From its origin in 1969 as an inventor and manufacturer of paper-based data acquisition recorders for aerospace and medical testing, Astro-Med, Inc. grew by focusing its development of digital technology on emerging product applications with a view toward future market positioning. Today, Astro-Med’s products and services serve markets in label printing and packaging, ruggedized airborne printing, data acquisition, sleep diagnostics, and neurological instrumentation.

Astro-Med, Inc. Timeline

2009
QuickLabel Systems introduces new Pronto! barcode label printer family.

Grass Technologies Group Receives FDA Clearance to Market Its Neurotrac® III Neuromonitoring System.

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2008
QuickLabel Systems introduces faster Vivo! digital color label printer.

Astro-Med Test & Measurement releases new high-frequency portable data recorder, DASH 20HF.

Grass Technologies wins contract for sleep systems from Premier, Inc,, the leading hospital purchasing organization in America.

Grass Technologies introduces SleepTrek3 sleep screener for use in home sleep studies.
Astro-Med Test & Measurement wins contract for airborne printers used as part of an in-flight entertainment system on the Boeing 787 Dreamliner aircraft.

Astro-Med Test & Measurement wins contract to provide ruggedized cockpit printers in Bombardier’s new ultra long-range Global Xpress XRS and Global 5000 business jets.

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2007
Grass Technologies releases AURA PSG LITE Sleep Screener for ambulatory use in home and full PSG use inside sleep lab settings.

QuickLabel Systems partners with Hewlett-Packard to introduce the Zeo! inkjet label printer designed to appeal to smaller businesses with photo-quality short-run label printing at lower price point.

Astro-Med Test & Measurement receives FAA Certification as repair station for ruggedized cockpit printers.

Astro-Med Test & Measurement awarded Boeing contract to replace ruggedized cockpit printers used on C-17 Globemaster III military transport aircraft.

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2006
QuickLabel Systems introduces the Vivo!, the first photo-quality, high-speed digital label printer using LED technology designed for use by manufacturers who print short-run packaging in-house.

Grass-Telefactor changes brand name to Grass Technologies to reflect breadth of clinical and research product offerings.

Grass Technologies releases AURA24 ambulatory EEG recorder.

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2005
Boeing awards ruggedized Ethernet switch contract for C-130 aircraft to Astro-Med Test & Measurement as part of Boeing's Avionics Modernization Program (AMP).

Airbus awards airborne digital recorder contract for production testing of A-380 passenger plane to Astro-Med Test & Measurement.

Grass-Telefactor introduces wireless, lightweight PSG system designed to maximize patient comfort in sleep studies.

Grass-Telefactor receives research grant to develop software that detects and warn of impending epileptic seizures from the National Institutes of Health, US Department of Health and Human Services.

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2004
Astro-Med Test & Measurement wins cockpit printer contract for Airbus A-380 passenger plane

Avery Dennison and Astro-Med agree to make Avery Dennison the exclusive worldwide distributor of the QuickLabel Systems line of digital label printers designed for the apparel industry

Boeing awards ruggedized cockpit printer contract for C-130 aircraft to Astro-Med Test & Measurement

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2003
Airbus awards contract to design and build special Everest Data Acquisition Recorders for use in the development of the Airbus A380, the world's largest passenger airplane, to Astro-Med Test & Measurement

National Institute of Health (NIH) awards SBIR research grant to Grass-Telefactor for development of stimulation/amplifier system to facilitate brain mapping for epilepsy resective surgery

QuickLabel Systems introduces advanced process color digital label printer

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2002
Astro-Med Test & Measurement partners with SES GLOBAL to develop a dedicated system for Boeing 376 satellite systems

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2001
Boeing and the US Air Force select Astro-Med's ruggedized cockpit hard copy printer for the Air Force C17 Globemaster cargo airplane

MAGNET awards three-year contract to Grass-Telefactor for EEG and sleep recording systems

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2000
Astro-Med, Inc. receives patent for two-sided color label and tag printing

Astro-Med, Inc. opens manufacturing facility in Frankfurt, Germany to produce label, tag, and thermal transfer ribbon

Astro-Med, Inc. receives patent for printing mechanism that conserves thermal transfer ribbon

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1999
Astro-Med, Inc. acquires Telefactor Corporation, adding long-term epilepsy monitoring instrumentation and software to its existing line of Grass® clinical products

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1998
Astro-Med, Inc. introduces full line of duplex and single-sided color thermal transfer label printers

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1996
Astro-Med, Inc. introduces its first digital EEG System (electroencephalograph)

Astro-Med, Inc. introduces its first digital PSG System (polysomnograph) the Albert Grass Heritage

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1995
Astro-Med, Inc. introduces the first-ever paperless Data Acquisition System

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1994
Astro-Med, Inc. acquires Grass Instruments Company. Originally founded in 1935 by Dr. Albert Grass, the company developed the first commercially successful electroencephalograph (EEG)

Astro-Med, Inc. introduces large-format, portable thermal array data recorder

Astro-Med, Inc. introduces the first-ever digital color thermal transfer label printer

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1991
Astro-Med, Inc. wins $13 million patent infringement lawsuit against Japanese company

Astro-Med, Inc. introduces first wide-format thermal array recorder with full width LCD display

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1987
Astro-Med, Inc. introduces the first-ever wide format thermal array recorder

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1986
Astro-Med, Inc. shocks the industry by introducing the first-ever end user thermal array recorder

Astro-Med, Inc. releases one of the first-ever bar code label printers using thermal transfer technology, licensed to a major OEM partner in the apparel industry

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1984
Atlan-Tol divests all businesses except for Astro-Med, into which it merges, and officially changes its name to Astro-Med Inc

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1983
Atlan-Tol incorporates Astro-Med as a wholly owned subsidiary and sells 20% of Astro-Med’s stock to the public. Astro-Med is listed on Nasdaq stock exchange

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1975
Atlan-Tol’s Astro-Med Division introduces first series of data acquisition recorders

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1973
Atlan-Tol makes public offering, is listed on the Boston Stock Exchange

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1971
Atlan-Tol establishes a subsidiary called Astro-Med to produce and sell data acquisition recorders which print onto rolls of chart paper using thermal print technology

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1969
Company is founded as Atlan-Tol, manufactures industrial tools

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