Brother(R) Announces Retail Label and Mobile Printing Solutions at RetailNOW '07 Show.Launching Free Label Printer Developer Kit Promotion with Ingram Micro Ingram Micro, Inc. NYSE: IM a Fortune 100 company founded in 1979 and based in Santa Ana, California. It is the world’s largest technology distributor and a leading technology sales, marketing and logistics company. LAS VEGAS Las Vegas (läs vā`gəs), city (1990 pop. 258,295), seat of Clark co., S Nev.; inc. 1911. It is the largest city in Nevada and the center of one of the fastest-growing urban areas in the United States. -- Brother International Corporation (Brother), a worldwide thermal label printer technology leader, and Ingram Micro Inc.'s Data Capture/POS Division, show their commitment to the retail industry by launching an exciting new promotion at the RetailNOW 2007 show, July 15-18, at the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada (Booth #635). This promotion will involve giving away a complete industrial label printer development kit that includes the Brother QL-1050 & QL-550 Label Printers, label media rolls, and a software development kit - a $500 value* for qualified select developers, resellers and solutions providers. "Brother has a long, successful history of supplying label printing solutions for small, medium and even large retail accounts; and with our industrial label printers, we now have an even more versatile portfolio of products with innovative features for value-added resellers A value-added reseller (VAR) is a company that adds some feature(s) to an existing product(s), then resells it (usually to end-users) as an integrated product or complete "turn-key" solution. and solutions providers," says Ravi Panjwani, Director of Marketing, Brother International Corporation. "We want VARS VARS Value Added Reseller VARS Vehicle Accounting and Reporting System (US Immigration and Naturalization Service) VARS Vertical and Azimuth Reference System VARS Variant Stem VARS Variables and solutions providers to experience these product features for themselves and so we decided to make the investment to give them all the tools they need - including the printers!" Attendees that received a promotional postcard from Brother are eligible. In addition, entrants must have an existing account with Ingram Micro's Data Capture/POS Division; are currently in the business of providing integrated printing solutions to an existing customer base; and meet all other qualifications outlined in the 'Label Printer Developer Kit' rules and regulations. Complete qualifications details will be available at the Brother booth at RetailNOW, and after the show, by contacting Brother Industry Solutions Marketing directly at QL-EvalKit@brother.com. Brother to showcase full selection of retail printing solutions at RetailNOW In addition to the Brother QL line, Brother will showcase two other categories of printers - their Mprint[TM] mobile printers and P-touch[R] Electronic labeling systems - at RetailNOW 07. The Brother MPrint line of wireless mobile printers are among the world's smallest, ultra-portable printers, and feature Bluetooth, IrDA, USB USB in full Universal Serial Bus Type of serial bus that allows peripheral devices (disks, modems, printers, digitizers, data gloves, etc.) to be easily connected to a computer. and serial connectivity options for use in retail operations. "The MPrint printer is truly a technological breakthrough; our engineers have developed a full-featured printer, in a slim and compact form factor, that prints professional-quality receipts, on demand," says Mr. Panjwani. "Conventional mobile printers are bulky, heavy and print on receipts that curl curl In mathematics, a differential operator that can be applied to a vector-valued function (or vector field) in order to measure its degree of local spinning. It consists of a combination of the function's first partial derivatives. . We wanted to give the solutions providers another option for printing applications that require ultimate portability." P-touch[R] electronic labeling systems print professional quality, glossy laminated laminated /lam·i·nat·ed/ (-nat?ed) having, composed of, or arranged in layers or laminae. laminated made up of laminae or thin layers. labels that enhance the customer experience and customer loyalty in a retail environment, with time-savings features that help increase workers' productivity. These laminated labels are used for retail shelf labels, price markdown A price markdown is a deliberate reduction in the selling price of retail merchandise. It is used to increase the velocity (rate of sale) of an article, typically for clearance at the end of a season, or to sell off obsolete merchandise at the end of its life. , UPC (Universal Product Code) The standard bar code printed on retail merchandise, which is administered by GS1 US, Brussels, Belgium and Lawrenceville, NJ (www.gs1.org). bar code product labels, name badges and asset management applications. P-touch labeling systems are available in handheld and desktop models. The portable, hand-held models are ergonomic ergonomic - Concerning ergonomics or exhibitting good ergonimics. , have an integrated display, a built-in keyboard for easy data entry, and a built-in cutter. Some handheld models can even be programmed with an application-specific user interface, and can print from a downloaded database. Commercial P-touch desktop models connect easily to a computer using USB interface and can be shared over a network. The model PT-9500PC prints sharp looking labels at 360dpi resolution and is ideal for pre-printing a strip of easy to peel labels or to print a label on demand. About Brother Brother in Bridgewater is the corporate headquarters for Brother in the Americas, (from Canada to South America South America, fourth largest continent (1991 est. pop. 299,150,000), c.6,880,000 sq mi (17,819,000 sq km), the southern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. ) and has fully integrated sales, manufacturing, marketing, research and development capabilities, located here in the US. In addition to its headquarters in Bridgewater, New Jersey, Brother has branches in California, Illinois, Massachusetts and Tennessee, as well as subsidiaries in Ohio, Canada, Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Mexico. *Estimated retail value |
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