Lexicon Technologies® Newshttp://www.lexicontech.com/blog/IT Equipment Repair for the Enterprisehttp://www.lexicontech.com/blog/enhourly1Wed, 22 Jun 2011 04:00:00 GMTLexicon Supports MDI Business Mission with Zebra Printer Donationhttp://www.lexicontech.com/blog/index.php/2011/06/22/lexicon-helps-company-with-a-great-mission-impact-the-lives-of-people-with-disabilities/Wed, 22 Jun 2011 04:00:00 GMTjclarkhttp://www.lexicontech.com/blog/article.aspx?id=44

We recently got a call from Minnesota Diversified Industries (MDI) regarding Lexicon's used/refurbished barcode label printers. They wanted to replace one of the Zebra printers in their St Paul facility; they use Zebra thermal transfer printers to produce customer specific labels as well as to print shipping and barcode labels for their US Postal Service packaging and fulfillment operation.  They're pretty good at it, too -- read how they recently produced and shipped postal tote number 75,000,000 to the Postal Service on their site here!

MDI is a Non-Profit Enterprise employing people with disabilities while delivering high quality products & services to business customers.  In addition to providing MDI-specific job opportunities and vocational support, they offer programs and services to adults with disabilities; they also assist individuals to prepare for and obtain jobs in the community. They are able to do this by partnering with various businesses and providing services tailored to each customer's unique requirements.

Mitch Rogers, a Lexicon Business Development team member, worked with MDI to ensure that we could support their printer spec requirements.  After some successful testing, we determined that a fully refurbished Zebra 140xiIII would meet their needs to a "T".  As we learned more about and reflected on MDI's mission, Lexicon decided to donate the Zebra printer to MDI out of admiration and support for the good work that they are doing.

The Lexicon team was able to fill the order in about a week and Mitch reports that the "printer is working wonderfully” for their operation.  Read their blog entry about Lexicon's donation here.

We believe that it's the important to support good works in our communities, and MDI is an organization that inspires us with their special mission.

]]>Consider Quality Remanufactured Equipmenthttp://www.lexicontech.com/blog/index.php/2010/05/28/consider-quality-remanufactured-product-when-y/Fri, 28 May 2010 20:14:32 GMTjclarkhttp://www.lexicontech.com/blog/article.aspx?id=39Our IT Team was searching CDW's site one day last week for some office computing products and noticed the retail availability of "remanufactured" HP and Brother printers.  Do a Google search for "remanufactured" and check out HP's Renew Program (linked here) which pretty succinctly points out the benefits of purchasing and using quality used and refurbished information technology equipment -- I'll summarize in my own words:  "looks and works like new, carries a warranty, and the big one:  saves you money".  At Lexicon we've been providing quality used and refurbished data capture and related equipment for years, but this part of our business has a really positive growth trajectory just now I think, because of the superior value that our customers get immediately from refurbed equipment.  Much shorter payback period, faster implementation of proven technology, no operator retraining (another savings) -- all adding up to a smaller investment, lower risk decision.

Seeing leading technology companies like Hewlett Packard and CDW making significant commitments to the "remanufactured" technology equipment business is another validation, in our view, of the viability of used equipment as a solution for enterprise and business-level customers.  As this is written, Lexicon has large volumes of Zebra, Intermec, and O'Neil thermal transfer printers in stock which our team has beautifully refurbished (most of them look brand new), as well as Motorola or Symbol portable or mobile terminals (MC9060, MC5040, and more).  Intermec CK handheld devices as well.

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