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Coding, Printing & Labeling

Eight ways to improve your coding & marking operations

Follow these actionable tactics to keep your machines up and running. While regular maintenance is important, these eight tips will help ensure you have an efficient line.

January 2, 2016

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Danaher acquires track-and-trace solutions provider Laetus

Change of ownership will significantly enhance Laetus’ growth opportunities through increased scale and access to complementary capabilities.

December 8, 2015

Coding, Printing & Labeling

SATO establishes SpeciaLase technology in Asia-Pacific region

SATO brings the revolutionary laser coding and marking technology to Asia with an exclusive sales agreement.

November 4, 2015

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Print and verify system for UDI regs

As new identification legislation comes into play, medical device makers will need to modify how they code their products. This system is designed to meet their needs.

October 30, 2015

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Printers picked for reliability

Family-owned fresh produce business S&A Group in the U.K. is using Zodiac thermal-transfer overprinters to help reduce packaging costs and increase coding efficiency across its two production sites in Herefordshire and Kent.

October 16, 2015

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

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

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