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<< to the company’s customers pointed out that 80 per cent of the generated by the forklift’s PC. This success with long-term benefits.
throughout the region. Datamax Compact4 Mobile label contains information about The adaptable, desktop-to-forklift
printers are mounted to forklifts. every order he needs to pick. Compact4 Mobile printers have
The Datamax Compact4 Mobile The Compact4 printer was the Depending on the customer’s stood up to the challenges of
printers play a central role in the only printer that Moberg tested requirements, every order contains Ahlsell’s harsh and cold Nordic
company’s distribution system, that could operate from a a certain number of order lines. warehouse. For as long as
where the flexible, go-anywhere connection to a forklift’s battery. It The forklift driver is given picking Moberg keeps the Compact4
Datamax printers are used to is also vibration-proof to stand up instructions and other information, Mobile printers clean, and
create labels for marking parts to the rigorous demands of mobile including when the order needs to changes an occasional worn-out
with part numbers and part warehouse logistics. be ready for shipment. When every pinhead, he has every expectation
names. However, it is the order line is picked, a new label is that his company’s essential
deployment of the mighty Moberg explained how the mobile generated containing the part name, warehouse operation will continue
Compact4 printers within the printing operation works: “The part number, ordering number, to run virtually problem free for
warehouse that makes this printer process begins when the forklift quantity, etc. This label is applied years to come. circlesolid
application atypical. Moberg driver tears off a picking label to every picked order line. When
the driver has picked all the order
lines and the order is complete,
he takes the goods to a station
DATAMAX AT A
where an address/shipping label is GLANCE
generated on an MP Nova4 printer.
Datamax, a subsidiary
There is one label for every order.
of Dover Corporation,
The goods are then unloaded in a
specialises in the
shipping zone, where it is loaded
design, manufacture,
onto a delivery truck.”
and marketing of
products for barcode
and RFID labelling;
Adaptable to extremes
including thermal
The Datamax printers are also
demand printers, label,
used in other applications inside
ticket & tag materials
the warehouse. According to
and thermal transfer
Moberg, the Compact4 Mobile is
ribbons. Headquartered
used for marking arriving goods
in Orlando, Florida,
with a pallet label. The pallet label
Datamax has
contains a part number, part name,
representative offices
quantity, and a barcode. It is later throughout the US and
scanned by the forklift driver to in Singapore, China,
determine where he should place and the UK, as well as
the pallet in the warehouse.
label converting and
preprinting facilities in
For Moberg, his dedicated efforts
Robinson, Illinois.
at getting Datamax printers into
Ahlsell has resulted in immediate
The adaptable, desktop-to-forklift Compact4 Mobile printers
have stood up to the challenges of Ahlsell’s harsh and cold
Nordic warehouse.
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