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View 6 Tips to Help You Achieve the Best Quality Barcodes

6 Tips to Help You Achieve the Best Quality Barcodes

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Barcodes play a vital part in manufacturing, logistics and trade. They allow for the efficient collection of data, prevent input errors and even control entire systems. However, they only work if they can be correctly read by scanners and cameras.

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View IP Protection for Coding in Harsh Environments

IP Protection for Coding in Harsh Environments

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For many companies, particularly those in the food and drink or pharmaceutical sector, a daily washdown is necessary to adhere to strict hygiene regulations. Washdowns are also essential to prolong the lifespan of the systems and ensure the production area is a safe environment to work in.

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View 5 Reasons Why Offline Coding is Ideal for Luxury Packaging

5 Reasons Why Offline Coding is Ideal for Luxury Packaging

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Coding luxury products online may be preferable, but due to the very nature of luxury packaging it isn’t always the best way to ensure high-quality, consistent results – even for highly automated manufacturing and packing operations.

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View 5 Reasons To Consider Date Coding Your Sleeves Offline

5 Reasons To Consider Date Coding Your Sleeves Offline

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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.

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View Luxury Brands Sitting Pretty with Codes

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.

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View Coding With a Conscience

Coding With a Conscience

| 3 mins |Steve Ryan

Steve Ryan, UK sales manager at Rotech Machines, on how coding can become a source of advantage in an age of heightened environmental awareness.

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View Why It’s Not Too Late to Get FMD Ready

Why It’s Not Too Late to Get FMD Ready

| 4 mins |Richard Pether

Director of coding and marking specialist Rotech, outlines the impact the FMD is set to have across the pharmaceutical supply chain.

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View Continuous Inkjet vs Thermal Inkjet Printing

Continuous Inkjet vs Thermal Inkjet Printing

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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.

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View Ten TIJ Myths Debunked

Ten TIJ Myths Debunked

| 7 mins |Kirsty Burrage

In the last decade, designers of TIJ (thermal inkjet) printers have been working tirelessly to address the technology’s limiting factors, and latest generation TIJ machines will outperform CIJ in terms of cost of ownership and print quality in most coding applications. But despite a discernible shift to TIJ on FMCG lines, outdated perceptions are still deterring many operations from moving to cartridge-based technology.

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