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New Validation System: Digi-Trax strongly suggests that clients consider our tested and proven validation system for FDA approval of their ISBT128 labels. This validation can save a great deal of in-house time and cost over having an outside source come on site or utilizing your own limited resources. For assistance with this validation, please call or e-mail Dick Stone at 847-542-4611

9-30-2008: New products from Digi-Trax for Blood Banking: HemaTrax-ID system for ISBT 128 transfusion verification
• HemaTrax-CT for cellular therapy, HT-CT for tissue banking.
• On-demand DIN printing and our new DIN CHECK... right label on right bag...real committed innovations.

HemaTrax Software Alerts are now online and updated regularly. Software alerts are designed to inform customers of issues, error reports, solutions, and workarounds. View Current Software Alerts as well as archived alerts.

New! HemaTrax Standalone
Version 6.2.1 is now available! View all the changes and improvements in 6.2.1 by viewing the release notes.
ISBT 128 On-Demand Compliance Labeling

Version 3.0.2 release of the HemaTrax Print Server will include an important enhancement that all integrators will welcome. The next release will support facility and licensee names up to one hundred characters in length.

Facility and licensee names will wrap to two lines, each line up to fifty characters in length. Inclusion of the vertical bar character, "|", in the facility or licensee name field of the label request message will force a line break at that point. In the absence of the vertical bar character, the print server will attempt to find a logical break point in the line where a space, comma or dash may appear. The print server will automatically adjust character height and width to fit the name, location and registration number text on the label.

In cases where a facility name and separate licensee name are both included and both wrap to two lines the font size will dip below six point type. This is a very small type size, nearing the limits of text legibility and also approaching the limits of the SATO and Zebra Technologies printers' scalable vector font.

This change impacts the ABO-Rh/Date & Time, Date & Time, Facility, Facility/Product, Full Face and Product/Date & Time label formats.

This enhancement has held up the Version 3.0 release of the Print Server. More than one company had customers with name lengths that exceeded the print server's capacity and felt that it was important that this extension be implemented before the next release. As a result we've had to delay the validation to employ the additional testing that is needed. Should validation testing continue to go smoothly, we'll likely be releasing the Print Server by August 1st.

Please feel free to download the latest copy of the HemaTrax Print Server,Version 3.0, manual here.

Hema Trax V 3.0.2 will also be enabling the capability to print ISBT 128 compliant (see Technical Bulletin #8 www.iccbba.org Or, download the PDF directly here) Patient ID wristbands and Compatibility labels to electronically match bar coded blood units to bar coded patients.
View the HemaTrax TCP 3.0.2 release notes.

Digi-Trax now has HemaTrax Software Installation Tutorial Videos!

New! HemaTrax TCP/IP Print Server Version 3.0.2 has been released to software partners for integration.
3.0.2 includes an updated database, ISBT-128 compliant wristband patient ID printing, Compatibility label/ tag printing for use with bedside transfusion verification systems.
View the HemaTrax TCP 3.0.2 release notes.

ISBT128 Compliance
Labeling Software

Digi-Trax Corporation announces finalizing agreements with most every U.S. developer of blood bank management software to interface its Hema Trax™ on-demand ISBT 128 Compliance Labeling Software. This action will allow all U.S. Blood Collection Centers and Transfusion Services to meet the AABB compliance deadline of May 1, 2008

Hema Trax ™ has been designed to comply with all FDA labeling requirements codified by the ICCBBA in the U.S. Industry Consensus Standard V 2.0.0, Nov 2005.

Details on Hema Trax™ can be viewed at www.digi-trax.com under “software products”. You can view actual software manuals, download new releases, view FAQ’s or view NEW Tutorial Videos for Hema Trax™ at www.digi-trax.com/video and download various white papers.

AABB has made their implementation guide (publication item# 063005) available for purchase. The cost is $20.00. Please inform your customers that they may purchase this 30 page
booklet directly at The AABB.org Marketplace

Digi-Trax introduces new LAB-Tuf^TM label product!

Digi-Trax has developed a series of new labeling solutions, the The LAB-Tuf™ Group for harsh environment labeling found in laboratories and bio-repositories. On-demand printing provides the labels you need when you need them. These features all at a lower cost versus pre-printed labels. Digi-Trax has agreements with VWR Scientific and Allegiance Healthcare to distribute our LAB-Tuf solution. LAB-Tuf includes label media, special ribbons, thermal transfer printer (Del Sol™) and NICE Label Suite™ software.

Digi-Trax introduces new Bluetooth® products!

The all new Metrologics® MK9535 with wireless Bluetooth® Technology allows the user to operate within a 33 foot range and with exclusive RangeGate™. The scanner will automatically store bar codes in SRAM when outside the operating range. When you return to the communication area the data is transferred and normal scanning resumes.

The scanner can be Dynamically paired to the address code on any charging cradle. The MK9535 can also connect as either a client or server to other Bluetooth® devices.

There is even a page button on the cradle to allow the user to locate its paired scanner if misplaced!

Symbol Technologies adds Bluetooth®

The popular MC70 and PPT88XX Mobile PDA series for both batch and wireless 802.11b operations has now added Bluetooth® or Bluetooth™/ WLAN functionality. This flexible PDA operates with a choice of embedded Windows CE. Net 4.1 or Windows Mobile 2003 for Pocket PC.

You can choose from various memory options or add 15 key alpha function numeric keypad to the standard 6-key keypad.

May versatile options are available, making this PDA a most popular choice in the health care and life-sciences arena.

We have ISBT starter kits for Zebra printers in stock available for immediate shipping. SATO kits will be made as needed.

Part# ISBT-STARTER-KIT-Z (ZEBRA)
New Price: $175.00/kit

A kit includes:
1 roll(950 labels) 4"x4" label
1 roll(2400 labels)2"x2" label
1 roll(1400 labels)4"x2" label
1 fanfold(502 labels) ISBT-128 Unit Numbers
1 roll ribbon(R-18104617) for Unit Numbers
1 roll ribbon(RR-110-6075) 4" wide ribbon

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