APPLICATION SOLUTIONS
Cognitive’s C Series printers are ideally positioned for applications that require compact, rugged and reliable high performance thermal barcode and label printing.  The C Series printer is engineered for high-performance and large volume printing needs for the following vertical markets:

Healthcare
Cognitive’s Healthcare Printing Applications cover your needs from admitting desk and patient care, to pharmacy and lab work, to inventory and asset management. Our thermal printers are used in hospitals and medical facilities around the world to print barcode labels for wristbands, specimen labels, prescriptions, and business forms for healthcare organizations of all sizes.

• Medical and dental practices (individual and group) for labeling patient records, file tracking, laboratory samples.
• Veterinary care facilities – for animal identification, script labeling and inventory control.
• Clinics
• Emergency medical centers – for patient identification and tracking; unit dose prescription labeling; prescription labeling
• Hospitals – Cognitive’s 2” Cxi is the perfect wristband printers capable of holding a large roll and available in a 300 dpi version for superior image quality. Our wristbands provide secure, long-lasting patient identification that won’t fall off, fade, or smudge, even after lengthy admissions or repeated washings and treatments.
• Long-term care and assisted living facilities – for patient tracking via wristband applications; unit dose prescription labeling printing and inventory control. 
• Laboratories – Label printing for blood banks or specimen labels printing. The 300 dpi printhead ensure that the small vial labels with two-dimensional barcodes are clear and readable. 
• University research departments – specimen identification and tracking.
• Pharmaceutical and device manufacturers
• Cart Base Printer – due to its small footprint, these printers are the ideal solution for a mobile cart printing application.  Mount it with or without our battery pack and you will have a complete mobile solution for a full work day.

Hospitality
The Cognitive C Series printer is the perfect solution for printing thermal wristbands because of its large roll capacity, fast print and through-put speed, secure indexing, and compact footprint. The C Series wristband application is great for hospitality markets, such as recreation industries and amusement parks, educational institutions from daycare centers to universities, carnivals and fairs, cinemas, theatres and concerts. The C Series printer offers the following
applications:  

• Admission control
• Crowd management
• Restricted area access
• Age identification 

Manufacturing
From tracking raw materials and improving materials, distribution and logistics planning, to tracking inventory and work in process, the C Series barcode printer improves workflow, increases efficiency, and lowers your total cost of ownership.

• Asset tracking – on demand label printing.  C Series is compact enough that you can position a number of these printers throughout your warehouse to increase productivity and accuracy and eliminate wasteful trips to a large big box batch printer. 
  
  
• Materials and inventory management – C Series is ideal for a pick, pack and ship application.  Mount the C series printer on a cart with a battery pack, connect a barcode scanner to its USB A host port or a keyboard and you have a stand-alone application solution.

• Shipping and receiving – the C Series thermal label printer will perform the job of a typical mid-range printer, printing 4x6 shipping labels but using a of third the space, at half the cost. 

• ERP integration – C Series printers support multiple ERP and Enterprise Legacy interfaces utilizing its advanced architecture. Using off-the-shelf middleware, the C Series is easily configurable to print from various ERP systems, ZPL, EPL and IPL formats and AIDC systems.  

• Warehouse management – No longer a need for big costly printers for WMS application labels.

• Work in process – WIP helps to monitors the complete manufacturing process from receipt of order through to dispatch, eliminating costly errors and bottlenecks. 

Retail Pharmacy
The Cognitive Rx thermal script printer is all about improved workflow, barcode automation and low cost of ownership versus traditional laser printing. The C Series Rx printing solution benefits chain and independent pharmacy operations through:

• Reduced cost of ownership – no toner or expensive label forms
• High speed and high quality script printing
• No adhesive ooze and costly maintenance
• Quiet operation in an unobtrusive and compact footprint
• Easy integration with your workflow and legacy pharmacy system
• PCL 5 / EPL / CPL
• Easy pharmacy software / system integration

Specialty Retail
Although specialty stores vary greatly in size, merchandise, and services, they all face similar challenges.  The C Series printer fits into this environment because of its ability to handle a wide range of media for unique or difficult labeling solutions. 

• Item labels and shelf price marking – Mount the C Series on a cart with a battery pack for mobile printing solutions.
• Return to vendor
• Small item labels such as jewelry tags, butterfly labels, etc.  C Series handles almost any media requirement with fast processing and superior reliability. 

Other Industries

• Education and Libraries
• Government
• Field Services
• Shipping and Logistics
• Transportation (reprint boarding pass, bag tag)