The beer brewer was using a mechanical hot stamp to apply a simple, one-line date code on preprinted beer bottle labels prior to the labels being applied to the bottles. The hot stamp...read more

The customer was using laser printers to mark on decorative tins and paper board packaging. The laser removed the paint of the decorative surface making the packaging less...read more

This client utilizes a filling machine to fill tubes with caulk. Product discharges from the filling machine at a continuous rate. Operators had a hard time opening a case blank, holding it...read more

This client was taking packed cases of tubes of caulk and manually closing them, then feeding them into an older model semi-automatic case sealer. The process was labor intensive and...read more

The pet food manufacturing facility in Kansas had packaging requirements from the company’s marketing leadership to use a smaller than average-size case for their product packaging. The customer reported that the current case sealers ......read more

This customer manufactures caulk which is filled in tubes. They have a need to mark the caulk tubes with manufacturing information for tracking purposes. Their method of printing consisted of older model continuous ink printers of different......read more

This client in Virginia had requirements to upgrade older continuous models. The older coders were not reliable and were costly to maintain....read more

This manufacturer was using small character inkjet printers to provide quality control and tracking information on extruded vinyl products. They were experiencing continual delays...read more

This customer was using large character printers with yellow pigmented ink, printing seven lines of text and logos in multiple areas on the drums. The supplier could not manage all of...read more

This plastics manufacturer had internal initiatives to include product coding in advance of pending government legislation and as a highly-prized value-add for both existing and...read more

This customer was using an older model large character inkjet printer to print logos and directions on small engine filters. There was a need for clear, high print quality that was not being met consistently by the current system. The custo......read more

PIN Distributor, Colorado Scale Center, first suggested putting a small character continuous inkjet (CIJ) system in its place. This customer had legacy drop-on-demand printers that had to be taken apart and cleaned every day before use......read more

The customer was using a large character Piezo high-resolution printing technology that was antiquated to print on corrugated boxes for a secondary case decorating printer requirement. The operators were dissatisfied with the quality of pri......read more

The customer had a challenging new printing application, and the competitor could not provide a workable solution that would perform consistently. The customer had to resort to...read more

This manufacturing facility was looking to automate their labeling process, as their current process had them hand applying two different labels to their primary package. The customer...read more

The customer was sometimes required to place labels on certain parts they were producing, which was being done manually. Labels were occasionally missed and not applied. When it...read more

PIN Distributor, Ship-Pac, supplied this customer with a new automatic label printer applicator. The unit is mounted directly to the customer’s production line and automatically...read more

This customer was using small character continuous inkjet printers to mark extruded medical tubing with quality control codes. In addition to reliability issues with the printers...read more

When this major poultry packer was having continuous problems with a wellknown competitor’s thermal thermal transfer overprinters, they were given an ultimatum - trade up to the extremely expensive new premium model of the manufactu......read more

The customer was using thermal printers for their primary packaging on plastic bags of fertilizer and secondary packaging on corrugated boxes. The plant was experiencing significant...read more

This customer was hand applying labels to jars of oysters requiring multiple workers. Demand often called for the increase in the number of workers and increased production...read more

The customer was using a small character CIJ printer to print on their product, rubber roofing material. An operator, unfamiliar with the equipment, poured rubber stamp ink into the printer when the low-ink alarm came on....read more

This customer was operating a 24/7 facility and could not get quick enough response working directly with the original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) on a variety of marking...read more

This customer had older continuous printer systems that were a battle to keep running. The customer was spending 30-60 minutes per day cleaning and adjusting the printers to keep them running....read more

The customer had requirements to print on both paperboard and high-density polyethylene tubs of chicken salad and the like. The customer’s current models were old and troublesome...read more

This client had requirements to upgrade old marking equipment on their food line. They had many issues with existing printers and needed to upgrade. The printing application called for...read more

This customer’s product facility can be hard on packaging equipment. They struggled with their existing continuous inkjet systems. Their requirements called for moving the ...read more

This leading provider of processing and packaging services to America’s food industry needed small character inkjet printers to keep up with their growing capacity....read more

This co-packer was utilizing several small character inkjet printers from top manufacturers. The systems were old and unreliable. This co-packer runs approximately a million plus...read more

This customer was using a thermal ink printer to mark a date code on their plastic bottle caps. The print was not clear, and the operator had to wipe the print-head after each print....read more

This manufacturer was silk screening their customers’ logos and information onto the ends of wooden reels. This proved to be a very expensive and time-consuming process. Most customer ...read more

The packaging department of this Michigan manufacturer was printing high resolution product information, expiry dates and bar codes on two or four sides of generic cartons. The case coding ...read more

This customer needed a solution for mismarked glass and plastic bottles of liquor. The plant’s quality assurance manager figured the plant was processing 1,000 mismarked bottles daily. ...read more

This client had requirements to upgrade old marking equipment on their tray pack line. The product was loaded into a tray and the bar code and product information were printed on the ...read more

The customer had requirements to upgrade his high-resolution large character inkjet system due to downtime and poor print quality. Cost for repair for each printhead was averaging ...read more

This client had requirements to upgrade old marking equipment for their corrugated shipping cases. The product was loaded into a box and sent through a folding and sealing carton ...read more

This customer had a labor intensive process of forming boxes, filling the boxes with baked pizza crusts, hand taping the boxes and manually applying pressure sensitive barcode labels to ...read more

This client was using small character continuous inkjet printers to print on taco and pasta pouches on their fillers at a rate of about 800 pouches per minute. ...read more

This customer was utilizing a thermal transfer overprinter for their printing application. However, the printer’s performance was unreliable and the current vendor provided poor ...read more

The customer was using small character CIJ printers to print two lines of text on two liter and five liter bags of smoothie and shake mixes sold to a major fast food restaurant chain....read more

A popular powdered mix company was producing some of the country’s finest drink and baking mixes but had been receiving complaints from their customers about the inferior quality of the product identification on each of their bags. ......read more

This client was marking cases with an old system with poor print quality causing problems down line. They were looking to start marking cases with a bar code which the old system was not capable...read more