The quick answer:
Note – ‘marked’ covers both printing directly on the product and labelling.
- Sizes, style and material of the product range to be fed and marked (a picture would be useful).
- What are your throughput requirements?
- Is the product currently marked, if so with what?
- Details of the marking requirement – print area, and type of information to be printed.
- Preferred technology or manufacturer for the marking e.g. other manufacturers used on site.
A more detailed answer:
- Sizes, style and material of the product range to be fed and marked (a picture would be useful). .
- Throughput requirements, annual throughput and average batch size.
- Is the product currently marked, if so with what and why is an automatic feeding system being considered?
- Details, including positioning of the marking requirement – print area, and type of information to be marked e.g. logos, barcodes and details of any variable information.
- a) Is there any interfacing required between the marking system and external database?
- b) Details of any inline scanning requirements.
- c) Details of any inline reject requirements.
- Preferred technology or manufacturer for the marking e.g. other manufacturers used on site.
- Project timescale.