Intermec's Fingerprint Bar Code Printer Language Celebrates 10-Year Anniversary.Business Editors/Technology Writers EVERETT, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 14, 2001 The Software That Launched "Intelligent" Bar Code Printing Now Offers New Hosts of Benefits for 21st Century Printing You know how it goes when you get a group of experts in one room. You start with one goal in mind and end up with something completely different. So it isn't surprising that when Intermec printer and software experts set out a decade ago to create a new printer command language Printer Command Language, more commonly referred to as PCL, is a Page description language (PDL) developed by HP as a printer protocol and has become a de facto industry standard. , they decided instead to create a revolutionary new way to control bar code printers altogether, an innovation they named Fingerprint(TM). Fingerprint, the Intermec BASIC language that this year celebrates its 10th anniversary, is more like a programming tool than a static printer command protocol. A bar code label printer equipped with Fingerprint is a computer that prints. The highly adaptable software programming language allows companies to manage bar code data with exceptional ease. It controls not only the label printer, but also applications, allowing seamless information exchanges with a company's host system and making it possible to customize any type of printer function. Intermec Fingerprint printers can control equipment such as applicators, scales, conveyor belt conveyor belt One of various devices that provide mechanized movement of material, as in a factory. Conveyor belts are used in industrial applications and also on large farms, in warehousing and freight-handling, and in movement of raw materials. signals and more, can customize printer display and keyboard functions for easy operator input and interaction, and can customize data input and output for a myriad of interfaces without reprogramming Reprogramming refers to erasure and remodeling of epigenetic marks, such as DNA methylation, during mammalian development[1]. After fertilization some cells of the newly formed embryo migrate to the germinal ridge and will eventually become the germ cells host systems. They can integrate bar code labeling requirements into a company's processes without major system changes, and accomplish it all with less hardware and middleware than typical systems. Printers can be interactive devices programmed to provide sound prompts for different activities or to automate tasks to aid job performance for people with disabilities. With BASIC Fingerprint, users can program a wide range of functionality in the printer itself. Intermec business partners over the years have used Fingerprint's capabilities to develop an eye-popping array of intelligent printing solutions that extend its reach even further, whether in ready-to-go packages or custom designed applications. To celebrate its birthday, Fingerprint in 2000 teamed with Intermec's EasyLAN 100i Ethernet board to provide powerful Internet printing systems -- the ability to print, for example, from Web page interfaces or to access host databases directly from the printer without using a PC at each workstation, for PC-free printing. It's Web form function allows users to print to literally any Fingerprint bar code printer in the world using only a Web browser The program that serves as your front end to the Web on the Internet. In order to view a site, you type its address (URL) into the browser's Location field; for example, www.computerlanguage.com, and the home page of that site is downloaded to you. and the printer's own URL URL in full Uniform Resource Locator Address of a resource on the Internet. The resource can be any type of file stored on a server, such as a Web page, a text file, a graphics file, or an application program. address. Intermec EasyCoder 501XP, 601XP, F2 and F4 printers come equipped with Fingerprint. Complete information about Intermec EasyCoder printers is available at www.intermec.com. "The intelligence of an EasyCoder with Fingerprint exceeds that of any other label printer around, period," said Brad Bellows, of DASCO DASCO Discriminant Analysis with Shrunken Covariances , an Intermec Premier Partner. "But it's more than smart. It's adaptable." That was the intent, Fingerprint inventors say, of taking their original good idea and making it even better. About Intermec Intermec Technologies Corp., a UNOVA Inc. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :UNA Una personification of honesty; leads lamb and rides white ass. [Br. Lit.: Faerie Queene] See : Honesty ) company, is a leader in global supply chain solutions and in the development, manufacture and integration of wired and wireless automated data collection, Intellitag(R) RFID (Radio Frequency IDentification) A data collection technology that uses electronic tags for storing data. The tag, also known as an "electronic label," "transponder" or "code plate," is made up of an RFID chip attached to an antenna. (radio frequency identification See RFID. ), mobile computing systems, bar code printers and media supplies. The company's products and services are used by customers in many industries to improve productivity, quality and responsiveness of business operations, from supply chain management and enterprise resource planning See ERP. (application, business) Enterprise Resource Planning - (ERP) Any software system designed to support and automate the business processes of medium and large businesses. to field sales and service. To learn more about Fingerprint, Intermec bar code printers and about how companies can benefit from Intermec's supply chain technologies, contact Intermec Technologies Corp., 6001 36th Ave. West, P.O. Box 4280, Everett, WA 98203-9280 USA; telephone 800/347-2636; or visit Intermec's web site at www.intermec.com. To learn more about UNOVA, visit www.unova.com. |
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