Pivot barcode grading system launches at Labelexpo Europe 2017

Crest Solutions, a specialist in designing and integrating inspection, verification and traceability systems, has developed Pivot, a new, easy-to-use barcode grading system for thermal transfer labels.

Pivot builds on Crest's established PrintInspector technology

Crest Solutions stated that the rapid pace of the global economy relies heavily on automated identification of products in motion/transit. Whether in automated production lines, packaging operations, warehousing, shipping, retail or e-commerce, everything that moves at speed through an increasingly connected world require barcodes to be kept tracked and traced. When those barcodes cannot be read by scanners due to poor printing grade, the movement slows to a fraction of normal pace while being manually checked.  This causes packages to be delayed or lost, resulting in millions of EUR in lost productivity, insurance pay-outs and damaged customer relations.

Debuting at Labelexpo Europe 2017, Pivot ensures barcodes printed on Zebra thermal transfer industrial printers pass the required grade. Its quality control system ensures every barcode on every label is checked at the point of printing, with defective labels able to be removed at source. 

Features of Pivot include: automatic barcode detection, with no label set-up required; simple installation to the thermal transfer printer and network; on-board controller to run the Pivot application, with no separate PC required; no software installation required, with cloud access to the application; results viewed via a web browser on PC, tablet, or smartphone; and a ‘Resume’ button , which allows removal of the defective label and resumption of printing.