Nearly one year ago, food manufacturer and co-packer Casa de Oro Foods was experiencing difficulties with ink-jet date coding its tortilla bags and taco-shell cartons. According to Seth Yoder, plant manager at Louisville, KY-based Casa de Oro, illegibility of the code was a major problem. “Often the ink wouldn’t dry quickly enough, so when one bag of tortillas would fall on the other one, the impression of ink would smear onto the other bag,” he says.
“We’d had problems with the [previous coder] as far as reliability and user-friendliness of the programming. We also had a lot of downtime with that equipment,” due to difficulty in programming and changing out ink, adds Shaun Showalter, plant superintendent. “We thought there had to be better printers out there than what we had.”
