Digital Printing shops that do, or WANT to do, higher volume work are always looking for 2 things:
#1: Better Workflow – that’s more efficiency, less confusion and better turn around time for customer orders.
#2: Reduced labor cost – other than feeding your D2 printer ink or toner and paying your rent, there’s no bigger expense in most businesses that labor.
If you are looking for ways to improve workflow while also reducing labor costs in your printing operation [which you ARE, of course] then adding a barcode scanner to your operation could be a silver bullet.
It is especially important if you have more than one operator of your printing equipment – whether it be D2 [direct to garment printing], UV or even white toner based lasers like the Digital HeatFX. Because it minimizes the software knowledge required by your operator.
And that can help to reduce both errors and labor costs.
If you are running multiple machines you can have one graphics person preparing all of your output and let the machine operators simply point, shoot, load, print and repeat!