CASE STUDY
Printing & Labelling
Local label
printing solution
offers greater flexibility
INTHISSECTION
for auto parts dealer
Automotive parts specialist Wessels + Müller
page 38-39 Auto ID – downturn or has implemented the latest printing
recession? technology from Citizen Systems Europe
for fast and efficient label printing.
page 40-41 The battle against ID
card crime
essels + Müller sites together with the daily product
page 42-43 Card printers improve
customer service at
W
AG, based in deliveries. This proved to be rather
Osnabrück, is time consuming and tedious; on
one of the largest average, the labels did not actually
automotive parts arrive at the stores until two days
dealers in Germany. The company after they were first ordered.
leisure facilities
was formed when Wessels AG and
the Müller Group – both of which
had been serving the German
page 44, 46 Mobile printers thrive
Convincing test results
market for over 60 years – merged
in harsh warehouse
in 2001. Today, the group has It was clear to staff in the IT
environment
more than 1950 employees and department at Wessels + Müller
75 locations throughout Germany, (WM IT) that they needed to come
and is committed to providing its up with a way of handling the high
customers with original automotive volumes of labels that were needed,
parts from respected brand name while satisfying their needs from
manufacturers quickly and efficiently. a price-performance standpoint.
“We decided to contact PCO,
Until recently, the warehouse labels a company based in Osnabrück
used at all of these locations were that has a good reputation as
printed centrally in Osnabrück and an ID specialist,” said Johannes
then distributed to the individual Schlentzek, head of IT at Wessels
+ Müller. “They recommended that
we try using a specific model
printer from Citizen Systems.”
This led the team to the CLP 621
thermal transfer printer from
Citizen, which is capable of
producing up to 3000 labels in just
20 minutes. “This printer offers us
brilliant performance coupled with
extremely high quality printing,”
added Schlentzek. The printers
are also extremely robust,
because, like all other Citizen
printers, they feature an all-metal
mechanism that opens up easily to
provide access to the print head.
The print head can be raised to
the vertical position for easy
cleaning and servicing, while the
cleverly designed media arm >>
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