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Digital Design inkjet puts high-quality codes on rough surface amid dirt and dust

Digital Design Evolution printer uses HP technology to precisely place tiny codes on ceramic tiles that zip by at 220 per minute.

If anyone questions the ability of thermal inkjet to work in tough hostile industrial environments then they need to see what the coders at Dal-Tile Corp. are doing. The thermal inkjet printers are putting a precise code on irregular surfaces at speeds of 220 pieces per minute. And all the time they are being assaulted by what is essentially cement dust.

Dal-Tile manufactures distributes and markets high-quality ceramic tile products. The largest U.S. ceramic tile manufacturer and one of the largest in the world Dal-Tile currently operates 10 manufacturing facilities in the U.S. and Mexico and employs over 7 persons. Company operations have greatly expanded and now incorporate the manufacture of glazed and unglazed floor tile glazed and unglazed ceramic mosaics and unglazed quarry tile.

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