SATO America, Inc., a global leader in barcode printing, labeling, and EPC/RFID solutions, today announced the introduction of a new high-speed thermal transfer ribbon. The ribbon, JetWax, is fully capable of producing scannable barcodes, sharp images, and human readable text at real-time print speeds of up to 16 inches per second (ips). Combined with SATO’s newest OEM print engine family, the S84 series, which is capable of printing at speeds up to 16 ips, JetWax makes printing at this high speed a production floor reality.

JetWax ribbon is compatible with a wide variety of substrates including not only gloss, matte coated and uncoated paper, but a select variety of poly materials. The JetWax formulation provides good scratch, smear, heat, and water resistance across a wide range of thermal printing applications. The ribbon is ideal for high speed automated print/apply, date and lot coding, retail compliance labeling, shipping labels, and any other applications where production line speeds dictate the need for high speed labeling.

“JetWax is currently the only ribbon that allows end users to realize the full print speed capability of the new S84 OEM print engines,” says Curtis Roberts, Consumables Product Manager at SATO America. “There are those customers that simply need to maximize existing production line speeds. The combination of our newest S84s and JetWax ribbon is, for these customers, the very best solution.”

About SATO
SATO is a pioneer in the Automatic Identification and Data Collection (AIDC) industry and the inventor of the world’s first electronic thermal transfer barcode printer. It revolutionized the barcoding industry by introducing the Data Collection System (DCS) & Labeling concept – a total barcode and labeling solution providing high quality barcode printers, scanners/hand-held terminals, label design software and consumables. SATO is one of the first in the industry to introduce a complete, multi-protocol EPC-compliant, UHF RFID solution.

SATO is publicly listed on the first section of Tokyo Stock Exchange in Japan. It has worldwide offices in the United States, Belgium, France, Germany, Spain, United Kingdom, Poland, Singapore, Malaysia, Australia, New Zealand, Thailand and China. For the fiscal year ended March 31, 2006, it reported revenues of US$587 million.

Courtesy of SATO