Direct Printing

The tip of the TubeWriter’s ink pen directly contacts the plastic surface of your labware. Nothing else slows down an experiment like hand-writing tubes or peel and sticking labels.

There are absolutely no adhesives, labels or stickers. Because the ink is the same laboratory-ready ink you currently use, the writing does not come off in boiling water, liquid nitrogen, alcohol, xylene or most other lab environments.

Direct printing is achieved by our patent-pending robotics which conform the writing to the curved or flat surfaces of your labware. No other instrument on the market directly imprints ink.

The TubeWriter and TubeWriter-HT systems are built for the small academic laboratory which needs to identify only 20 1.5mL tubes, and the cell culture facility which needs a robotic-loaded high throughput system for 20,000 cluster tubes.

The TubeWriter also works with ReadyRacks. ReadyRacks are racks of pre-loaded labware. Grab a rack, rip off the protective packaging and print your tubes.

There is no software to learn with the TubeWriter.

Enter your text into Microsoft Excel. Go ahead and use any formulas or copy functions. Press “Load Spreadsheet” and then press “Print Tubes”. The TubeWriter starts printing.

You can save your spreadsheets on your network or a flashdrive. Even better, you can check on your labmates previous work by loading older spreadsheets. And if you manage a lab, make a template spreadsheet to make sure all samples are identified correctly and consistently.