The publishing house "Higher School" conducted an experiment on book labeling

2025: Digital Printing Labeling Experiment

First Bit, together with the Center for the Development of Advanced Technologies (CRPT), conducted a successful experiment on digital labeling of printed materials at the Higher School publishing house. This was announced by "First Bit" on August 18, 2025.

The work became part of a pilot federal project to label textbooks within the framework of the national Honest Sign system, aimed at ensuring transparency and traceability of products.

Higher School is a publishing company specializing in the production of educational literature. Participation in the experiment made it possible to test digital labeling technologies on a real production line, taking into account the peculiarities of the format of products - books.

We took part in the experiment with interest and made sure that digital labeling technologies, after additional refinement, can be introduced even in the context of the release of printed materials. The tools of the First Bit allow you to organize labeling with high accuracy, error tracking and complete automation of document flow, - commented representatives of the Higher School publishing house.

As part of the experiment, a full cycle of labeling was worked out: from receiving labeling codes from the Prosveshchenie publishing house in CSV format to registering entry into the GISMT. All operations were performed using 1C:ERP 2.5 solutions with BIT.MDT and BIT.IIoT extensions.

The marking scheme on the production line consisted of four stages:

• Printing codes at the thermal preflight station using the TSC MB340T printer, supervisor, operator panel and Hikrobot ID2004 camera
• labeling of product codes using the A-150 applicator;
• serialization and preaggregation via BIT.IIoT streaming aggregation station with Hikrobot ID3016 machine vision camera and culler;
• aggregation into shipping packages and pallets using MINDEO D60 shipping documentation and TSC printers MB340T and TE310.

It was important for us to show that digital labeling is also applicable in the publishing industry. The experiment confirmed the performance of solutions at each stage - from application to aggregation and data transfer to GISMT, - said Ekaterina Nikitina, head of industrial labeling at the Central Office of the First Bit IT integrator.