Coding, Labeling & Printing Equipment

Coders that use liquid ink and spray it onto a package or product in a controlled pattern to create/add text and/or graphics.

Machines that emit laser beams to produce codes text, and/or graphics in a controlled pattern directly onto a container.

Hot foil stamping machines heat metallic foils to form packaging features such as holograms, security features and other packaging features on paperboard, plastics and other substrates. Cold foil stamping applies metallic graphic features to paperboard and other substances using processes similar to ink printing. Included here are reciprocating ink coders and contact coders.

Coders that use heat to transfer an image onto a label or another form of packaging.

Electronic article surveillance (EAS) tag applicators are dedicated machines that apply security or anti-theft tags to a variety of packages most commonly after packages are filled and sealed.

Also known as cut-and-stack labelers, these machines run stacks of labels that have been die cut with incisions, separate the labels from the stack and apply them to containers or packages.

Labeling machines that apply light pressure to labels coated with an adhesive backing on one side to separate the label from the face stock before adhering it to the package.

Printer/applicators, also known as print-and-apply labeling systems, combine the functions of label printing and dispensing into a single machine and can be used in a wide variety of applications, from barcode label printing to stickers and warning labels.

Any machine related to applying, encoding or reading Radio-frequency identification (RFID) label systems.

Machines that remove a continuous roll of labels and separates and applies labels onto a container or package that is rotated while going through the label application head.

Machines that use heat to apply plastic film material so that when cooled, it conforms to the body of the container for a snug fit, such as a full-body shrink sleeve label for a single-serve bottle of chocolate milk. Included here are neck banders, which employ similar heat application technology to apply neck bands for tamper-evidence in applications such as a neck band on a bottle of aspirin. Includes any equipment related to these technologies such as heat tunnels.

A wide range of equipment for specialty promotion and decorating including silk screening on bottles, foil hood decorating systems, colored band machines, decorative strips on pillow bags, and other specialty labeling equipment.

Stretch sleeve labelers apply plastics with sufficient elasticity to maintain positioning, such as a wraparound sleeve label that is stretched and applied to a plastic container of cat litter.

Machines that use digital technology to print inline during a packaging process, such as inline digital printers that are configured to print bags as they are fed into a vertical form/fill/seal (vf/f/s) operation. Considered separate from converting and package formation printing, where printing is handled on dedicated equipment of usually large webs or rolls.

Digital equipment that prints information such as barcodes, lots, company logos and other information directly onto pre-formed RSC cases, cartons, kraft bags and other paper-based packaging. Considered separate from converting related printing, where printing occurs on large webs before die-cutting, scoring and related operations.

Standalone industrial printers used to print labels.