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Requirements to improve the accuracy and reliability of dispensing pharmaceuticals will help fuel opportunities for direct thermal printing, says Mike Cove, marketing manager, identification products, for Appleton. “In the healthcare industry, new applications are developing in which direct thermal provides the solution for mini bar codes on unit dose drugs to comply with FDA directives and to help automate the prescription filling in a hospital environment, or for prescription documents, eliminating errors due to doctors’ handwriting.”