As labor costs continue to rise, retailers are looking for more ways to drive costs out of their operations, without sacrificing customer service or employee satisfaction. Printing shelf labels, shelf talkers, and signage in the aisle, at the point of need, will accomplish both of these tasks. Printing in the aisle eliminates wasted steps, and keeps personnel on the floor, so they are available for customer service.

Over time, inefficient printing procedures will cost retailers thousands of hours of lost productivity, and be the reason for countless mistakes. RTI will help you win the battle of inefficiency and take control of the rising cost of labor that threatens today’s retailers with the DESIGN-R-LABELS family of software and hardware.

With the introduction of wearable mobile printers and handheld PDA computers, retailers finally have a solution to printing replacement tags and talkers without wasting an entire sheet of labels. However, mobile printers alone, without the proper software to drive them, have limited capabilities when it comes to graphics, fonts, sizing, and spacing. This makes duplicating labels printed with conventional laser printers virtually impossible. As a solution to this problem, many retailers resort to printing a temporary tag in the aisle and then come back later to replace it with a permanent label printed with a laser printer. This “band-aid” method not only creates a new inefficiency, it also disrupts continuity and the overall look and feel of quality in your store.

DESIGN-R-LABELS with the N-AISLE PRINTING option is the solution that retailers around the world have been seeking. No more need for the temporary “band-aid” tag!

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