Problem: The customer was using laser printers to mark on decorative tins and paper board packaging. The laser removed the paint of the decorative surface making the packaging less attractive. The laser could not mark on the bottom of the tin because it was unpainted, and the laser was not powerful enough to burn into…
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Seafood Industry Solution
Problem: This customer was hand applying labels to jars of oysters requiring multiple workers. Demand often called for the increase in the number of workers and increased production costs. Solution: PIN Distributor, Industrial & Shippers Supply, teamed up with multiple vendors to implement automation to the process. The solution consisted of a new small character continuous inkjet printer…
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Problem: The customer was using thermal inkjet for their primary packaging on plastic bags of fertilizer and secondary packaging on corrugated boxes. The plant was experiencing significant downtime due to the frequency of replacing the thermal inkjet cartridges. The thermal inkjet cartridges were not capable of supporting the volume the manufacturing process was demanding. Another…
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Problem: The beer brewer was using a mechanical hot stamp to apply a simple, one-line date code on preprinted beer bottle labels prior to the labels being applied to the bottles. The hot stamp had become unreliable and produced uneven print quality. It also required manual type changes for each new date. It was difficult…
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