Print directly onto tissue and biopsy cassettes to increase efficiency, enhance patient safety
Signature Cassette Printer is designed for use in cytology, pathology and histology labs to print high-resolution text, graphics and bar codes directly onto tissue cassettes. That eliminates handwriting or expensive and difficult-to-apply labels and makes the lab workflow more efficient while increasing patient safety. As the cassette printer supports full-colour and black printing with UV-and chemical-resistant ink, only white cassettes need to be stored. That leads to significant cost reduction.
The Signature Cassette Printer is available in two versions: The SCP-M is the stand-alone, manual printer, loading one cassette at a time by the operator. Print speed is fast, at about six seconds per cassette.
The SCP-R is a completely automated system consisting of a printer and a new upgraded robotic picking system called Autoloader EVO, enabling in addition the use of Sakura Paraform Cassettes. Up to 160 cassettes are automatically loaded by the robotic. Print speed is fast, at about eight seconds per cassette. Labs can first purchase a manual printer and later upgrade that printer with robotics to make it a completely automated system. The same SCP-M printer is simply placed on top of the robotics module and connected via a USB cable.
Unlike other similar printers, Signature Cassette Printer utilises thermal transfer ink ribbons instead of solvent inkjet or laser ablation. There are many advantages to thermal transfer inks, including:
- Virtually silent while printing
- No smell or smoke
- Unlike laser, does not require proprietary cassettes and no fume removal system is required
- No ink tanks or print heads that dry out, need maintenance and have short expiration dates
- Crisp, clear text, graphics and bar codes that won’t smear or rub off during or
after processing - The ability to print colour on white cassettes, eliminating the need for coloured cassettes
- Significantly lower acquisition cost than competitive units
Primera’s PTLab SE Software, a user-friendly and easy-to-learn program, is included with every printer. Templates can be designed that define the required information on slides or cassettes including fixed and variable fields. Information contained in 2D bar code on the vial or other containers is automatically printed on a number of cassettes that have been ordered for each study. For full integration into existing laboratory information systems, PTLab PE is available as an option.
Together with Signature Slide Printer, Signature Cassette Printer and PTLab Software, DTM Medical provides an advanced and complete labelling solution – all from a single source. Signature printers offer a new and better way for laboratories as well as medical, education and research organizations to process and manage slides and cassettes.
By placing a cassette printer at each grossing station and a slide printer at each microtome station the labs’ efficiency is significantly increased while the risk of specimen misidentification is reduced or even eliminated. Labs can certainly afford and cost-justify to do so as the Signature printers cost less than all other monochrome-only slide and cassette printers currently available.
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Contact details:
DTM Medical
Mainzer Str. 131
65187 Wiesbaden, Germany
Tel. +49 611 92777-0
Email: vertrieb@dtm-medical.eu
