Barcodes are the graphical patterns, which are designed to carry and retrieve the information. And it represents the binary information which can be read by the barcode scanners. In order to print such barcode, it is necessary to have the barcode printer. There are many types of barcode printers, portable barcode printer is one of them.
Barcode printers are used in different management systems to utilize the barcode information. Barcode printer is required to make barcode label which are affixed on the item or product. A printer can print the barcode on the packing material of the product.
Portable barcode printers are printers which are battery powered and they use a thermal printhead to print the barcodes. Printhead consists of a series of adjacent thermal elements which print the pixels and dots on the surface of the label.
These printers can be used by using Blutooth technology or radio frequency. They are very useful and they can be used in different places. These printers are useful to print labels for patient bedsides, retail checkouts and more. Especially they are useful for businesses, which deal with outdoor work. Portable printer can be brought to outdoors and can be used to print the barcodes. The best example for portable barcode printer is Zebra printers. The data, which can be printed on the tags or labels, can be received by the portable barcode printers from an external host device. They use a static random access memory to store the information.
The above information is about the portable barcode printers, which are very useful for many businesses.