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Ink-jet print quality on butter packs

High-resolution print quality on a challenging foil substrate and improved machine reliability are key features for this Irish dairy producer.

Kerrygold
Kerrygold

Increased print quality, greater sophistication of coded information, and improved equipment reliability are among the key benefits reported by dairy product specialist Town of Monaghan Co-op following the installation of Domino’s new G-Series thermal ink-jet (TIJ) printer. These factors have proven critical to Town of Monaghan’s contract with Irish butter brand Kerrygold, for which the farmer-owned co-operative produces several million butter blocks in its signature gold foil packaging each year.

Established over a century ago and based in County Monaghan, in the Republic of Ireland, the Co-op’s production capabilities are the heartbeat of its entire operation and are pivotal to meeting the needs of key customers like Kerrygold. Following significant investment in the latest high-speed butter packing machinery to accommodate an annual output capacity approaching 50 million individual packs of butter, the Co-op realized that the continuous ink-jet coding systems used previously would not be appropriate for the new line and set about identifying an alternative technology that would ensure high quality printing and a productive workflow.

Having reviewed a number of options, Joe Martin, Dairy Manager at Town of Monaghan Co-op, was leaning toward a thermal-transfer printing system. However, before making the final decision, Martin decided to take a closer look at the benefits of thermal ink-jet delivered by Domino’s new G-Series printer. The G-Series affords manufacturers improved quality and high-speed printing onto an expanding and diverse array of substrates, thanks to impressive 600 dpi resolution and speeds of up to 300m/min.

Following a demonstration of the equipment’s attributes through Domino’s Irish distributor, Codico, Martin admits to being instantly convinced that the G-Series’ versatile functionality offered the right printing technology and best equipment solution for the company.

“We weren’t a Domino site prior to this but it’s fair to say that we basically bought the machine there and then,” he explains. “I knew that it would fit the particular application perfectly and that its performance would easily match the 125 cycles per minute throughput speeds of our new Oystar Benhil Multipack 8000 butter packer.”

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