Tag Gun

A tag gun kit is only useful if it arrives with everything required to begin work — a gun body without needles or barbs requires additional purchases before any tagging can take place, and sourcing compatible consumables separately adds cost and delay. This kit includes the QIDA FS-5S tag gun body, five thick needles, and 1,000 standard barb fasteners in a single purchase, so tagging can begin immediately on receipt. The 1,000-barb supply is a meaningful quantity for the use cases this gun is designed for: at a rate of 100 labels per day, the included barbs represent a 10-day supply — sufficient for a market trading session, a stock intake run, or a seasonal repricing exercise without needing to reorder consumables mid-task. Additional barb refills in standard sizes are widely available and compatible with the FS-5S when the included supply is exhausted.

Tag gun needles are the component most likely to fail under sustained use — a thin or poorly hardened needle bends or snaps when pushed through heavier fabric, thick card swing tags, or multiple layers of material, and a bent needle produces misaligned or incomplete barb attachment that leaves tags loose or detached from the product. The FS-5S uses thick-gauge needles that are designed to penetrate a wider range of fabric weights and tag card thicknesses without deforming under repeated use. Five needles are included rather than one, which means the kit has replacement capacity built in — if a needle is damaged, a replacement is immediately available without ordering separately. For high-volume tagging sessions where the gun is in continuous use for an extended period, the availability of spare needles removes a common point of workflow interruption.

A tag gun attaches labels by inserting a plastic barb fastener through the fabric or tag card with a single trigger pull — the barb passes through the material and locks in place on the other side, securing the tag without requiring adhesive, wire, or a separate fastening step. The speed advantage over manual label attachment methods (safety pins, wire loops, adhesive labels) becomes significant at volume: a well-functioning tag gun can attach a label in under two seconds per item, versus ten to thirty seconds for manual methods, which represents a meaningful time saving across a batch of fifty or more items. The FS-5S is designed to produce consistent, clean attachment across this range of applications without misfeeds or barb jams that interrupt the workflow — the combination of a quality gun body and thick needles produces a reliable result across a sustained tagging session.

The tag gun is the standard tool for label attachment in clothing retail, market trading, and small business stock management — the use cases where labels need to be attached to a significant number of items quickly, consistently, and without the per-item cost of adhesive labels or the labour cost of manual fastening methods. For a clothing retailer receiving a new stock delivery, a tag gun allows price tags and brand swing tags to be attached to every item before the stock goes to the floor — a task that would take several times longer with manual methods. For a market trader preparing stock the evening before a trading day, the same efficiency advantage applies. The 1,000-barb supply included in this kit is scaled to this kind of use: it is enough to complete a substantial stock run without running out mid-session, while being compact enough to store alongside the gun in a small bag or kit box.