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…
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Thermal Inkjet/Fruit Jams & Toppings
Problem: The customer had requirements to upgrade his high-resolution large character inkjet system due to downtime and poor print quality. Cost for repair for each printhead was averaging $3,200-$4,000 every two years. The high cost for ink and frequent priming were continuously rising. Solution: Hitachi installed two thermal inkjet systems capable of printing 2” of print…
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Problem: This customer needed a solution for mismarked glass and plastic bottles of liquor. The plant’s quality assurance manager figured the plant was processing 1,000 mismarked bottles daily. These bottles were half printed, smudged or printed with the wrong batch numbers and/or date codes. The Q&A manager reached out to Raab Sales looking for a…
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Problem: The packaging department of this Michigan manufacturer was printing high resolution product information, expiry dates and bar codes on two or four sides of generic cartons. The case coding equipment used sealed printheads which were not repairable once contaminated with carton dust and angel hair from the gluing systems. The contamination and “bad channels”…
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Problem: This manufacturing facility was looking to automate their labeling process, as their current process had them hand applying two different labels to their primary package. The customer was outsourcing to another company to preprint rolls of multi-colored product labels that were hand applied to their packages. The second label was printed onsite with a…
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Problem: This customer was using a thermal inkjet printer to mark a date code on their plastic bottle caps. The print was not clear, and the operator had to wipe the print-head after each print. The process was very labor intensive and expensive. Solution: PIN Distributor upgraded this customer to a small character continuous inkjet…
read moreSmall Character Printers/Soup
Problem: This customer’s product facility can be hard on packaging equipment. They struggled with their existing small character continuous inkjet systems. Their requirements called for moving the coders around depending on the line configuration that was running that day. The manufacturer was not getting reliable performance from the existing coders. Coder reliability became such a…
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Problem: This client had requirements to upgrade old marking equipment on their food line. They had many issues with existing printers and needed to upgrade. The printing application called for a date and lot code to be printed on the top of a can after it was filled and sealed. After being printed, the product…
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Problem: This customer had older continuous inkjet systems that were a battle to keep running. The customer was spending 30-60 minutes per day cleaning and adjusting the printers to keep them running. Besides the climbing labor costs associated with the daily maintenance of the machines, the downtime become unacceptable because of the company’s growth. Solution:…
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Problem: The customer had requirements to print on both paperboard and high-density polyethylene tubs of chicken salad and the like. The customer’s current printers were old and troublesome. Solution: Hitachi installed a small character inkjet printer on a trial. The printer features a piston pump system with electric motor to circulate the ink as opposed to…
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