Hi, Travis from POSGuys.com, and today I'm going to start a series on wristband printing,
and we're going to go over how you print wristbands, what kind of equipment is available, and how
do you set up your software to be able to print to a wristband.
So first off, what wristbands are available.
Generally, we recommend using the Zebra brand wristbands with the Zebra printer.
They are very affordable, they're available in multiple colors, and they have a couple
different options available for general use.
With healthcare, you get even more choices, but we're going to focus on general use for now.
The two main flavors are the fun band, which is a band that you use for like a museum,
a concert, anything where it's not going to be too active, and you just want a good,
general use wristband.
And then they have the Splash.
So the Splash and the Fun are basically the same size, however, this one is a little more
durable, so it's for water parks, it's for kind of outdoor adventure centers, places
where you would get the wristband muddy, you're kind of more worried about them getting torn,
falling off, getting wet.
Both the Splash and the Fun are a one inch by ten inch wristband, with adhesive on one side.
They're available in several different colors, this is the yellow, this is the purple, but
there are reds, blues, greens available, kind of go down the list if you want to see stock colors.
All the text will always be black with thermal change.
One other thing you can get is you can get a completely custom wristband.
So this is a ten inch width, but it's also much narrower than the other label.
You can see it's about a quarter of an inch more narrow.
And of course there's kind of custom designs on it.
So that's available for your use if you want, however you will have to buy in bulk.
You're going to want to supply us with your annual run, annual usage of it, and then we'll
contact Zebra and their custom printing department can quote out a bulk purchase on it.
The more that you use, the cheaper it is per label price.
If you're only going to go through a very small quantity, then it would be quite expensive
to have a custom wristband, but they are available in custom sizes and custom designs if you would like.
Both wristbands are quite durable.
This is the fun band, you can pull on it pretty hard, you can try and rip them, they don't
rip, you know you pull real hard, you can break them eventually.
The spot that it's most likely to break is on the adhesive.
So the adhesive is a one inch strip at the end, you just pull it off, and you wrap it
around like a normal wristband, and then tape it down, and that's it, it's connected.
When you want it to come off, they are pretty tough, if you pull pretty hard it won't come
off, kind of the trick to it is to pull it right at where the adhesive is connected and
you can rip it off.
And then once it's ripped off, it's sort of tamper proof, so you'll see a hole in it,
if someone tries to pass it on to their friend and tape it on, you'll see the kind of weird
tear on it, so sort of tamper proof, it doesn't leave a void or anything like that, where
there's extra security, you just kind of see that it's been ripped.
Out of the printer, they don't have any kind of edges or anything like that.
If I print out one blank label, it's ready to go, the adhesive is on the back, that's
all there is to it.
They print without any ribbon, it's a direct printing only, you can print at full speed,
this is a 6 inch per second printer, if I print a single label, they come out.
The barcodes are legible, the text is legible, it's dark, it's clear, it's ready to go.
A very good basic wristband for general use.
It works on the very inexpensive ZD410.
You can also use the more advanced printers, the wider printers, but really if you just
want a quick, easy printer, the ZD410, this is the Z Band Fun, this is the Z Band Splash.
For more information on the printer and the wristbands, visit us at POSGuys.com.
Thanks!