Below are a variety of success stories from our PIN members highlighting how they met customers’ needs in various industries.
- Small Character Inkjet/Prepared Foods
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 the common circulation ...
- Dairy Industry Solution
Problem:
This client in Virginia had requirements to upgrade older small character continuous inkjet printers. The older coders were not reliable and were costly to maintain. Since there were four printers, those maintenance costs added up quickly.
Solution:
The local PIN distributor demonstrated new small character continuous inkjet printers that boasted automatic nozzle seal technology, a feature that ...
- Chemical Industry Solution
Problem:
This customer manufactures caulk which is filled in tubes. They have a need to mark the caulk tubes with manufacturing information for tracking purposes. Their method of printing consisted of older model continuous inkjet printers of different makes and models. The printers did not provide good print quality and always required adjustments and maintenance, increasing ...
- Candy Industry Solutions
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 the ...
- Thermal Transfer Overprinter/Drink and Baking Mixes
Problem:
A popular powdered mix company was producing some of the country’s finest drink and baking mixes but had been receiving complaints from their customers about the inferior quality of the product identification on each of their bags. Unfortunately, the customer had originally outfitted their VFFS baggers with in-line inkjet coders, which were simply not up ...
