Video podcast: Why laser coding is especially suited to beverage packaging

Benchmarking plant metrics, calculations show laser coding can be a cost-effective alternative.

Pat ReynoldsVP Editor Emeritus

Jan 30th, 2014

Domino North America

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When Snack Food Manufacturers need an Industrial Printing Solution, they choose Domino

When Snack Food Manufacturers need an Industrial Printing Solution, they choose Domino

Precision Automation Arca S Series Evolution

Precision Automation Introduces New Line of Labeling Systems

Are suitable for varying production needs

Single-, Double-Sided Laminating System

Nobelus offers the Komfi® Amiga 52 Double flexible laminating system that can provide single- or double-sided lamination in one pass through the machine.

Weber Packaging Solutions Celebrates 90th Anniversary

What started as a small, family-owned handprinter company in Chicago, Weber Packaging Solutions is now a global company in its third generation.

Videojet, Loftware Announce Strategic Partnership to Accelerate Labeling, Marking, and Coding Automation

Videojet and Loftware’s partnership will change the paradigm for how companies automate printing across production lines, factories, and warehouses, and removing reliance on a proprietary printer/software combination.

The Markoprint integra PP 108 can achieve speeds of up to 150 meters/min at a resolution of 360 dpi.

QuickFresh Automates Nutrition Label Printing

This prepared meal delivery company improved flexibility and throughput with a full-color variable printer for cartonboard sleeves.

Bulk Bag Discharging: Control Dust and Eliminate Material Waste

Bulk Bag Discharging: Control Dust and Eliminate Material Waste

Protect your personnel, product, and equipment. Engineered-to-application bulk bag dischargers from NBE, with enclosed dust recovery, keep material in the product stream and throughput at its peak.

2022 Labeling Hero

Labeling Equipment Playbook

Read tips & best practices for labeling equipment and design considerations for your next project. Download the Playbook now.

Craft Brew Conference Report: New Products for an Industry at a Crossroads

In an industry that’s quickly maturing, craft breweries are forced to reinvent themselves to stay relevant. We’ll talk about the trends, equipment, & materials shown at the 2022 Craft Brew Conference designed to help brewers take on the next chapter.

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Ardagh Invests in Digital Can Printing

Commercially viable since 2019 and operating more or less under the radar at first, Canada’s Hart Print is now ready for what Co-CEO and Co-Founder JP Paradis calls “our coming out party.”

One example of the vivid printing Hart is able to produce is shown here.

Digital Continues to Transform Printing and Finishing

With digital’s share of the printed label and packaging market showing impressive gains, a number of new players are entering the game—especially in the direct-to-shape space.

Solucan Snack Resampled

Snacks in Digitally Printed Cans

This Canadian startup discovered that the best way to get its tasty snacks to market in ring-pull aluminum cans was to rely on direct-to-shape digital printing.

Continuous Inkjet Printer

Markem-Imaje launches the 9750 continuous inkjet printer featuring traceability coding including text messages up to five lines, logos, and high resolution 1D and 2D codes designed for a variety of packaging applications.

Andy Staib, Owner & CEO of DWS Printing & Packaging

DWS Discusses Hybrid Printing Labels and Shrink Sleeves with Domino

DWS Printing & Packaging discusses why it uses Domino’s hybrid press for labels and shrink sleeves to power its MPS EF SYMJET.

Digital Print For Packaging Us

Gain Digital Print, E-comm, and Supply Chain Insight at DPP

Aveda’s Recyclable Paper Sample Packet Replaces Multilayer Foil Sachets

Sampling is a big category for The Estée Lauder Companies. Aveda and its supplier partners found a way to sample product more sustainably, using curbside recycle-ready (or -certified, depending on locale) paper packets to replace multilayer foil sachets.

Domino North America Named One of 2022’s Best Places to Work in Illinois

This is Domino’s seventh acknowledgement, in the Medium employer category (100-399 U.S. employees). This statewide survey and awards program was designed to identify, recognize, and honor the best places of employment in Illinois.

Fiber Laser Printer

Markem-Imaje offers the SmartLase F250 20W fiber laser printer designed to produce high-quality, permanent coding on high-density substrates without requiring ink.

Vj Remote Service Side By Side

Cellular Connectivity Solution for Remote Service

Videojet Technologies launches the Customer Independent Cellular Network (CICN), a connectivity solution for VideojetConnect™ Remote Service (VRS) and the easiest and fastest way to connect coding equipment to the Videojet cloud and enable VRS.

Live at PACK EXPO East: Coding & Marking’s Role in Workforce, E-Comm

In the coding and marking equipment category at PACK EXPO East, we saw examples of new tech aimed at the e-commerce market, and entry-level equipment alleviating workforce strains.

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Automated Adhesive Applicator

Baumer HHS highlights its automated adhesive applicator system that uses electric actuation to apply adhesive in a dotting pattern to create a stronger bond and save on adhesive costs.

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Direct-to-Corrugated Print System Obviates Pre-Printed Cases

With two 4-in. heads, this high-resolution system is able to print onto an 8-in.-tall space, directly onto corrugated. In some situations, this could mean non needing to buy pre-printed corrugated cases.

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Thermal Inkjet Printer Features Easy Installation

The InteliJet TSi thermal inkjet printer features a versatile design that allows users to easily replace CIJ printers at a fraction of the cost with simple and fast installation.

Live at PACK EXPO East: Hi-Resolution, Immediate Dry Printing System

The CoPilot Max 512i Turbo is available as an oil-based system for printing on porous substrates like uncoated corrugated or as a solvent-based system for printing on a variety of non-porous substrates.

Videojet V4236 ink

Videojet Expands Ink Portfolio for Continuous Inkjet Printers

Videojet Technologies’ V4236 halogen-free ink is now qualified for use in the Videojet 1280 continuous inkjet (CIJ) printer, and its high-adhesion Videojet V4230 ink is available for use in the high-speed Videojet 1880 CIJ printer.

Printing and Labeling Use Cases for Sanitizer and COVID-19 Tests

Health Supply US and Bioneer use printing and labeling machines to enable hygienic and efficient packaging of single-dose sanitizer sachets and COVID-19 test kits, respectively.

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Report: Innovative New In-line Digital Printing for VF/F/S at PACK EXPO Las Vegas

PMMI Media Group editors fanned out across the many booths at PACK EXPO Las Vegas to bring you this Innovations Report. Here’s what they saw in the in-line digital printing machinery for VF/F/S category.

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Report: Innovative New Marking, Coding, and Digital Machinery at PACK EXPO Las Vegas

PMMI Media Group editors fanned out across the many booths at PACK EXPO Las Vegas to bring you this Innovations Report. Here’s what they saw in the marking, coding, and digital categories.

Demand for Supply Chain Visibility Leads to Labeling Enhancements for EOL Operations

The increased need for product visibility in the supply chain means new demands on end of line operations, most often by way of labeling enhancements and vision inspection.

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PACK EXPO Innovations Report: Pharmaceutical and Medical Device Packaging

PMMI Media Group editors fanned out across the many booths at PACK EXPO Las Vegas to bring you this Innovations Report. Here’s what they found in pharmaceutical and medical device packaging.

The tare gross weighing system accounts for variable-weight glass jars by weighing the empty jar, filling the jar with cannabis flower, weighing the filled jar, and finally validating the contents’ weight by comparing the feeding scale weight with the post-fill scale weight.

Cannabis Weighing System Accounts for Variable Container Weights

Container weight variability for the painted glass jars in this application made precision dosing of the expensive product difficult. Find out how a unique filling and weighing system overcame the problem.

Videojet Xtract Pro Fume Extractor

Fume Extractors for Laser Applications

Videojet Technologies launches the Videojet Xtract™ fume extractors for use with Videojet laser marking systems.

Mettler Toledo Mark And Verify Compliance

Mettler-Toledo Extends Track & Trace Capabilities

Improves packaging quality control with new Integrated Mark & Verify Systems