "Trakker" or "Antares" portable barcode scanner will no longer be serviced by the manufacturer after the end of this year.  We have also heard that this "service end-of-life" will extend to some other members of the same Intermec product family including the Intermec T2410, Intermec T2415, Intermec T2420, Intermec T2455, Intermec T2480, Intermec T2485, and Intermec T2486.

These...

US Open relies on Symbol SPT1846 handheld terminal

Filed under: Barcode Scanner Business, Barcode Scanner Repair, Announcements

Summers’ end means Labor Day, cookouts, back-to-school and the US Open at the Billy Jean King National Tennis Center in Flushing Meadows, NY. One of the four majors in tennis, sponsored by the United States Tennis Association (the USTA), the US Open is the world’s largest sporting event by attendance.

My wife is a huge fan as well as an enthusiastic recreational tennis player (and USTA member). It’s one of her missions in life to get to all the majors. In addition to the US Open,...