Abstract: In one form of the invention, an electronic scale transmits data responsive to the weight of an article on the scale to a driver or control unit which activates selected segments of a digital printer to project those segments beyond the face of the printer for inking and subsequently applying indicia to the article showing its weight. Also, visual display means may be provided with the electronic scale. The digital segments are activated simultaneously by a switch on the portable printer and remain in extended locked position until the switch is subsequently closed to activate the printer to release those segments which have been extended and to extend segments indicative of a new weight on the scale. In a second form of the invention, an electronic scale activates a stationary printer which sequentially extends and retracts the segments for each digit to be printed onto a box which has been previously been weighed.