Solutions
Services
Vantage ID offers experienced end to end support. From needs assessments and RFID site surveys to post-deployment support like ongoing training and printer repairs, we’re here to help.
Continuous improvement
RFID Site Surveys
Procurement
Project Management
Print Lab
Technical Support

Continuous Improvement
Ready to improve your efficiency and accuracy? We are. Our experienced team is standing by, ready to automate and improve your barcoding and RFID processes, equipment and supplies.
Needs Assessment
Our team helps you meet new productivity, customer, and compliance requirements. We’ll develop a plan tailored to your unique needs.
We often implement warehouse management and asset tracking systems, convert 1D to 2D, assess the ROI of RFID, and help migrate OS and green screens.
Solving track and trace challenges in cold, wet, outdoor, and chemical environments is our specialty.
Automation and Integration
You already know you can automate manual processes by leveraging technologies, system integration tools, and best practices. The challenge is figuring out how to fit all the pieces together.
Vantage ID will help improve your efficiency and accuracy with our warehouse management, inventory control, asset tracking, or custom data collection systems. By streamlining label change control and archiving we can even help you simplify compliance. How’d you like to print labels directly from your ERP system? We can do that, too.
Let Vantage ID help ensure the success of your project by providing needs assessment, pilot testing, procurement, implementation, data migration, and support.
Warehouse Walk-Throughs
The Vantage ID Pizza Guarantee: if our team can’t find productivity improvements by walking through your warehouse, we’ll buy your team pizza. Although we’ll probably do it anyway, but it’s fun having a pizza guarantee.
Because we support and use every product we sell, we can yield significant time savings just by asking questions and making small adjustments. Label selection, printer settings, increased roll size, use of color, cutters, and rewinders all add up. Hardware investments often include selecting a better printer for the application, improving mobility with Newcastle carts and updating to faster, more intuitive and rugged scanning devices.
Vantage ID helps you figure out what you have, where you have it, and how it’s working for you.
Most companies don’t even realize they use a variety of printer makes and models in their different departments and business units. Often they are not using the ideal hardware for the application, or an outdated, obsolete model.
We’ll help you future-proof and standardize while taking advantage of company wide discounts and trade-in rebates.
Label Assessments
In our free label assessments, we’ll find the savings that are always hidden in your consumables.
Unless you have a relationship with an advanced supplies expert like Vantage ID, your media selections are likely outdated and costing you money. Most companies don’t revisit label and ribbon choices until there’s a new project, new customer, or an expensive problem. Yet products come out every year, offering new ways to save money and solve existing challenges.
We go beyond offering free printhead programs – we help you optimize your supplies to support your business processes. During our assessment we’ll ask questions about the processes your labels support, inspect hardware, and gather samples along the way… all at no cost to you.
By optimizing your printer, media, and settings choices, you can improve scanning rates and make expensive printheads last longer. Consolidate multiple labels from different vendors into a standardized set to simplify inventory and achieve better pricing. We’ll look for cost-effective ways to use color as a time-saving visual cue.
Most companies spend 3 to 10 times more on their media than their printers each and every year. That’s why we recommend a supplies review every three years.

RFID Site Surveys
Site surveys are needed to ensure RFID compatibility and determine the type of RFID hardware, software, and consumables required. Our team will carefully plan the best locations and quantities for readers and antennae before procurement and installation.
RFID solutions and budgets are not one size fits all.
There are many considerations beyond the cost of a tag. Every facility and every application is different. Radio waves don’t travel the same distance in all directions, and many factors can make them unpredictable. These obstacles are often hidden behind walls, corners, doors, or ventilation shafts.
With the support of our manufacturer’s RFID engineers, Vantage ID performs a physical survey to detect and overcome all possible sources of interference. We’ll consider power supply, mounting options, and network connectivity for cabling and integration requirements. The appropriate tag, how the label will be applied, and where it will be consistently applied on the item are important decisions for reliable tag scanning.
After providing thorough documentation and a detailed budget, a pilot test under live working conditions is conducted. That means you’ll be sure everything works as intended prior to large scale deployment.

Procurement
We have the experience and partnerships to meet all your procurement requirements.
Unlike other resellers that simply submit bids or ship boxes, we support and test every product we sell. Our hands-on experience means you’ll get the pre-sale technical support you need for product demos and pilot tests.
Beyond best pricing discounts, technical resources, trade-in rebates, exclusive products, and extended warranties, our relationships with top industry manufacturers and distributors also give you access to deal registration discounts, pilot testing, device configuration, and additional shipping options like blanket orders.
Vantage ID knows how to navigate contract vehicles and meet compliance requirements.
We have both teaming experience and multiple socio-economic certifications: CA essential, small, minority, woman-owned business. We’ll help you achieve additional compliance like security and memory requirements, and classify items properly in your systems.

Project Management
You need effective project management in order to have successful deployments and hit ROI goals within your budget and deadlines.
Vantage ID works with many different types of customers, from fast-growing startups, decades old family businesses, to large publicly held corporations. Some of our customers just don’t have the resources or bandwidth needed to manage a complex project and schedule.
We can provide experienced oversight to help reach your time, quality, and budget goals.

Print Lab
You’ve got more to worry about than labels. That’s why our Print Lab is so popular. And, we’re constantly expanding our services to make your life easier. Just ask.
Outsource Label Design, Setup and Serialized Printing
We print labels with low minimums, high quality, and fast turnaround at reasonable prices.
Whether you need all your printing outsourced or simply an extra resource for specialized projects, busy seasons, or when printers are down, we’ll get your labels imprinted at a fraction of the cost and time needed to generate the labels yourself. We print labels with low minimums, high quality, and fast turnaround at reasonable prices.
When a new client, vendor, product, or project requires a new label format or data, we can help.
You don’t have to figure out how to use label design software, hardware, or make a bunch of choices. We’ll format the label for you and serialize any data such as 1D and 2D barcodes, text, sequential numbers, expiration dates, etc.
Why buy a full printer solution and software for a small quantity of labels you need only a few times a year? We have best-in-class printers ranging in size, dpi, and print speed with label rewinders, cutters, and peelers for short-run or high-volume jobs.
RFID Encoding and Printing
The “Life” of an RFID tag begins with encoding… otherwise it’s just a random tag without data or context. With RFID, you can store and access a tremendous amount of information in a tiny tag, and update it easily.
The simplest scenario encodes a random number to the tag and associates that random number to relevant information in a database.
More complex situations might require encoding a custom number, identifier, or even coding scheme linked to your internal system or a standardized industry-wide system. High memory tags are available for when you need to access a large amount of data, even in difficult environments.
Whether you need to store a small amount of general information, or very specific info requiring high memory tags, we can encode your data to your RFID tag’s memory.
It’s also very common to print numbers, barcodes, and human-readable information on RFID inlays, labels, or hard tags.
Feel confident you can delegate encoding and printing to Vantage ID for pilot testing and full-scale deployments.
Testing and Optimization
Thermal and RFID technologies often require testing combinations of hardware settings, configurations, and media to achieve desired outcomes.
You can trust us to test scenarios for you, at your site or in our print lab. For example, your requirement might be within a label or printer specification, but close to its upper limits. Or, you want to reduce consumable expenses by changing to direct thermal but are worried about lower scan rates and increased printhead costs.
We know how to optimize heat settings, dpi resolution, printer speed, and ribbon sizes.
Plus, Vantage ID is a product beta-tester for multiple industry leaders. Our techs are armed with up-to-the-minute information on new technologies, keeping you one step ahead of your competitors.
Kitting, Device Configuration
Save time getting started.
Together with our manufacturer and distributor partners, we can help you configure your mobile computers, tablets, and other hardware with your firmware, software, accessories, connectivity requirements, and more.
Your end-users can open the box, turn their devices on, and get working right away.
For example, Zebra offers Device Commissioning Services as part of their Zebra OneCareTM programs. Devices are delivered ready-to-go when they are repaired or replaced. They’ll reload settings, software applications, and accessories to get you up and running with less downtime.
Advanced commissioning services can set up the defined user groups or attributes, pair with 3rd party accessories, and apply customer or site specific asset tags or serial numbers. Minimum quantities and other requirements apply.

Technical Support
When your equipment goes down, your business stops.
Vantage ID’s certified technicians will get you back up and running with honest advice and manufacturer authorized repairs. We quickly fix or replace OEM parts like printheads, platen rollers, and more.
In addition to emergency repairs, we offer preventative maintenance, service contracts, depot services, and extended warranties. And when your label printing can’t wait for a part, use our Print Lab’s on-demand printing service to keep your business running.
Our technical support doesn’t only kick in after you have an equipment issue. We can provide custom installation services to make sure your new equipment fits seamlessly into your system.
You don’t need to figure it all out on your own… we’ll even train your team on how to use new hardware, properly load media, and navigate your label software. Once things are running smoothly, we’re here to help troubleshoot any issues that come up.
This is what makes us so different. We don’t just provide you with the right equipment at the best prices, we’ve got your back. Just ask.