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Friday, February 1, 2002

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Evolis announced the new Tattoo RW, a compact monochrome printer that can erase and print up to 500 times the same card.

The new Tattoo RW is designed to print on rewritable cards. Such cards contain a thermochromic material that makes data (text, graphics and barcodes) visible or vanish, depending on the temperature to which the card is exposed. This process can be rolled back and the same card can be erased and reprinted up to 500 times.

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Schreiner ProSecure has announced that its Contactless Payment Sticker won the first-place award for “Digital Printing” in the U.S. Tag and Label Manufacturers Institute’s (TLMI) annual international competition.

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Convergent Software announced the launch of two initial product offerings designed to comply with the new ISO 28560-2 requirements recently announced on the RFID for Libraries Support Web site.

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At this year’s AIM Expo, FEIG ELECTRONICS announced the unveil of the latest addition to its line of ultra-high frequency long-range readers.

Licensed according to ETSI and FCC, the long-range reader LRU3500 has a detection range of up to 10 meters and its decoding engine reads FM0- and Miller coded return link signals for, as an example, Dense Reader Mode or ISO 18000-6-B.

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Ekahau Inc. announced that the Brooke Army Medical Center at Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio, Texas has selected the Ekahau real time location system to track more than 5,000 pieces of mobile equipment throughout the facility.

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In the healthcare industries, RFID and barcode are always pitted against each other – RFID is often positioned as the technology that will replace barcodes, which are described as lacking.

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