Maintain Proven Symbol, Intermec, HHP Mobile Computers in Tough Business Climate

Filed under: Barcode Scanner Repair, intermec, symbol, HHP, economic crisis, Announcements

This quote from a breaking news piece on Microsoft's big layoff announcement (5000 jobs cut) in today's New York Times, but it could be from about any day over the last quarter or so:

". . . Blaming market uncertainty, Microsoft declined to issue a revenue or earnings forecast for the rest of its fiscal year.

'We are planning for economic uncertainty to continue through the remainder of the fiscal year, almost certainly leading to lower revenue and earnings for the second half relative to the previous...

Make your existing Symbol, Intermec gear work longer for you

Filed under: intermec, symbol, used barcode equipment, Announcements

If you're in a decision-making role in your company in this economic environment, you are looking for ways to conserve cash,  and reduce (or eliminate) capital purchases that aren't absolutely mandatory.  Everyone is being forced to revisit and review operations, supply contracts, headcount -- you name it -- in order to be as strong as possible as we head into what everyone seems to think will be, at best, a bad recessionary period.  I even heard today that the NFL, the most successful sports league...

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...

Now Use 'RepairEngine®' to Manage Barcode & Enterprise Mobile Assets

Filed under: Barcode Scanner Repair, intermec, Barcode Printer Repair, symbol, repair engine, Announcements

Alright, this is a big day at Lexicon because we're now "live" with the release of the latest version of RepairEngine®, our online Service Management System. You can read more details in the press release.

The big news in this release is the addition of Asset Management for barcode and enterprise mobility equipment. Symbol scanners & pdts, Zebra printers, Intermec data collectors or printers -- you name it -- if it's enterprise mobility gear (and probably even if it's not -- more on that idea in the...

Uncertain Economy Spikes Demand for Used Symbol, Used Intermec, Used Zebra Equipment

Filed under: General Business, intermec, symbol, used barcode equipment, zebra, Announcements

Since we're in the business of providing repair and maintenance for Symbol, Intermec and Zebra equipment and we also sell a fair amount of popular legacy barcode equipment (which is a nice way of saying we sell a lot of used Symbol, used Intermec, and used Zebra gear), we're in a position to observe trends in current and future barcode & mobility equipment usage. Over the last sixty days or so, we've seen an upswing in customer inquiries and orders for devices like the Zebra 140xiIII,...

Zebra Printer, Intermec Printer Service Strategy Part 2: When Return-to-Depot Makes Sense

Filed under: intermec, zebra, Barcode Printer Repair, Announcements

Last week we posted about when it can make really good sense to rely on an onsite maintenance contract to support Zebra barcode printers or similar Intermec, Datamax or Sato models.  Our recommendation, perhaps surprisingly to some, tilted heavily (sorry) in favor of making the support strategy call based on the weight of the label printer.

Fortunately, for the sake of economy (which means there is an opportunity for you to save your organization some maintenance budget money here) the reverse is also...

Hardware Repair Strategy Thoughts for Zebra Printer Service, Intermec Printer Service - Part 1

Filed under: Uncategorized, intermec, zebra, Barcode Printer Repair, Announcements

"This has gotta be an easy call.  I can either call a technician to come on-site to repair my Zebra 170xiIII (or my Intermec 3400, or whatever) or I'll bubble-wrap it in a double-walled corrugated box and ship it to a repair depot . . ."  Piece-of-cake.

Maybe.  We frequently get asked by clients who use our barcode scanners and portable data terminals repair center to support their (Symbol scanner or Intermec scanner and printer devices, typically) about whether we can also repair their barcode label...

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...