Markem-Imaje Announces New Continuous Inkjet CodersMarkem-Imaje’s new 9750 Expert Series of continuous inkjet (CIJ) coders cost-effectively deliver peak results, even in high humidity, dusty conditions, and on ultra-fast lines. Options exist to code tiny surfaces, deliver enhanced 2D messages and certain hybrid models even use just one type of equipment for dye or pigment prints.
This is particularly important to businesses in the electronics industry where printing on items such as microprocessor boards requires very specific solutions capable of clear, consistent printing on tiny surfaces. Uptime, Industry 4.0 integration and sustainability are all better.
Data, like lot numbers and barcodes, are key to safe usage and traceability. Codes can also help ensure the right parts are put into the right equipment when components are shipped from intermediary plants to those doing the final assembly, for example, in electronics manufacturing. 2D codes, which are harder to print, are increasingly popular in today’s digital world due to the extra detail they encode.
Achieving the desired sophistication, legibility and durability is extremely difficult in some applications and production environments. The 9750 Expert Series improves results in such scenarios.
The 9750 Expert HD+ coder easily delivers particularly high quality, vision camera-readable GS1 Digital Links and QR codes as small as 5mm high (ISO 29158). The GS1 Digital Link is a relatively new option whereby a single QR code gives different information to various users, depending on the application used to scan it. Printing three lines of text on tiny surfaces such as phone batteries, RAM chips and other electronics components is now more effective than ever.
Pigments are used when a very long-lasting and crisp code is required, and/or where achieving the desired contrast and legibility with a dye is difficult due to packaging colour. Companies often need to use both inks with and across plants. Traditionally, this required two types of machines and many different spare parts. Both 9570 Expert+ and 9750 Expert HD+ accommodate both types of inks, so manufacturers can streamline maintenance and spare parts, giving them increased flexibility and lower costs.
‘We’re proud that Markem-Imaje is one of the first, and currently only one of very few CIJ suppliers, offering coders which cut VOCs even when using MEK inks,’ said Guillaume Montagnat, product marketing manager. ‘In consumable-saving mode, all 9750 Expert Series printers generate up to 35% fewer VOCs.’
Using MEK-free inks, consumables and volatile organic compound (VOCs) emissions are reduced even more: by up to 50% as standard, and up to 60% using the consumable-saving mode. Sustainability is further assured by allowing the swapping out of individual parts, and not entire ink circuit blocks, thereby sending less equipment to landfill.
Incomplete printer integration can lead to items being produced without codes, for example due to no ink, causing scrap or rework. With an M12 input/output (I/O) connector, and compatibility with various industrial communications protocols, all 9750 Expert Series coders are easy to integrate fully onto a line. They talk seamlessly to other equipment, stopping lines when necessary. Additionally, manufacturers no longer waste time and money in complicated wire installations to achieve this.
The 9750 Expert’s Intelli’Ink system ensures optimal coder performance and flexibility when coding a vast array of packaging materials, in all colours, with all inks.
Its Jet Speed Control automatically adjusts ink and printer variables to provide perfect drop placement, quality and code consistency, minimising scrap and rework, along with the earlier mentioned cost-saving benefits of less consumable usage and lower service-related costs.
Furthermore, the 9750 Expert Series’s full-featured CoLOS® Packaging Intelligence Suite software capacity allows for accurate, smart and optimised message design and data management across the factory from a remote location. This ensures greater accuracy and efficiency.
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