New MarkMagic offerings bring on-demand RFID item tag encoding and fabric-care label printing to apparel manufacturers.
CYBRA Corp. has announced a suite of in-plant printing offerings specifically targeted at apparel manufacturers facing the following government and retailer mandates:
Item-level RFID Tags for EPC (electronic product code) compliance with Walmart, Dillards, JC Penney, and other retailers.
Fabric care labels with batch numbers for Section 103 of the CPSIA (Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act).
VICS color-to-size tickets for women's ready-to-wear, men's sportswear, footwear and intimate apparel manufacturers.
"We've had many customers approach us for cost-effective alternatives to service bureaus for meeting these new compliance marking challenges without incurring the complexities typically involved in bringing these processes in house," said Harold Brand, CYBRA's CEO. "As suppliers to the apparel industry since 1990, we understand their workflows and are able to offer them integrated solutions that will save them time and money by giving their plant personnel the capability to print the labels, tags, and tickets they need, on demand, anywhere in the world."
"Our customers are some of the world's leading brands. These new offerings provide them with improved quality control, faster turnaround, and dramatic reductions in shipping costs. MarkMagic technology ensures that all documents produced will have the latest data --prices, sizes, batch and lot numbers, as reflected in their ERP, WMS, and manufacturing systems, he added."
According to Sheldon Reich, CYBRA vice president of Solutions, "CYBRA in-plant solutions let customers streamline and standardize their labeling, ticketing, and RFID tagging with a single product," that includes the following:
Fabric care labeling
Garment ticketing
GS1/UCC shipping labeling
Invoice, statement, and forms printing
VICS color to size labeling and ticketing
On demand Internet/Intranet/Extranet web portal
Support for cold cutters, ultrasonic knives, stackers, rewinders, and more than 450 printer types
Integrated e-mail and PDF file creation
EPCGlobal Gen 2 SGTIN-96, SSCC-99 and other RFID Tag commissioning for items, cases, and pallets
RFID tag validation and association of items to cases to pallets to retain the integrity of transport units with load units
User defined multilevel GTIN product hierarchies
Application pallet/case/item order validation
Support for fixed and mobile RFID readers
"CYBRA in-plant printing solutions are a perfect fit for apparel manufacturers of all sizes, assuring they'll always be ready for a runway smash hit," Reich concludes.
CYBRA Corporation (OTC BB: CYRP.OB) is a leader in bar code and RFID technology serving customers in a wide range of industries. Thousands of organizations worldwide rely on CYBRA’s innovative solutions daily as the Auto-ID engine underlying their critical applications for retail compliance, shipping, inventory, warehouse management, in-plant printing and print and apply automation. A GS1 Solution Provider and an IBM Business Partner since 1989, CYBRA develops solutions in partnership with Alien Technologies, Avery Dennison, Impinj, Motorola, Psion Teklogix, SATO, Zebra Technologies, and other leading printer, reader, and RFID tag manufacturers. CYBRA is represented by a network of value added resellers throughout the United States and sales and support offices overseas. MarkMagic Bar Code Labels, RFID Tags and Forms Software empowers customers to design virtually any type of Auto-ID document—labels, forms, RFID tags, tickets, magnetic stripe plastic cards—and print them on hundreds of types of general and specialized printers from laser to thermal to automated applicators. MarkMagic has been selected as the Auto-ID print engine of such leading software developers as Manhattan Associates, Infor and VAI. CYBRA's latest product, EdgeMagic, is a platform for rapidly building integrated applications that locate objects and people using RFID, RTLS and other tracking technologies. EdgeMagic provides customers with the ability to quickly implement EPC (Electronic Product Code) compliance systems, and RFID closed loop track and trace applications. CYBRA software solutions run on all major computing platforms including IBM Power Systems (System i, iSeries, AS/400, AIX) as well as Linux, Unix, and Microsoft Windows.
You must be logged in to view or make comments on this article.