Direct part marking food packaging often requires that the marking components have specific properties. Ink for food packaging, specifically, needs to meet a few key criteria. To understand what to look for in food packaging marking solutions, it is necessary to look at why we mark food packaging and the unique challenges inherent in this type of packaging.
Topics: Food and Beverage, Ink Jet Fluids
Hot stamping or foil stamping is a printing method where metal hot stamp dies are transferred at high temperatures to the surface being marked.
The process includes a hot stamping machine (or hot stamping press) and steel, brass, or magnesium type (interchangeable characters) or a solid logo die. Adding a hot stamping foil delivers a mark with color.
Topics: Hot Stamping, Hot Stamping Type and Dies
For companies that have been certified by the American Petroleum Institute (API), the API quality stamp is a mark of pride and a commitment to quality.
Topics: Hand Stamps, APIQ Logo Steel Stamps
Portable and lightweight, hand held ink jet printer guns allow users to directly mark substrates in the field with a portable, easy-to-use, hand held marking “gun.”
Topics: Portable Inkjet Printers
Nephron Pharmaceuticals Corporation, located in West Columbia, SC, is a pharmaceutical manufacturing company specializing in producing affordable respiratory products using blow-fill-seal (B/F/S) technology.
And, like all companies supplying these types of products, medical regulations require them to identify the lot and date of manufacture for each dose.
Topics: Package Date Coding, Pharmaceutical, Testimonial
Hot foil stamping is a popular marking solution for a wide range of applications. Our pigmented hot stamping foils (most commonly used for date coding) are popular because they are abrasion-resistant and durable, offering a long service life of clear and legible impressions.
There are many reasons to mark plastic, but with the increasing popularity of plastic packaging, for everything from milk to motor oil, it’s no surprise that the most common reason for marking plastic is to apply an expiration date to a food or beverage item.
So, what options do you have for printing expiration dates on plastic?
Topics: Package Date Coding, JetStamp, Rubber Stamps, Industrial Ink Jet Printers, Plastic
John Pegg, creator and owner of Kerosene Fragrances in Marysville, Michigan had a problem.
His elbow hurt.
Topics: Impact Presses, Steel Type, Steel Type Holders, Brass, Testimonial
One of Durable Technologies' long-time customers is a global leader in manufacturing generic respiratory medications. Their products are available to retail pharmacies, hospitals, home care companies, long-term care facilities, mail-order pharmacies, and various other customers.
Many of their products are produced using B/F/S technology or Blow/Fill/Seal machines that use a variety of metal hot stamping coding type to imprint a date code, serial number, part number, and any other product identification into single serve vials.
Topics: Medical, Package Date Coding, Pharmaceutical, Norwood type, Coding Type and Dies, Testimonial
One of our most popular marking solutions is the hand stamp. Steel hand stamps are versatile and long-lasting, made from a special grade of tool steel to resist spalling and mushrooming.
Steel hand stamps also allow for a wide range of design options and can be custom made to satisfy almost any part marking requirement. If you've never used a hand stamp before, it can be hard at first to figure out how to choose the right stamp for your project.
Topics: Custom Steel Hand Stamps, Hand Stamps, Handheld Marking, Buttress Steep Stamps, 452 Style Font Steel Hand Stamps, Reverse Character Steel Hand Stamps, Hevi-Bevl Hand Stamps, Low Stress Dot Character Hand Stamps, Low Stress Full Character Hand Stamps, Border Steel Hand Stamps