However, the other companies did not show their 802.11 transceivers working with another company s base station. That s why Breezecom and Raytheon were picked as number two and the others were not. The automatic identification industry is fast becoming a commodity industry. Customers are buying products on price because most products have virtually identical performance. One of the most vicious areas is bar code label printing software.
Third place goes to one such product.
Not for what it does the same as the rest but what it does differently. Graftek Inc. CommWatch makes capturing data from weigh scales, scanners or PLC s and printing labels incorporating the data from those devices as easy as selecting a printer. The product also comes with DataWatch which can detect a change in a database and automatically print a label. These two features make systems design child s play for systems integrators. While most other label printing software are just software peripherals for other systems software, LabelView Gold version 4.2 is the heart of a complete application.