As a vital partner in our Total Product ID Management portfolio, Sato provides state of the art thermal transfer printing technology that we strongly endorse. The Nortec Group and Sato have close relations that afford us the ability to pair our technologies together to provide the highest quality and the most efficient solutions to our customers. Of course, we have label materials and ribbons that are compliant with all major printer manufacturers but we will always recommend Sato when given the opportunity.

SATO is a pioneer in the AIDC industry and is the inventor of the world's first electronic thermal transfer barcode printer. It also revolutionized the barcoding industry by introducing the DCS and Labeling concept – a total data capture, collection and labeling solutions approach providing high quality barcode printers, RFID solutions, scanners/hand held terminals, label design software, and consumables. It is also the first company to introduce the industry’s first, complete, multi-protocol EPC-compliant UHF RFID Solutions.