What Are The Differences between Contact Date Printers

The contact date printer is in direct contact with the product or packaging surface being coded. In addition to printing production date, shelf life, can also print production batch number, logo image, text, one-dimensional code, QR code and so on.

Thermal transfer printing intelligent date coding machine

The thermal transfer intelligent coding machine requires a thermal transfer print head and thermal transfer ribbon to contact with the packaging material, and the ink on the ribbon is melted and transferred to the packaging material through instant heating. Intelligent control allows heating points to print dates and various contents on the packaging material. The TTO is suitable for a variety of flat flexible packaging films, labels and smooth paper. Usually this type of coding machine and packaging machine integration, printing numbers, letters, text, logo graphics, bar codes, etc., on the production line, the more common printing content is the production date, shelf life, production batch number.

advantage

1, printing speed up to 600mm/s or more

2, print quality is clear

3, intelligent control, avoid human work errors, misprinting, printing and other errors

4, support printing variable real-time time information

5. Low cost of operation

6, boot immediately, no need to preheat

shortcoming

1, the early investment cost is high

2, suitable for large-scale production line, not suitable for small production

Ink Roll Coder

The ink roll coding machine relies on the copper character in contact with the packaging material, first to contact with the heated ink wheel, the melted ink is transferred to the character, and then contact with the packaging material by mechanical pressure to form the printing content.

advantage

1, the cost of the machine and ink wheel is low

2. Fast printing speed

3, simple operation

shortcoming

1. Lack of print quality

2, can not print real-time variables, graphics and bar codes

3, each time you need to preheat for about 20 minutes

4, the replacement of the word is easy to produce errors resulting in waste

5, easy to break the phenomenon of packaging film

Hot ribbon Stamp machine

Hot stamping date coding machine is a coding method that transfers the ink on the ttr ribbon to the packaging material through mechanical pressure at a high temperature.

advantage

1. Machines and ribbons are cheap

2, several machine linkage printing

shortcoming

1, the ribbon length is short, usually between 100 meters and 150 meters

2, the ribbon consumption is far more than the ink wheel, does not have the function of saving ribbon

3, the current market is generally used for intermittent, slow

4, lack of print quality, can not print real-time variables, graphics and bar codes,

5, each time you need to preheat for about 20 minutes,

6, the replacement of the word is easy to produce errors resulting in errors and leaks

7, easy to Pierce the packaging film

Ink Roll Coder and Hot ribbon Stamp machine are traditional contact coding machines. Thermal transfer intelligent coding machine (TTO) is a new type of contact coding machine.