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View 6 Ways to Save Ink and Reduce Your Printing Costs

6 Ways to Save Ink and Reduce Your Printing Costs

| 2 mins |Kirsty Burrage

Thermal inkjet is a reliable and low-cost solution for the coding and marking of a range of packaging types. However, you could potentially cut your operating costs further by following these tips.

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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 Choose Thermal Inkjet for Safer, Cleaner and Greener Coding

Choose Thermal Inkjet for Safer, Cleaner and Greener Coding

| 3 mins |Kirsty Burrage

TIJ printing provides a cleaner, safer alternative to CIJ technology in coding applications for food, pharmaceuticals and other fast-moving consumer goods, says UK sales manager at Rotech.

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View Continuous Inkjet vs Thermal Inkjet Printing

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.

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View TIJ Gets Serious On Flexibles

TIJ Gets Serious On Flexibles

| 2 mins

TIJ (thermal inkjet) is challenging TT (thermal transfer) as the coding technology of choice for web-based materials, says Richard Pether, Director at coding specialist Rotech Machines.

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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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View Sizing Up Ready Meal Coding Trends

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.

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