Our friends at NiceLabel have written up an awesome case study on our work with Swenco Limited, North America’s leading manufacturer and distributor of components for the safety footwear industry.  It outlines the printing challenges faced by Swenco, and the solution designed and developed by our very own Ian Faust. With NiceLabel’s solution designer, we were able to create an intuitive printing interface that integrates with their ERP database and generates lists within the print form.  These lists show the user every label they could need to print, and breaks them d ..read more

IPSi, like most of the country, runs partially on caffeine (the other part being our love of labels and passion for efficiency, but we will get to that later), so we were more than happy to help when Rich Robertson of Town Coffee Company reached out to us with a need for a labeling solution. Since Town Coffee is a startup, we were able to build a custom labeling solution from the ground up.  Their colorful and somewhat elaborate label design meant that there was only one printer for the job- the Epson ColorWorks C6000A inkjet color label printer.  At 1200 DPI, we knew t ..read more

Beer has been around for a long time (according to Google, about 7,000 years), but the number of people drinking beer as a hobby has increased immensely over the last 20 years.  As you can see in the graph below, the number of breweries has risen to meet the challenge of creating a beer for every pallet. As the quantity of craft breweries in the US continues to head steadily skyward, it becomes easier to be a beer enthusiast but harder to become a beverage retailer.  Shelves that used to hold cases of the same five beers are being replaced with dozens of different types ..read more

Between Rounds (South Windsor, CT) probably has one of the largest bagel-based menus I have ever seen in my life.  With over 20 years serving Connecticut, Between Rounds is one of the Nutmeg State’s most beloved homegrown franchises. And for good reason! Their bagels are made fresh every day, and they hold each of their locations to the highest standards of quality for eggs, meat, fresh produce, coffee, and each of their other offerings. If you’re in a Between Rounds Bakery Sandwich Café, you can be sure you’re getting the best!  There’s a reason they have been in business ..read more

Crystal Tones (Salt Lake City, UT) is a distributor of quartz singing bowls as well as a variety of accessories and other products that allow their customers to pursue physical and mental peace.  The singing bowls are designed to create healing and balance through the power of sound, each creating a specific audible pitch when used.   The Problem: Their extensive catalog features the ability to first select a singing bowl material, then select a singing bowl size and a pitch.  When each of the dozens of materials offers a handful of varieties and size options, ea ..read more

The Epson TM-C3500 is a landmark printer.  As unassuming as it may be, this rugged little device has assisted in the advancement of countless label printing workflows. In this blog post, we will review the proper steps to loading the Epson ColorWorks C3500 inkjet color label printer. Make sure you have the correct size media,  this device accepts labels up to 4.12″ wide. Also ensure that the printer gap detection is also set properly.  In order to do this, access the printer setting utility through your Epson printer driver.  From here, access the label gap detectio ..read more

In this blog, we will walk through the proper method of replacing the maintenance box on the Epson TM-C7500 and TM-C7500G inkjet color label printers.  All you will need is a new SJMB7500 maintenance box, which you can order from our store. The printers have the ability to read the current status of the installed box, so you don’t have to worry about keeping a schedule for maintenance.  When the box is going to need to be replaced soon, the printer will display an ‘!’ over the M/B label of the interface.  This simply means that the box will be full soon, and if you don’t ..read more

The Epson C7500 and C7500G are Epson’s fastest inkjet printers and lead the ColorWorks charge in high-volume, high-quality color labels.  With speeds of up to 12 inches per second and remarkable quality of 600x1200dpi, these workhorse printers can crank out full-bleed labels at a remarkable rate.  That means that eventually, the ink will need to be replaced. So how do you replace the ink on the C7500 or C7500G? Make sure your printer is plugged in and turned on, and make sure that the printer is actually out of ink!  Many users are so used to home office desktop printers that ..read more

The Epson ColorWorks C3500 inkjet label printer has been around for a while, but at the time of its release, a 720 dpi label printer with superb flexibility and resilience at such a low price point was unheard of.  Furthermore, the lack of complicated maintenance processes on the printer was another huge selling point. Replacing the ink cartridges on the TM-C3500 is one of the very few things you need to do in order to keep your printing workflow moving.  If you don’t have extra ink cartridges as a backup, head over to our store (LINK) and order yours as soon as possible. Trust u ..read more

The ability to create striking, high-resolution labels is not exclusive to the Epson C6000-series of color label printers. But they might do it best. The amount of ink being used by the printer is heavily dependant on the quality selected in the printer driver.  Regardless of your print quality setting, you are eventually going to need to replace the ink cartridges of the printer.  This process is easy for the Epson-experienced, but some newcomers to color label printing technology may feel a bit intimidating (even if these printers aren’t particularly delicate). In this blog, we ..read more