Lexicon Supports MDI Business Mission with Zebra Printer Donation

Filed under: barcode equipment, causes, refurbished, zebra, Announcements

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...

Consider Quality Remanufactured Equipment

Filed under: intermec, zebra, symbol, used barcode equipment, enterprise mobility equipment, refurbished, remanufactured, Announcements

Our 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...

We're Expanding Conyers Repair Facility

Filed under: Uncategorized, Barcode Scanner Repair, intermec, zebra, Barcode Printer Repair, symbol, NCR, Hewlett-Packard, repair facility, Announcements

We haven't blogged in a while -- we promise to do better -- but we've been really busy to start 2010.  Over the next few weeks we promise you'll hear about several major new initiatives all designed to make Lexicon's unique brand of IT hardware repair & maintenance -- driven by our web-based service management system, RepairEngine®, more accessible and more capable to deliver even more services to more enterprise technology users than ever.  So watch this space for major announcements in the next...

The Barcode Turns 57 (And Is Still Going Strong)

Filed under: barcode, enterprise mobility equipment, HHP, intermec, symbol, zebra, Announcements

Fifty-seven years ago, on October 7, 1952, the US Patent Office issued a patent to two American inventors (Norman Joseph Woodland and Bernard Silver) for a bulls-eye shaped barcode (yes, even though their symbol was "round" - we now refer to it as the first "bar" code) and a scanning apparatus designed to interpret the bulls-eye pattern. Silver and Woodland started as grad students at the Drexel Institute of Technology (now Drexel University), to work on a problem that was brought to...

RepairEngine® -- Perfect App for SaaS Architecture

Filed under: intermec, zebra, symbol, HHP, barcode equipment, enterprise mobility equipment, Announcements

We saw an interesting Channelweb article yesterday focused on the growing adoption by mid-size companies of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications to meet certain specific business needs and reduce their software licensing costs.  Applications like email, CRM, business intelligence, patch management, anti-virus, and spyware may readily lend themselves to the cloud computing environment because of their non-core nature and the necessity that these apps typically have to connect beyond the corporate IT...

Summer's End - Can't Wait for Fall, College Football, and More Good RepairEngine® Stuff!

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

All right -- the last day of August. Everyone knows what that means - just a few more days until: "Toe Meets Leather!" (credit to the late, great Al Ciraldo). Yeah -- bring it on! Spirits are soaring, the juices are starting to surge and of course, everybody is still undefeated so all things are possible, especially in the minds of younger fans. We've got them of all ages at Lexicon and like most places our loyalties (as represented by Lexicon team members) are spread far and wide. ...

RepairEngine® Celebrates Its 6th Birthday!

Filed under: barcode equipment, enterprise mobility equipment, intermec, repair engine, symbol, zebra, Announcements

RepairEngine®, the revolutionary Repair Management System that delivers a "better repair experience" for barcode and enterprise mobility equipment users, is celebrating its 6th birthday this July. RepairEngine's® development team has been working to continuously enhance the system over the years by incorporating innovative features such as Dashboard and the "Grid" System seamlessly into RepairEngine®. We want to make RepairEngine® THE tool to use when managing the...

Check Out the New RepairEngine® 'Dashboard' Screencast

Filed under: Announcements, intermec, repair engine, symbol, zebra

Yesterday our development team completed the screencast for RepairEngine's® new Dashboard feature, which is currently being beta-tested by about 170 users. We're planning to make ALL of the new enhancements (which include new and better automated email notifications, powerful Repair Authorization Status tracking and management improvements, redesigned and enhanced Rapid Estimate Approval features, as well as the Dashboard) live for all users this weekend.

Let us know what you think --...

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...

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,...