See the Rx-4 in Action
What Hand-Counting Really Costs
Time
Every prescription counted by hand is minutes a licensed professional spends on something a machine can do. Multiply that by a day, then by a year.
Consistency
Hand counts vary with fatigue, interruptions, and end-of-shift pressure. A machine counts the same way at four in the afternoon as it did at nine in the morning.
Handling
Every hand count puts fingers, a tray, and a spatula in contact with a patient’s medication. The Rx-4 removes the contact entirely.
Five Reasons People Choose the Rx-4
Anyone on Staff Can Run it
There is nothing to set up and nothing to learn. Pour, enter the number, press start. New staff are running it correctly on their first shift, without a training session and without the manual.
It Fills the Vial
Attach the vial drawer and the counted quantity goes straight into the bottle. There is no collection tray to empty and no transfer step where a count can go wrong.
No Calibration Needed
Weight-based counters drift and need recalibrating on a schedule. The Rx-4 counts optically, so there is nothing to calibrate and nothing to drift.
It Runs Without You
Enter the quantity, press start, and go do something else. Most competing counters need someone standing over them, feeding them through by hand for the length of the count.
Three Modes, Not One
Fill a single vial, pre-pack a run of identical vials, or count an entire inventory. Most machines at this price only do one of those three things.
Three Steps, Start to Finish. That Is the Whole Thing.
1. Pour
Put any quantity of tablets, capsules, or most soft-gels onto the turntable.
2. Set
Choose your counting mode and enter the quantity on the keypad.
3. Start
The counted quantity goes into the vial or the collection drawer. Everything left over returns to inventory automatically.
That is the entire operation. There are no menus to navigate, no settings to get wrong, and nothing to calibrate before you start.
Built for the Places That Count Every Day
Fill prescriptions and pre-pack refills without tying up a technician all afternoon.
Dispense multi-month refills in minutes, from a counter where space is already tight.
Consistent counts for floor stock and unit-dose prep, with nothing to calibrate.
Dispense on site and hand the patient a filled vial before they leave.
Teach dispensing on the same equipment students will use in practice.
Count recovered or seized medication accurately, the same way every time.
A 7-pound counter available in both 110-volt and 220-volt models.
Verify controlled medication inventory at every shift change.
Check incoming and outgoing quantities without slowing the line.
Quality-control counts and packaging verification at up to 500 per minute.
Inventory medication left behind, quickly and on the record.
Dispense on site and hand the patient a filled vial before they leave.
How the Rx-4 Compares
There are only a handful of countertop tablet and capsule counters worth considering. Here is how the Rx-4 compares on the things that matter day to day.
| Rx-4 | Kirby Lester KL1 | GSE Eyecon | Pharmacy scale | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| How it counts | Turntable past an infrared sensor | Poured through a chute by hand | Camera and machine vision | By weight |
| Fills the vial directly | Yes | No | No | No |
| Runs unattended | Yes | No | No | No |
| Needs calibration | No | No | No | Yes, regularly |
| Counting modes | Single, multiple, inventory | One | One | One |
| Connects to pharmacy software | No | Varies | Yes | Yes |
| Relative price | Lowest | Higher | Highest | Varies |
What Customers Say
The Rx-4 is a game changer. Its compact design fits on any countertop, but do not be fooled by the size. Whether we are filling single vials, filling multiple vials, or running an inventory count, it handles all of it, and it is always spot-on accurate.
Managing Director, Glendale, CA
Counting by hand is a time drain and a resource drain. Now hundreds of tablets are counted in a few short minutes. Patients are always impressed by how quickly we can dispense several months of medication.
Physician, Ann Arbor, MI
One of our units was having trouble moving the counting plate. I called Rx Count and they diagnosed it immediately and sent the parts. They arrived within a couple of days, and swapping them out took a few minutes.
Veterinarian, Norristown, PA
Price and What Is Included
Made in America Since 1967
Rx Count Corporation has built tablet and capsule counters in the United States for more than fifty years, and we still build them in Irvine, California.
Every Rx-4 comes with a one-year warranty on parts and labor and a 30-day money-back guarantee. If something goes wrong after that, you call us and reach someone who can diagnose the problem and put a part in the mail the same day.
