The whole Monarch 1130 gun series are some of the most easy to load pricing guns on the market. Follow these simple instructions and within two minutes from now, you’ll be printing the Monarch labels you need. As you read these Monarch price gun instructions, if you have any questions, please give us a call at 1-800-346-7820. All new Monarch 1131 price guns from B&B Supply come boxed with loading instructions.

The Monarch 1131 price gun has two black latches on each side of the gun. Start by sliding the latches back and opening the cover completely until you hear a click and it’s locked in the open position. Take your roll of Monarch 1131 labels and tear off the first ten inches (about 25 labels) and discard. This will remove the adhesive that bonds the roll together and eliminates the possibility of that glue jamming up the gun. Next, place the roll between the light gray holders with the price labels coming off the top of the roll. Pull the labels across the gun and drape them over the metal peel bar at the front of the gun. You should have about six inches of labels hanging loosely over the peel bar. Keep the labels centered over the peel bar and close the cover. Peel all the labels off the backing paper. (You want to have only backing paper going through the bottom of the gun and getting grabbed by the feedwheel). Hold the Monarch 1131 pricing gun in front of your face as if you were going to label your forehead and take hold of the loose backing paper and insert it just above the plastic handle. You should see two black arrows pointing into the gun. Feed the paper in until you feel resistance and start clicking the hand trigger. This will activate the feedwheel and it should start grabbing the paper. Click the hand trigger about eight times and you should start getting printed pricing labels.

Loading the Monarch 1110 labels into a Monarch 1110 is a process that may seem complex, but only takes a few steps complete and a few times to master. Follow this Monarch 1110 instructions guide and you’ll be back in business in no time. I would like to say that all new Monarch 1110 guns from reputable dealers do come with loading instructions included in the box. If you have just purchased an Monarch 1110 gun and instructions were not included with it, you may want to call the seller and ask why. All the Monarch 1110 guns we sell at B&B Supply have easy to follow loading instructions included.

Start by first tearing off the first 12 or so labels from the label roll. This will insure that the adhesive used to hold the first label to the roll will not get exposed to the inner workings of the gun. The adhesive could lead to a label jam in the future. Then snap the roll of Monarch 1110 labels into the back of the gun between the hubs. You want the labels to come off the top of the roll. Next pull and hold the hand trigger about half way. Pulling the hand trigger disengages the brake wheel and allows you to slide the label strip through the gun. Insert the label strip into the gun by basically following the plastic avenue you see. The Monarch 1110 labels should start to come out the front of the gun. Continue feeding until you have about eight inches hanging out of the front and release the hand trigger. Next, feed the label strip up under the black plastic plate in the front of the gun. The labels should start to come out the top of the gun by the application roller.

Once you have two labels coming out, squeeze the hand trigger half way again and rewind the roll of labels so the loop of labels is removed in the front of the gun and the labels are tightened up. Then grasp the two labels in the front of the gun and quickly pull the strip downward toward the hand trigger. This process will remove the labels from the backing paper. You will want to have about seven inches of just the backing paper now. Hold the Monarch price gun upside down and squeeze the hand trigger all the way exposing the feedwheel. Feed the backing paper into the slot with the arrow until you feel tension from the feedwheel. Start squeezing the hand trigger several times to tighten up the paper. If the wheel does not grab the backing paper right away, keep feeding it into it. Turn the gun right side up after the backing paper first grabs. After about six or seven clicks, printed labels should start coming out the front of the gun. Try to always make sure that only backing empty backing paper (with no labels) travels down the gun and gets grabbed by the feedwheel and goes out the back of the gun. Jamming could result if labels are pulled through the feedwheel.

There are some proven competitive advantages that can be had from price marking items using a pricing gun and pricing labels.

If you use a sale price, regular price our price, special, or sale, two line pricing label the customer is reminded how much they saved every time they see their product while in your store as they continue to shop. The visual reminder continues even once the customer leaves the store for as long as the label remains on the product. The longer a customer can equate savings with your store, the better the chances for more continued repeat business. Some popular two line guns that offer these types of labels are the Monarch 1136 price guns, the Monarch 1115 price guns, Garvey price gun model 22 8/8, and the Towa price gun Samurai. The stock Monarch 1115 price labels offer all the options listed in the top line of this paragraph. Monarch and Garvey stock a wide variety of pricing labels.

Using custom printed labeling is another advantage that helps to serve as a visual reminder as well. Please click here to read more about custom price marking.

Store owners who price mark can score points with customers who want to see the prices of all their items during their entire shop. Typically, older people appreciate this a bit more than younger because they grew up with it more. Those customers with bad eyesight are able to see the prices better if they can bring the items closer to them. A few popular, simple to use choices for easy price marking are the Garvey guns 18-6 and 22-6, the Monarch 1110 gun, Monarch 1131 price gun, and the Meto label gun models 6.22 and 8.26.

Promotional price labeling has helpful elements that catch the customer’s eye. These types of pricing labels are typically larger, have wavy or serrated label designs, and have attention getting preprinted wording such as SAVE! or SPECIAL. The promotional pricing guns print large, bold numbers. The Monarch 1138, 1151, 1152, and the Meto label gun model 18.32 are popular choices.

Pricing guns are offered with a variety of different band options. A band option is the configuration of the characters that the print head of the gun will mark on the pricing label. A date and time coding band option is popular for identifying food, receivables, and medical supplies. This blog post will focus on the medical industry.

Medical labs use hand held labelers to label bottles and packages that can contain an infinite number of contents. Vials of blood, physical body parts, chemicals, and sterilized or non sterilized instruments are just a few examples of items that need coded and identified. The storage of items in medical labs can often be in freezers or extreme environments. Freezer and permanent grade adhesives are sometime necessary to insure the label will adhere and remain on the item. Custom price labels are very popular with medical applications. Preprinted wording and/or symbols help to classify the item. Then the user prints the date and time code to easily identify the item.

Some of our popular one line date/time hand held pricing guns are the Monarch 1131 price guns with the 04 band option, the Garvey 22-8 with the 1808 band option, and the Meto 2600 series gun model 10.26 with the date/time band. Two and three line pricing guns tend to be very popular guns in the medical field due to the need of printing more information on the label. The most popular two line gun for marking a date and time code are the Monarch 1136 price guns with the 04 band option. This gun is sometimes called the Monarch Paxar 1136. It’s the same gun; Paxar used to own the Monarch brand. There are many other options from the brands listed above as well as brands such as XL Pro, Sato and Towa price guns that work very well in the majority of medical applications.

Every application is unique and some may not require a date/time code, but the user would prefer to mark an inspector’s initials or name on a label. This would require a label gun with an alpha band to mark letters. Please take a look through our website pricegunstore.com and give us a call if you would like to discuss your specific application. We can make recommendations and show you samples of different options to find what will work best for you.

For users of the Primark L-14 and L-24 pricing guns – we would like to inform you that these tools have been discontinued. If you have labels still in stock for the old L-14 gun, you don’t need to worry because the P-14 pricing labels are the same. The L-24 however, uses a different label then the P-16. To order a new Primark P-14 gun, click here, or for P-14 labels, click here. Click here to order the P-16 price gun and click here for P-16 labels.