| SPECIALIZED LABEL CONVERTERS | | | | what the printer can do. Bigger jobs will need the use |
| Originally the label converter was a big machine, part | | | | of an industrial sized label converter, but for everyday |
| of a specialized linear process. Additionally, a label | | | | office work or a small operation, this new tool does |
| converter needed a trained operator and a proper | | | | the job quite well. |
| technical service to keep it working. A label converter | | | | Current development has allowed small-sized labelling |
| was used either to provide services for many small | | | | jobs to be easily done with this kind of label converter. |
| businesses or as part of a bigger industrial operation. | | | | A home business can benefit from a home printer set |
| However, technology has brought a new kind of label | | | | adapted to be used as a label converter. If a bigger |
| converter. Now, anyone with a computer, a printer and | | | | job is needed, they can always rely on the big scale |
| the proper label converter software can enjoy the | | | | label converter services of a specialized business, or |
| benefits of a “domestic” label converter. | | | | they can also buy an industrial-size label converter to |
| This has developed as part of a growing need of the | | | | do such tasks. |
| small business for independency. Previously they | | | | With the evolution of software and printers that has |
| needed to request the service of a third party with a | | | | occurred these past few decades, a better, more |
| label converter to satisfy their needs. Now, with the | | | | versatile, label converter has reached the consumer |
| logical limits of a home printer, they can have a label | | | | market. This has put the label converter as another |
| converter of their own to use it for quick, cheap, | | | | accessible tool for a market with ever-growing needs. |
| custom jobs. Of course ink costs and printing | | | | Such changes have definitively changed the whole |
| techniques make this kind of label converter limited if | | | | concept that embodied the traditional uses of a label |
| compared to huge industrial equipments. The ability to | | | | converter in industry. |
| cope with the needs of the business is restricted to | | | | |