Philabundance Re-Labels Food Donations for 65,000 people per week Using QuickLabel Systems' Pronto! 486 Barcode Printer QuickLabel Systems

WEST WARWICK, RI – December 27, 2011 -- QuickLabel Systems, a brand of Astro-Med, Inc. (NASDAQ:ALOT), recently released a video that depicts how the Pronto! 486 digital label printer has helped Philabundance, a non-profit hunger relief organization, to streamline its high volume food re-packaging process. The new video can be viewed on the QuickLabel Systems website, blog, or on QuickLabel’s YouTube channel at Youtube.com/QuickLabel.

Philabundance Prints Labels with the Pronto!

Philabundance has relied on the Pronto! 486 barcode label printer to streamline its bulk food re-packaging operation. Philabundance has such a high volume of donations coming in that they needed a quick solution to up the ante in their packaging process.

“Primarily for high-volume labeling, the Pronto! helps keep up. The operation goes pretty fast, it’s pretty big, we needed a high demand, high volume label printer. The way the food comes of the line, the way the boxes gets packed, we need something that keeps up and the Pronto! 486 has been a great help in fulfilling our production and keeping our volume high,” said Sr. RePack Manager Jonathan Miller.

“We love using it. We’re using the Pronto! to package our individual goods and bulk items.”

Re-Packing Donations to Beet Hunger

Each day Miller and his team use their QuickLabel Pronto! barcode printer to print an average of 2,500 labels. The Pronto! labels are then placed on the sides of repacked food boxes in the “repacking phase” of the Philabundance production line.

Food that is donated to Philabundance goes through a production line where it is sorted by food type (i.e. baking goods vs. crackers). Once the food is sorted by type, it is packed into boxes, weighed, and labeled with a Pronto!-printed label.

This repacking system makes the shipping, packaging, and inventory process much easier and more efficient for Philabundance. “The Pronto! definitely has been a life saver for our organization,” said Miller. “If you want to streamline your operation, cut down on your downtime, and really be able to improve the look of your product, then a Pronto! 486 is the printer for you.”

If you would like to help Philabundance fight hunger by volunteering your time, by donating food items, or by contributing money, you can do so by visiting their website: www.Philabundance.org