Thermal transfer printers
Family owned Country Products, which packs dried foods and snack products, turned to marking and coding specialist Allen Coding when it needed to upgrade its main production line at its North Yorkshire, UK plant to cope with extra capacity and minimise downtime.
The company opted for the NGT Series of versatile thermal transfer printers. Nigel Robertshaw, technical & site manager at Country Products, comments, “We have previous experience of using Allen Coding printers so it was a natural progression to look at new systems from them. As well as offering the print area specifications required, the NGT2 and NGT4 thermal transfer printers provided significant print quality and performance benefits and were able to meet all our client packaging variables. Plus, both models were compatible with our older printers so there was no need to update the labelling software.”
The NGT Series printers enable the company to apply data sets on both the front and rear of generic packaging film produced from polypropylene, polyester or laminate. A variety of products are being handled by the vertical form fill seal machine, with packs ranging from 15g to 500g in weight. As a result, the NGT2 and NGT4 printers are operating at speeds of up to approximately 30 packs per minute.
