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Industries & Examples of Typical Markings / Applications

Almost every product features a package intended to market the product perfectly, but that also has to meet requirements for traceability and duties to inform. Therefore, along with the package design, package marking and coding is a crucial topic in various industries. Colony offers marking and coding equipment with ink to match that can be used to mark your products reliably.  Below are a few industries where our offerings from Matthews Marking Systems, Digital Design, and Loveshaw shine.
 

 Packaging

  • Marking primary packaging
  • Marking secondary packaging
  • Labeling foodstuff packaging
  • Imprinting pharmaceutical/drugstore packaging
  • Coding tobacco packages
  • Marking product packaging
  • Outer packaging
  • Package marking and coding in wet production environments
  • Traceability/track and trace/identification
  • Use of FDA-compliant inks 

 Automotive & Aviation

  • Web printing
  • Seamless marking
  • Traceability/track and trace/identification
  • Special inks for the best durability on a wide assortment of different materials, e.g. heat-resistant inks
  • Printouts using inks approved and certified for aviation
  • Marking with light ink colors on dark backgrounds
  • Marking individual parts
  • Outer packaging
  • Comprehensive software and hardware accessories for easy and flexible integration of a printer in product lines 

 Construction

  • Permanent marking, abrasion-resistant inks
  • Imprinting in dusty or wet production environments
  • Marking using heat-resistant inks
  • Imprinting using UV-resistant inks
  • Heat-resistant inks for combustion processes
  • Marking absorbent material
  • Printing variable data
  • Traceability/track and trace/identification 

 Printing Industry

  • Personalization
  • Addressing
  • Prepaying
  • Numbering
  • Coding
  • Coding tax labels
  • Ticket production, lottery
  • Printing variable data
  • Software for mailings
  • Marking packaging
  • Use of FDA-compliant inks 

 Egg & Egg Carton Printing

  • Characters and numbers
  • Country of origin, farming conditions, producer code/company number
  • Laying date, expiration date or sell-by date
  • LOT numbers
  • Advertising messages
  • Company logos and seals of quality 

 Electrical & Electronics

  • Markings on the smallest electronic parts (microprints)
  • Using pigmented inks (opaque inks) for high contrast on different colored backgrounds
  • Special inks for the best durability, e.g. heat-resistant inks
  • Chemical resistance
  • Traceability/track and trace/identification
  • Protection against product piracy
  • Comprehensive software and hardware accessories for easy and flexible integration of a printer in product lines 
 

 Extrusion & Injection Molding

  • Traceability/track and trace/identification
  • Special inks for the best durability on a wide assortment of different materials, e.g. heat-resistant inks
  • Micro-printouts, particularly small font sizes down to 0.8 mm
  • Marking of light colors on dark backgrounds
  • Comprehensive software and hardware accessories for easy and flexible integration of a printer in product lines
  • High-speed markings 
 

 Beverage

  • Removable marking for returnable bottles/recyclable bottles (alkaline solution)
  • Permanent product labeling during delivery and use by end customer
  • Use of (soft) pigmented inks (opaque inks) for high contrast on darker backgrounds, e.g. for marking on brown or green beer bottles
  • Marking soft drinks
  • Marking wine and sparkling wine bottles
  • Coding spirits
  • Marking mineral water bottles
  • High production speeds (100,000 products/h)
  • Marking on the fly
  • Labeling primary packaging
  • Marking secondary packaging
  • Outer packaging
  • Concave or convex surfaces
  • Marking in wet production environments
  • Traceability/track and trace/identification
  • Use of FDA-compliant inks 
 

 Glass

  • Removable marking for returnable bottles/recyclable bottles (alkaline solution)
  • Traceability/track and trace/identification
  • Very high durability for the inks used
  • Print with light contrast inks on dark backgrounds
  • Use of (soft) pigmented inks (opaque inks), such as for marking brown or green beer bottles
  • Use of UV-resistant inks when marking
  • Use of FDA-compliant inks
  • Marking in wet production environments 
 

 High Security Printing

  • Numbering banknotes/bills/currencies
  • Numbering tax labels
  • Numbering passports/personal identification cards
  • Numbering vehicle documents
  • Numbering driver's licenses
  • Numbering fiduciary documents
  • Sheet-edge numbering via inkjet to keep track and trace of sheets (additional control feature)
  • Coding
  • In WEB printing machines (WEB presses)
  • In sheet printing machines
  • In collators
  • In special purpose machines
  • In rotary web printing with simultaneous numbering
  • User-programmable numbering sequences
  • 100% monitoring of each individual number wheel 
 

 Wood

  • Marking in the construction trade
  • Labeling furniture/furniture parts
  • Marking in dusty production environments
  • Inks for very absorbent substrates
  • Traceability/track and trace/identification 
 

 Cable, Tube, & Pipe

  • Marking after extrusion
  • Marking after wire drawing
  • Web printing
  • Using pigmented inks (opaque inks) for high contrast on different colored backgrounds
  • Special inks for the best durability, e.g. heat-resistant inks
  • Micro-printouts, particularly small font sizes down to 0.8 mm
  • Marking on the fly during very fast production speeds (high-speed meter markings)
  • Comprehensive software and hardware accessories for the cable printer for easy and flexible integration of a printer into product lines, such as rereelers/cable routing systems, etc. 
 

 Plastics

  • Traceability/track and trace/identification
  • Special inks for the best durability on a wide assortment of different materials, e.g. heat-resistant inks
  • Micro-printouts, particularly small font sizes down to 0.8 mm
  • Marking of light colors on dark backgrounds
  • Comprehensive software and hardware accessories for easy and flexible integration of a printer in product lines
 

 Food Industry

  • Imprinting primary packaging
  • Marking secondary packaging
  • Egg marking and coding
  • Outer packaging
  • Printing directly onto foodstuffs, i.e. for advertising and promotional campaigns
  • Marking in wet production environments
  • Traceability/track and trace/identification
  • Use of FDA-compliant inks 
 

 Metal & Steel

  • Special inks for the best durability, e.g. heat-resistant inks
  • Cleaning bath-resistant markings
  • Substituting labels
  • Using pigmented inks (opaque inks) for high contrast on different colored backgrounds
  • Marking after wire drawing
  • Protection against tampering
  • Comprehensive software and hardware accessories for easy and flexible integration of a printer in product lines
  • Marking automotive parts made of steel and metal
  • Imprinting aluminum spacers in window construction 
 

 Paper 

  • Marking in dusty production environments
  • Personalization
  • Numbering tax labels, lottery tickets, admission tickets
  • Coding
  • Printing variable data
  • Traceability/track and trace/identification
  • Marking packaging
  • Use of FDA-compliant inks 
 
 

 Pharmaceutical & Drugstore Products

  • Traceability/track and trace/identification
  • Counterfeit protection
  • Serialization
  • Direct printing on tablets, pills, capsules, etc.
  • Use of FDA-compliant inks
  • Microprints (up to 0.8 mm)
  • Labeling using invisible inks
  • Primary and secondary packages
  • Marking in wet production environments 
Not sure where to start?  You can check out some of our options by following the links below or contact us for an application-specific review to guarantee the proper application.  Our solutions range from small shop to full in-line integration - the possibilities are endless. 

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