Todd Davis

Pinfed labels continue to hold steady in an evolving market By Ken Mandel Once the label industry standard, used by shipping warehouses and nearly every business within reach of a dot-matrix printer, the continuous pinfed label market lost ground to the ease and clarity of laser and thermal transfer labels. Despite the growing use of laser products, manufacturers point out that the death of the continuous pinfed label is not in the near future. There is still a wealth of applications for the old standard. "They are still the standard for some of the large shipping houses and the electronic data processing market and should be for the