Do you own a DuraLabel label or sign printer? If you do, this post is for you. If you don't (but you must hurry and buy one!), this post is still for you.

Graphic Products just announced it is giving away the latest 8GB Apple iPod Touch for the winner of the DuraLabel Label & Sign Photo Contest happening now through May 31, 2010.

That's right, a free iPod Touch. You know you want it! So here's what you need to do:

1. Simply find a unique, creative, unusual label or sign made with any DuraLabel printer (DuraLabel PRO, DuraLabel PRO 300, DuraLabel 4TTP, DuraLabel 2000, DuraLabel 7000, DuraLabel 9000, DuraLabel Lab PRO). Tip: Think of the many types of labeling applications for which you could stick a label or sign in or around your facility -- the possibilities are limitless!
   
2. Take a quality photo of your label or sign (including what it's applied to or applied near).
3. Upload it to http://www.graphicproducts.com/photos/
4. Cross your fingers you're the creative labeling genius who submits the best photo and wins the iPod Touch!

Winners will be announced after the deadline for photo submissions, which is May 31, 2010.

For more details, ideas on photo types and complete contest rules, click here.

Labels: D, DuraLabel 2000, DuraLabel 7000, DuraLabel 9000, DuraLabel LabPRO, DuraLabel Photo Contest, DuraLabel PRO 300, uraLabel 4TTP

posted by Daniel E - 9:19:00 AM - - Permanent Link to This Article

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ATTENTION blog readers: Graphic Products has a new guide available for you! And best of all, it's absolutely free upon request.

Read the official press release entitled, "OSHA safety and accident prevention spotlighted in latest guide from Graphic Products."

Here are some things you'll find within OSHA Accident Reports:

• Accident prevention recommendations based on specific OSHA standards like OSHA 29 CFR and PART 1926 Safety and Health Regulations for Construction
• Work safety tips
• Information about DuraLabel safety label and sign printers engineered for the industrial workplace

Labels: DuraLabel, OSHA Accident Reports, OSHA Compliance, Workplace Safety

posted by Daniel E - 11:29:00 AM - - Permanent Link to This Article

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"No matter how much time you've wasted in the past, you still have an entire tomorrow." ~Denis Waitely

Fortunately, this saying applies to everyone. Time truly is non-discriminatory--everyone has equal access to the same amount of time. But it's how we use time that matters so that we can have more time for things we need to accomplish and things we'd like to accomplish. When we use our time efficiently, we are able to free up some time for them. DuraLabel knows that best.

For example, you might be a safety manager at a facility. OSHA has just left your facility, leaving you a few warnings and suggestions for improvement, including safety labeling and signage compliance. You've got to get that accomplished or risk facing a fine, but your boss is expecting a report on his desk by noon the next day, a leaking pipe needs immediate attention, and a number of your workers have been out with the flu. Time is an immediate issue because you don't know how you will possibly get everything accomplished in that amount of time -- and on time! Past experience has told you that time spent making safety labels using your current label printer is long, arduous and frustrating. You've wasted a lot of time in the past messing with your unreliable, slow label printer and substandard quality labeling supplies. OSHA is breathing down your neck to make those safety labels, and you don't want to risk putting it off any longer because your job is at stake!

Sound like a probable predicament? Thanks to DuraLabel, making safety labels does not take up much of your precious time. Indeed, DuraLabel does indeed free up your time so you can get other important things accomplished. The DuraLabel PRO 300 is engineered to get your facility labeled in a hurry, without sparing OSHA compliance issues (or your job!). Changing tapes and ribbons in the DuraLabel PRO 300 is quick and incredibly easy. With the DuraLabel PRO 300, you have the ability to use software with which you are already familiar. Create a label design using Microsoft Word, print it using your DuraLabel PRO 300, and apply your labels where they're needed. Included with every purchase of a DuraLabel PRO 300 are hundreds of Word and Excel label templates. DuraLabel's already done the hard work -- just enter the required label information specific to the application and work area. Piece of cake. And finished in very little time.

Also included with the purchase of a DuraLabel PRO 300:

• Over 300 commonly used safety symbols and graphics
• DuraSuite software featuring a RTK chemical database for printing NFPA diamond labels, RTK color bar labels, and arc flash labels
• High speed processing with 300 dpi resolution

Labels: DuraLabel, DuraLabel PRO 300, OSHA Compliance

posted by Daniel E - 7:37:00 AM - - Permanent Link to This Article

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Brady Worldwide is introducing its latest printer for making industrial labels, the Brady PMP71 Label Printer. Made for industrial labels 1/4" to 2" in width, the PMB71 is capable of printing small die-cut labels for wire marking, cable marking, inventory management and more. The PMB71 also prints pipe markers, OSHA safety labels, office labels on standard vinyl tapes. What Brady has done is provided a new, portable printer intended for narrow application needs, such as the applications just listed. With the Brady PMB71, users will notice it's somewhat of a cross between a HandiMark and a TLS2200, two Brady hand held label printers with which many are already familiar.

Here are a few of the features provided by the Brady PMB71 Label Printer:

Color display
Easy-to-use label design software
Print speed up to 1.5 inches/sec
Compatibility with over 30 different supplies
QWERTY-style keypad

While the new Brady printer is something new worth mentioning, so too are DuraLabel's growing line of industrial label printers. DuraLabel printers are increasingly popular because of their ability to combine features, functions, quality and capabilities of numerous label printers--not just a couple. So while you check out the new Brady PMB71 Label Printer, you MUST check out all DuraLabel label printers.


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DuraLabel Supplies On the Rise
Dr. DuraLabel: I Have a Prescription for That

Labels: Brady PMB71, Brady Printers, DuraLabel 2000, DuraLabel 7000, DuraLabel 9000, DuraLabel Pro, DuraLabel PRO 300, Portable Label Printers

posted by Daniel E - 1:32:00 PM - - Permanent Link to This Article

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Oregon OSHA recently cited a national refrigerated warehouse operation for 10 willful violations, four serious repeat violations and 22 other serious violations of the Oregon Safe Employment Act. Fines totaled $740,400. Sound like a lot? No question that is a lot. These citations and fines came largely as a result of Americold Logistics' failure to protect its workers from a hazardous chemical called anhydrous ammonia. But what's worse than surrendering that amount of money is the fact that Americold Logistics willfully put so many people at risk of serious injury and death.

Now that's scary.

Graphic Products is offering a free Ammonia Pipe Marking Guide to all facilities and organizations that want one. It's a smart choice, and it's as simple as submitting a brief request. Just click on the image below:
Related posts:

Oregon OSHA Fines Americold Logistics $740,400
Got Ammonia Pipes? Get 'em Marked Right!

Labels: Ammonia Pipe Marking, Pipe Marker Labels, Workplace Safety

posted by Daniel E - 2:54:00 PM - - Permanent Link to This Article

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