Zebra® Card Printer Solutions Partners with Zetes Blackbird to support expansion in Ireland

 
October 31 2006—Zebra Card Printer Solutions today announced a partnership with systems integrator Zetes Blackbird to support growing demand for its card printers in Ireland.

Zetes Blackbird, already a distributor for the Zebra Barcode Printer range, has a longstanding reputation for using barcode, scanning, printing and networking technologies to help its customers realise the benefits of supply chain optimisation.

Barry Long, Zetes Blackbird Sales Manager for Ireland, said: “Zebra card printers are robust, versatile, and offer good value for money whilst providing an exceptional quality plastic card printing solution. There is huge opportunity for these products in the region and Zetes Blackbird is in the very best position to take this technology to market.”

Commenting on the new partnership, John Timman, Director of Sales EMEA, of Zebra Card Printer Solutions, said: John Timman, Director of Sales EMEA, of Zebra Card Printer Solutions, said: “As the card printer market rapidly develops, the company will continue to work with focused partners who help us meet demand. Zetes Blackbird has a proven ability to serve the Irish market and we look forward to our successful partnership.”


About Zebra Card Printer Solutions
A world leader in desktop card printers, Zebra Card Printer Solutions is a division of Zebra Technologies Corporation, which delivers innovative and reliable on-demand printing solutions to businesses and governments in 100 countries around the world. A broad range of applications benefit from Zebra brand thermal barcode label and receipt printers and plastic card printers (formerly branded Eltron®), resulting in enhanced security, increased productivity, improved quality, lower costs and better customer service. Information about Zebra card printers can be found at www.zebracard.com. Information about Zebra Technologies can be found at www.zebra.com.

About Zetes
Zetes (Euronext Brussels: ZTS), established in 1984, is a leading Pan-European system integrator offering value-added solutions in the Automatic Identification industry (Auto-ID) for Goods ID and for People ID. These solutions use both emerging and mature technologies (barcode, voice recognition, RFID, smartcards, biometrics) to optimise the business performance of many private and public customers in many market segments. Zetes’ solutions are implemented in various sectors of activity: industry, transportation, logistics, distribution, healthcare, finance, telecommunication, government and public services.

The Zetes group has its headquarters in Brussels, with subsidiaries in Belgium, Germany, France, Ireland, Israel, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain and the UK. Zetes currently employs 455 employees and generated consolidated revenues of €139.5 million in 2005.

More info: www.zetes.com


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Zebra Technologies Corporation
Card Printer Solutions
Trade Media, U.S.:
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+1 818 716 9021
lbrigham@brighamscully.com
Trade Media, EMEA:
Paul Smith - PSPR
+1 847 793 6735
paul@ps-pr.co.uk
Trade Media, Asia Pacific:
Richard Besenbruch
+65 6858 0722
rbesenbruch@zebra.com

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