Below are a variety of success stories from our PIN members highlighting how they met customers’ needs in various industries.
- Thermal Transfer Overprinter/Dairy
Problem:
The customer was using small character CIJ printers to print two lines of text on two liter and five liter bags of smoothie and shake mixes sold to a major fast food restaurant chain. The fast food chain changed their print specifications to eight lines of text in mixed font sizes and multi-lingual product information. ...
- Thermal Transfer Overprinter/Candy
Problem:
This customer was utilizing a thermal transfer overprinter for their printing application. However, the printer’s performance was unreliable and the current vendor provided poor service and support. The downtime was eating up of this manufacturer’s efficiencies.
Solution:
PIN Distributor, Mammoth Labels & Packaging, provided a new thermal transfer over-printer to print continuous codes onto the candy wrappers. The ...
- Drop-on-Demand Inkjet/Plastics
Problem:
This plastics manufacturer had internal initiatives to include product coding in advance of pending government legislation and as a highly-prized value-add for both existing and potential customers.
Currently the product, plastic film, runs through an oven and is then wound into roll sizes suitable for sale to end-users. It is then packed in a case that ...
- Drop-on-Demand Inkjet/Industrial Components
Problem:
This customer was using large character printers with yellow pigmented ink, printing seven lines of text and logos in multiple areas on the drums. The supplier could not manage all of this information from one controller, so multiple units were in place to accomplish this. Additionally, the MEK pigmented ink did not have a circulating ...
- High-Resolution Inkjet/Industrial Components
Problem:
This customer was using an older model large character inkjet printer to print logos and directions on small engine filters. There was a need for clear, high print quality that was not being met consistently by the current system. The customer was spending approximately $16,000 on printhead repairs to keep them at an acceptable level ...
