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Enhancing shipping case print quality/flexibility

Ambriola Company, West Caldwell, NJ, a subsidiary of Auricchio S.p.A. of Cremona, Italy, is an importer of Italian specialty cheese brands, including Ambriola, Auricchio, Colombo, Locatelli, Gran Moravia, and Luppi Prosciutto di Parma.

Shipping case with customer information
Shipping case with customer information

Ambriola packages and markets wedged and grated cheeses in a range of packaging sizes and formats, mainly in plastic cups and film bags. Cups are supplied by King Plastics (www.kingplastics.com), and film bags are from Forma Packaging. Cups are filled using fill/seal/overcap equipment from Oystar North America (563/391-1100). Grated cheese products are filled on four semi-automatic auger/agitator filling machines from multiple suppliers. For quality control, Ambriola uses X-ray equipment from Smiths Detection.

The company uses Genesis small character printers to deliver shelf-life code-dating for its primary film bag and plastic cup packaging and is happy with the performance of those printers. But Ambriola saw a need to make some upgrades in its shipping case printing capabilities to better serve their customers’ requirements for enhanced printing flexibility.

Production Manager Moustapha Diagne notes, “After evaluating various options, we decided that the Evolution ink-jet printers from Digital Design, Inc. [and http://evolutioninkjet.com] give us more flexibility in terms of the number of characters per line. These printers also enable us to generate UPC codes—a must for today’s packaging. And since we installed the printers, we have experienced less downtime. There is no ink spillage, and nozzle-clogging instances have been diminished, resulting in faster production. Each printer head has its own cartridge, which makes troubleshooting more efficient.”

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