The PE100 is a compact design and is ideal for laboratories with lower punching throughput, especially where the test scenario is limited to punching one or two disks from each blood or saliva spot. It provides a low cost means to upgrade from manual hand punching to reduce physical stress and preparation time and to introduce automatic sample tracking. Alternately the PE100 provides a cost effective solution for processing repeats or ancillary samples, as sideline to a higher capacity process.