Case Study #2 – Industrial Printing Solutions
A large plastic injection molding firm asked for assistance with a change in their production requirements, based on their customer’s ordering preferences.
The facility is highly automated and parts are printed in-line. However, the customer was seeing their market shift toward multi-color images, as well as shorter print runs on the same series of molded parts. Their current technology allowed only single-color images, and required a minimum of 30-45 minutes for job changeovers, and more if the color had to change, as well.
We offered a solution based around our own industrial inkjet technology, which provide the following advantages:
- No loss in throughput
- Multi-color images
- Less ink waste
- Immediate curing
- Job changeover in seconds, not minutes
- Order entry could be done remotely, integrating with their own software
- Parts could also be counted, bagged and bags labeled automatically
Our industrial inkjet printer was able to be easily integrated with third-party provided feeding systems as well as the bagger / label unit on the back end.
This custom solution has allowed our client to be more flexible and more responsive to their customer’s wishes, while saving labor as well as reducing waste re: parts and ink.