Below are a variety of success stories from our PIN members highlighting how they met customers’ needs in various industries.
- 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 and ...
- Printer Solutions in the Agricultural Industry
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 major ...
- High-Resolution Inkjet/Personal Care
Problem:
This customer had legacy drop-on-demand printers that had to be taken apart and cleaned every day before use. The customer was looking to see if there was a new technology that would help with their issue. The other challenge was the application called for printing up on small lotion bottles.
Solution:
PIN Distributor, Colorado Scale Center, first ...
- Thermal Inkjet/Freight Forwarding
Problem:
This client had requirements to upgrade old marking equipment on their tray pack line. The product was loaded into a tray and the bar code and product information were printed on the trays with a large character inkjet printer. In addition to this equipment being close to obsolete, the manufacturer experienced several maintenance related issues. ...
- Service/Building Materials
Problem:
The customer was using a small character CIJ printer to print on their product, rubber roofing material. An operator, unfamiliar with the equipment, poured rubber stamp ink into the printer when the low-ink alarm came on. The incorrect ink caused the printer to fail completely. Service was contacted late on a Friday afternoon and advised ...
