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Feeding/inserting/unscrambling

Reliability key to GE choice of inkjet coders from RSI (sidebar)

Evaluating Bulk Ink Supplies to Drive Down Costs

March 31, 2005

Conveying & accumulation

Reliability key to GE choice of inkjet coders from RSI

Greater productivity from proven technology eliminates coder changeovers that waste time

March 31, 2005

Flexible packaging

The machine factor in flexible packaging

What flexible package designers should know about packaging machinery.

February 28, 2005

Blisters/clamshells/skin packaging

'Virtual label' used on medical packs

A medical device manufacturer is testing replacing its print-and-apply applicators with ‘virtual labels’ created by laser coding technology.

February 28, 2005

Cartoning

Cartesio cartoning concept debuts at Interpack

Cavanna integrates new robotic island into automated flow wrapping and cartoning line.

February 28, 2005

Cartoning

Free Interpack 2005 machinery guide from ELAU

66.7% of survey respondents consider Interpack an important source of information on advanced packaging technologies.

February 28, 2005

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Portable RFID system

MPI Label Systems’ new RFID-on-Wheels system includes an industrial cart, an RFID-enabled thermal-transfer printer, EasyLabel Software, communication cable, and a power strip.

February 28, 2005

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Upgrade printers to smart labels

Now available from Brady is the WavePoint family of RFID printer-encoder solutions.

February 28, 2005

Coding, Printing & Labeling

RFID talent pool needs filling

A new study shows that 80% of companies see a shortage of RFID talent to implement, service, and support the technology, a concern shared by Kimberly-Clark.

February 28, 2005

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Reality refreshes IoPP's RFID meeting

The Institute of Packaging Professionals’ Wisconsin Chapter meeting in February informed attendees that RFID’s potential is enormous, but it’s not likely a packaging panacea.

February 28, 2005

Conveying & accumulation

MSU assesses readability problems

As research at Michigan State University shows, frequency, distances and angles, type of tag, location and orientation, influences of moisture and metals, and pallet patterns all play a part in readability.

February 28, 2005

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Printed RFID tags in development

Motorola’s technology for printed electronics for smart packaging applications includes economical RFID tags.

February 28, 2005