Storage Media Barcode Labels

XMA has one of the UK's premier facilities to label data storage media tapes at our facility in Reading.

No other organisation offers a faster turnaround to their customer base, with delivery times of 48 working hours assuring customer the best service in the industry.  We can also bespoke the ranges to any sequence and/or colour variety required.  If needed we can also manage your label ranges to ensure no duplication takes place.  Labels can also be supplied overnight directly to you for you to affix to your media.

Label quality is critical to data management and in many ways represents one of the most important components of any media library.  XMA supplies all of the 7 key varieties of data storage labels :- 3480/3490/3590/3590E/9840/9940 3592/3592E T10K DLT3/DLT4/SDLT1/SDLT2/S4 LTO1/LTO2/LTO3/LTO4 4mm/8mm/SAIT Magneto Optical.

There are many reasons why you should partner with XMA for your storage solutions:

• With a stockholding of over £1.5m worth of storage media cartridges, you can be assured that XMA has the stock when and where you need it.
• After the upgrade to our HEPA, Class 10,000 clean room in 2007 we have the ability to label over 100,000 data tapes per month in the perfect environmental conditions.
• With over 40 years of experience in this arena we absolutely understand the importance of getting your media delivered on time and correctly labelled.
• XMA supplies both EDP Tri-Optic & NETc labels, they are considered to be the leading label suppliers in the industry.

For further details on the labelling solution, take a look at the anatomy of a label below:

Barcode: A bar code consists of varying width parallel bars and spaces. Pre determined width patterns are used to represent actual data in the symbol.
Code 39 (3 of 9): code 39 was the first alphanumeric symbol to be developed and it is widely used today. It is a discrete, self checking variable length symbol that has five bars and four spaces making a total of 9 elements. Of these nine, three are wide and six are narrow, making 39 a two-width code.
Modified Barcode: This is the alteration of the bar code, either the sequence of the characters or addition of characters, such as checksum . 
Checksum Character: a character included within a string of data whose value is used for the purpose of performing a mathematical check to ensure the accuracy of the data
Sequence: The consecutive series of numbers and alpha characters that make up a set of labels, the last 2-3 digits usually beginning with 00 or 000 and ending in 99 or 999. (ABC000-ABC999) 
Quiet Zone: The clear space containing no dark marks that precedes the start character of a bar code symbol and follows the stop character. 

Media Identifier: One or more of the characters used to uniquely identify the type of media. Used by some library systems to differentiate between generations of media, such as l2="Generation" 2 of LTO Ultrium, l3="Generation" 3 of LTO Ultrium.