Coding, Printing & Labeling

Three better-faster systems for bag feeding, to labeling/printing and card tip-on

See close-up video footage highlighting the operation of three systems from Kirk-Rudy: bag feeding, labeling and inkjet printing

October 15, 2015

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Adhesives/tape

New hot-melt adhesive system solves glue, nozzle maintenance problems

Get a quick to-the-point tutorial on Jowat-TopTherm hot-melt adhesives for case and carton sealing to see how they overcome problems with clogged nozzles and glue-pot maintenance.

October 15, 2015

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Software ensures top quality bar coding

Watch this short video to see how CoLOS software from Markem-Image interfaces with the printer and camera, and speedily manages quality checks to ensure legible, readable and accurate bar codes.

October 13, 2015

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Digital workflow reshapes carton converting

At the LasX booth was a system that can bring digital workflow and laser cutting to the carton converting process from digital print to digitally driven laser cutting to robotic removal of cartons to a folder/gluer.

October 13, 2015

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Fast-drying MEK inks

Matthews Marking Systems demonstrated MEK ink system printing high-resolution graphics and bar codes onto an OPP substrate. These inks dry in less than a second and adhesion is superb. Viewed as an efficient substitute for thermal transfer overlay printers.

October 12, 2015

Coding, Printing & Labeling

TIJ printer that OEMs will like

M600 OEM digital TIJ printer from Videojet was designed so that other packaging machinery OEMs could easily integrate it into their systems by way of DIN rail mounting. Good for pharma and cosmetics as well as food applications.

October 12, 2015

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Moderately priced shrink sleeve labeler

The R-100 shrink sleeve labeler from PDC International is a small-footprint machine that is moderately priced relative to others on the market. Mandrel-style machine is suitable for beverages and a number of other product categories.

October 8, 2015

Flow wrapping

Flow wrap automated mailer system

From Sealed Air came a flow wrap system designed specifically for the e-commerce and mail order applications that are becoming so increasingly popular. Horizontal in-line bagging system runs at high speeds.

October 8, 2015

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Automated system for mail-order prescriptions

The Script Pack Sprint from Automated Packaging Systems and RX Automation Solutions takes vials of prescription medicine from infeed all the way through to digital printing of paperwork on a Xerox system, insertion of paperwork into a bag, Videojet printing of a label for the bag, Cognex scanning from beginning to end, and application of label onto bag.

October 8, 2015

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Digital printing in CMYK

Digital piezo drop-on-demand printer offers monochrome or full color CMYK printing. Especially suitable for variable-printing requirements, the printer features UV-cured inks and prints on a wide variety of substrates.

October 8, 2015

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Markem-Imaje Mark and Read solution

Markem-Imaje’s CoLOS software and bundled Mark & Read solution ensures a consistently clear, correct and compliant code.

October 7, 2015

Coding, Printing & Labeling

New thermal-transfer printers

Multiple interfaces are standard on the NX Series of thermal-transfer printers from SATO. Both 4- and 6-inch models are available.

October 6, 2015

Coding/marking

Aggregation right through to palletizing

Serialization solution shown by OCS Checkweigher focuses on aggregation of bottles in multilayer cases. Aggregation is finalized when cases go onto a pallet.

October 6, 2015