IIMAK’s new SW200 wax thermal transfer ribbon delivers dependable quality and consistent performance. SW200 ribbons feature IIMAK’s proprietary Clean Start® built-in printhead cleaner, which will prolong the life of your printhead. These thermal transfer ribbons are made in the USA and are the perfect solution for handling basic applications with ease. The SW200 offers many…
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Service/Pet Food
Problem: This customer was operating a 24/7 facility and could not get quick enough response working directly with the original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) on a variety of marking and coding equipment. Solution: PIN Distributor, Mammoth Labels & Packaging, was able to offer support of all of the customer’s marking and coding equipment with a maintenance…
read moreSmall Character Inkjet/Contract Packaging
Problem: This co-packer was utilizing several small character inkjet printers from top manufacturers. The systems were old and unreliable. This co-packer runs approximately a million plus units of goods per day on 14 lines. The downtime caused by the old printers translated into significant costs. Solution: Solution: This customer embarked on a project to replace…
read moreSmall Character Inkjet/Food Contract Packaging
Problem: This leading provider of processing and packaging services to America’s food industry needed small character inkjet printers to keep up with their growing capacity. This customer prints on a number of different substrates including chipboard, plastics and plastic bottles. Some of the these containers are microwavable, so the product code must withstand a significant…
read moreThermal Inkjet/Apparel
Problem: This client was marking cases with an old system with poor print quality causing problems down line. They were looking to start marking cases with a bar code which the old system was not capable of doing. Solution: A PIN Distributor upgraded the customer to a new thermal inkjet print system. The new system…
read moreCase Sealer/Pet Food
Problem: The pet food manufacturing facility in Kansas had packaging requirements from the company’s marketing leadership to use a smaller than average-size case for their product packaging. The customer reported that the current case sealers on site were not capable of running boxes of the newly required smaller size. Solution: PIN Distributor, Raab Sales, provided…
read moreCase Erector/Chemical
Problem: This client utilizes a filling machine to fill tubes with caulk. Product discharges from the filling machine at a continuous rate. Operators had a hard time opening a case blank, holding it on a table and filling it at the rate of the processing machine. Tubes would fall over in the case, making it…
read moreThermal Inkjet/Prepared Foods
Problem: This client was using small character continuous inkjet printers to print on taco and pasta pouches on their fillers at a rate of about 800 pouches per minute. They were having many service issues related to the existing units and were looking for an alternative way of printing flavors and date codes on the…
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Problem: This customer had a labor intensive process of forming boxes, filling the boxes with baked pizza crusts, hand taping the boxes and manually applying pressure sensitive barcode labels to the outside of the corrugated cases. Production would get backed up waiting for several operators to complete the end-of-line steps in the process. Solution: Mammoth Labels…
read moreThermal Inkjet/Fruits, Vegetable & Beverage
Problem: This client had requirements to upgrade old marking equipment for their corrugated shipping cases. The product was loaded into a box and sent through a folding and sealing carton machine. After the carton was sealed, the date, lot code, product description, expiration date and bar code were printed on the boxes with a Piezo-based…
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