Written by Andy Neat, Product Manager- Marking & Installation

We’ve all had a play with a label maker. Whether it’s labelling the file cabinet, your colleague labelling his/her coffee cup or, in my case, your mother-in-law labelling the containers in her Tupperware cupboard. Most of us have had a minor organisation frenzy with a label maker.

Phoenix Contact is evolving in the world of marking. I’ve been at Phoenix Contact 10 years, of which the last 4 I have been in charge of Marking & Installation (M&I). I think it’s fair to say of all the product ranges we have, M&I have grown the most in variety. The catalogue for M&I has more than doubled in size in 5 years, sitting at a healthy 627 pages of marking and tooling joy…I know this because not only has the MPG of my car gone down with the extra weight in the boot but I also stand slightly off-centre due to my shoulder bag getting heavier.

But anyway, as I say, we’re evolving.

We’ve covered all the stationary printer options with BLUEMARK CLED, THERMOMARK CARD or ROLL (the list goes on) and we’ve conquered the material range availability in the market. We have even shown off by making our biggest seller the THERMOMARK CARD portable and calling it the THERMOMARK PRIME last year, but we hadn’t dabbled in the Hand held market…until now!

Ladies and Gentleman I give you the THERMOFOX! No, not a garden mammal in a fleecy jumper, but a hand held portable printer for the Industrial Electronic market.  Complete with 8 different printable barcodes, 20 storage files and automatic material recognition, you could do a lot worse than having one of these in your toolbox.

The THERMOFOX can print two different styles of terminal marking- shrink sleeve cable marking, cable wrap-arounds and even plastic inserts for silicone cable marker carriers. Not to mention the sticky labels, of course.

But what sets this apart from other handheld printers on the market? Clip Project! Our sophisticated marking software can also be used with the THERMOFOX to create larger print jobs that you can send to the hand held printer in bulk as opposed to typing by hand.  Does that take the mobile element away, though, if you are using a PC? Quite possibly. But you can then save the project on the THERMOFOX for later use. What you can also do is use the THERMOFOX in conjunction with the  new THERMOMARK PRIME- you can create your larger print jobs on the touchscreen of the mobile THERMOMARK PRIME and send them straight over to the THERMOFOX with your bog-standard printer cable. The two do go hand in hand and can be ordered as a set if required.

So the family is complete. Stationary high use printers and now mobile ‘on the go’ printers from Phoenix Contact. In this moment in time there seems to be nothing in a control cabinet that can’t be printed and installed using one of Phoenix Contact’s printers- but I would say that 🙂

Whether it’s a sticky label on a power supply, identification of terminals and cables or even labelling the tin which has your 1mm ferrules inside, you can do it all with the Phoenix Contact handheld printer,  THERMOFOX.

For more information, contact Andy on 07786 252414 or email aneat@phoenixcontact.com