Zebra Technologies

Lincolnshire, Illinois-based Zebra Technologies Corporation, a global leader in specialty printing and automatic identification solutions, announced that Ashley Ford has been appointed vice president for sales in North America for the Specialty Printing Group (SPG).

Zebra Technologies is no longer converting RFID labels, but if you still need that work done turn to Tipp City, Ohio-based Repacorp.

Headquartered in Cambridge, Mass., IDTechEx specializes in printed electronics, RFID and smart packaging, providing strictly independent marketing, technical and business advice and services on these subjects. Raghu Das, CEO/MD of IDTechEx, has been closely involved with the development of RFID and printed electronics for more than six years. Following are highlights from his report on how RFID use grew in the marketplace during 2007. In round figures, the value of the RFID market grew strongly to $5 billion in 2007, mainly powered by a peak in deliveries of the Chinese national ID card, with about $2 billion of cards and infrastructure being delivered

Zebra Technologies, Vernon Hills, Ill., a global leader in specialty printing and automatic identification solutions, announced the launch of its Zebra R3i and R4i UHF RFID card printer/encoders—a new RFID product series designed to save time and costs, while heightening security in a host of auto-identification, access control and asset tracking applications. The company is also offering genuine Zebra-designed supplies; rugged, flexible UHF RFID-enabled plastic cards for single-sided or dual-sided card printing. The RFID card printers are now available in North America, with global release scheduled for early 2008. “We are pleased to once again be the first in the industry to develop