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information, virtually eliminating human
error. These tags were able to survive the
process of pickling for periods of up to 90
minutes. However, when it came to the
process of annealing, at temperatures
of 1,400
o
F (760
o
C) or greater, these tags
would vanish in a puff of smoke. Applying
tags after the annealing process meant a
wait of several days until the coils cooled.
This opened the door to more potential for
human error.
Early
metal
tags
survived through the
annealing process, but
in somecases wouldnot
withstand the pickling.
They required noisy
stamping
machines
that were difficult and
expensive to maintain.
One of the tags produced by InfoSight
Barcoding systems for metal tags were not
suitable for all industrial applications. This
meant the use of manual inventory control,
which again meant the risk of human error.
InfoSight created the first non-contact,
laser-markable tag system in 1995. The
next step in the process was developing
tags that would survive the many different
annealing and pickling processes utilised
by theworld’s wiremanufacturers. InfoSight
developed the Pic-Anneal
®
laser printable
tag. The Pic-Anneal
®
tag has a two-hour
resistance to acid baths of 20% H
2
SO
4
at
180
o
F (82
o
C) and 24% HCL at 100
o
F (38
o
C).
It also withstands 1,400
o
F heat for 48 hours
and 1,800
o
F (1,000
o
C) for two hours.
The Pic-Anneal
®
Laser-Marked tags measure
3” wide and a slot or hole is punched near
the top for easy attaching to wire coils. The
tags are marked with a CO
2
laser, resulting
in black print across the white surface. The
barcodes printed on the tags are readable
by standard barcode readers.
InfoSight supplies a full selection of metal
tags – all designed to withstand harsh
manufacturing environments. These can
be custom size and pre-print metal tags
to cover most customer specifications.
InfoSight also offers a line of laser printers
which allow customers to print their own
metal tags and to change their layout and
barcodes, as needed.
InfoSight Corp – USA
Website:
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