The Essentials of Coding & Marking Solutions in Dairy Industry
For dairy producers, short product shelf life and an intense focus on cleanliness creates inherent pressures on your packaging operations. Add in changing packaging designs and expanding product flavors and variety, and the increased production changeovers adds further complexity.
The Challenge?
Dairy packaging designs are evolving to meet changing consumer demand for more variety, single serving, and ease of use. Brand owners would like coding flexibility to print more targeted marketing information. This leads to production challenges like increasing product changeover frequency, legible coding in smaller space, and improving production efficiency and uptime. What’s the best way to improve flexibility and accuracy into your coding process?
Improve uptime, save money, and gain agility
Uptime is critical in dairy production. Many code printers require expensive compressed air that requires filtering to remove harmful impurities like moisture and oil. Additionally, the air must be installed, which adds cost to line expansions and re-configurations. Videojet’s 1000 Line printers do not require compressed air, leading to the potential savings of hundreds of dollars per year, per printer.The Videojet 1000 Line of printers incorporate an IP65 rated design within a 316 stainless steel enclosure. They are ideal for washdown applications, and since they do not require compressed air, there are fewer associated maintenance costs, and printer mobility is increased. Changing environmental conditions within a dairy facility can be troublesome. Temperature fluctuations can alter print characteristics leading to poor print quality and missing information, both of which can require product rework or product disposal. The Videojet 1000 Line printers manage the printing process with our Dynamic Calibration™ System. The printer continuously monitors and adjusts ink consistency to produce great print quality, even as the printing environment changes.
Range of fluids to meet printing requirements
With the wide variety of container materials used in the dairy market, it’s important that you select the correct fluids for each application. Depending on the dairy production environment, fluid selection may change to better compensate for temperature and humidity.
The 1000 Line offers a wide array of inks and fluids. General purpose fluids adhere well to a variety of substrates, including glass and plastic containers and metal cans. For high humidity environments and products with light surface condensation, we have designed fluids with adhesion properties that excel in these environments. Additionally, Videojet offers food grade rated inks that can come in contact with food and be printed directly on the product.
Videojet designs and tests its CIJ fluids in our fluid development center in North America. Ink formulations are manufactured in Videojet facilities in different regions of the world to ensure convenient supply chain availability to our customers. Ink production is managed in GMP compliant facilities to help ensure consistent production, batch after batch.
Code Assurance helps prevent printing wrong information
Making sure that your product has the right information in the correct format is critical to avoiding waste, rework and added expense. Videojet’s Code Assurance technology helps to alleviate costly errors by virtually eliminating the opportunity for incorrect information to be printed. By combining a Videojet TTO printer with a proven Code Assurance solution, you can help reduce the waste associated with improperly configured mechanical coding technologies
With products that bring an uptime advantage, clean operation and features that aid changeover, Videojet helps your team spend less time focused on the printers and more time on your operations.
About Videojet Technologies
Videojet Technologies (http://www.videojet.in) is a world-leader in the product identification market, providing in-line printing, coding, and marking products, application specific fluids, and product life cycle services. Our goal is to partner with our customers in the consumer packaged goods, pharmaceutical, and industrial goods industries to improve their productivity, to protect and grow their brands, and to stay ahead of industry trends and regulations. With our customer application experts and technology leadership in continuous ink jet (CIJ), thermal ink jet (TIJ), laser marking, thermal transfer overprinting (TTO), case coding and labeling, and wide array printing, Videojet has more than 325,000 printers installed worldwide. Our customers rely on Videojet products to print on over ten billion products daily. Customer sales, application, service, and training support is provided by direct operations with over 3,000 team member in 26 countries worldwide. In addition, Videojet’s distribution network includes more than 400 distributors and OEMs, serving 135 countries.
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