Mae Alexander

Product Decoration

Companies are challenged to grow their brands within an ever increasing competitive landscape where the risk of commoditization has never been higher. Product decoration is a proven method of growing a brand’s share and profitability. Product decorating i... Read >

Marking and Coding Systems

With an industrial printer for marking and coding, you can apply high-quality alphanumeric codes, logos and graphics to a multitude of surfaces at virtually any line speed, angle, or location on a product or package. Coding and marking printers offered on... Read >

Inks And Consumables For High-Tech Printers

Just as the types of industrial ink jet printers vary, so do the types of compatible inks. The choice of ink affects both the quality of the message being printed, and the performance of your printer. Printers and supplies that are designed, tested and ma... Read >

What are Continuous Ink Jet Printers?

Perhaps the best known method of non-contact marking and coding is continuous ink jet (CIJ). The continuous ink jet method is used commercially for marking and coding of products and packages. Using a non-contact process, continuous ink jet printers have ... Read >

Different Types of Industrial Ink Jet Printers

Industrial ink jet printers offer a range of printing capabilities from single-line messaging to complex codes combining text, logos and bar codes and 2D DataMatrix codes. These marks and codes are often used to provide traceability and security against f... Read >

What do you mean by Traceability in Printing Industry?

One of the most important methods of brand protection and traceability is through variable data marking and coding technologies to print on primary packaging. Technologies can include ink jet printers, laser coders, thermal transfer overprinters, binary a... Read >

Today’s Large Character Ink Jet Printers Feature Higher Print Quality, Self-Maintenance & High Resol

Maintaining high resolution Though the resolution of modern large character printers has radically improved in recent years, that improvement only matters if high-resolution codes can be replicated consistently. For example, if a printer is printing at 1... Read >

Features of Large Character Ink Jet Printers

Improved resolution: Offset printing offers very high resolution, which is the technology that manufacturers of pre-printed corrugated containers use. There is perceived value in such high quality, particularly if the boxes will be displayed at retail l... Read >

CHALLENGES INVOVLED IN MANAGING LARGE AMOUNT OF CORRUGATED SHIPPING CONTAINERS

Finding space A recent survey conducted by Videojet Technologies Inc. found that 72 percent of North American companies have pre-printed information on their secondary packaging. One reason for choosing pre-printed corrugated boxes is the economics of t... Read >

CONSIDERING AN IN-HOUSE PRINTING STRATEGY FOR CORRUGATED SHIPPING CONTAINERS

North American product manufacturers and contract packagers are always looking for ways to reduce cost and maximize time and space economy. One strategy that is receiving more interest is using large character ink jet printers with piezo technology to pri... Read >