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Calculating The Cost of Coding

6 mins

The term COO (cost of ownership) is all-important in the world of coding, where the price of a machine isn’t a reflection on its overall lifetime cost.

5 Reasons To Consider Date Coding Your Sleeves Offline

2 mins

Date coding your product online may be favourable but it’s not always the best way to ensure clear, accurate, reliable results. Here we explain why coding your sleeves offline may prove a better option.

Luxury Brands Sitting Pretty with Codes

5 mins |Kirsty Burrage

Premium products such as cosmetics, perfume and luxury food rely on beautifully designed packaging to reflect the quality of their product and achieve their shelf appeal. Quality is paramount and the luxury category tend to favour clean, minimalistic packaging over busy designs with cluttered messaging.

Continuous Inkjet vs Thermal Inkjet Printing

3 mins

Continuous Inkjet (CIJ), the fast-drying, non-contact printing technology has been the preferred method to code and mark packaging for many years. It’s ability to print on to virtually any surface at high-speed meant that it was unrivalled for many applications. Until now that is.

Sizing Up Ready Meal Coding Trends

3 mins

Manufacturers in the growing ready meals sector are facing increasing challenges regarding the labelling and coding of convenience food products.

Taking The Complexity Out Of Traceability

3 mins

Traceability isn’t just a buzzword. It is supply chain transparency that any company operating in the 21st century food industry has to guarantee in order to thrive in an age of exacting consumer and retailer expectations and rising food safety related threats.

Coding With The RF Auto: More Versatility Delivers More productivity

3 mins

Rotech has developed its new offline RF Auto sleeve and carton friction feeder in response to the coding and handling challenges of the latest ‘lift-the-flap’-style luxury pack sleeves.

Rewind, Play, Fast Foward: Coding Past, Present and Future

This year, Rotech Machines, the coding integration and feeding systems specialist, celebrates its 20th anniversary. To mark this milestone, company director Richard Pether looks back through the decades on coding technologies and what is instore for the future.

Feeding For Coding: One Size Doesn’t Fit All

3 mins

When buying a new offline coding system, choosing the shiny new printer is usually where the attention is focused, while working out how the pack will be fed to that coder becomes an afterthought.