Joe Lynch

Mark Andy is to unveil a proprietary and industry unique recipe for ‘true digital hybrid shrink sleeve production’ for its Digital Series HD platform. To be unveiled at a shrink sleeve workshop next month, ‘Shrinking to Expand: A hands-on workshop to grow your business through shrink sleeves’, this development is said by the company to support the need for more profitable and productive shrink runs. Shrink sleeves are one of the newest application additions to the Digital Series HD’s production range. Citing figures from AWA Alexander Watson Associates, Mark Andy noted that the demand for shrink sleeves has incrementally increased [...]

Whether you have been in the printing industry for decades or you are just gaining some traction with a side project, there’s no doubt that you’re in need of some beautiful custom labels to get your products moving. The most basic question to tackle in your label journey — will digital printing work for me ? BENEFITS OF DIGITAL PRINTING Eco-friendly: Because the digital printing process does not use all of the extra chemicals and films to create plates, digital is a greener and cleaner way to build your brand. Quick Turnaround: Digital printing can be done super quickly! Because there [...]

By far the biggest driver for growth of the UV market is the rise of LED technology. UV LED is growing at almost six times that of mercury-based technologies. Today, it’s worth $200 million of the US$700 million market but will reach US$1 billion by 2023. Robert Rae, technology development manager at GEW, identifies a lower investment cost and greater availability of suitable products as changing the conversation when it comes to LED. ‘With LED inks now widely available and the cost of LEDs reducing at quite a rate, there are more and more LEDs in the market and the upward [...]

IMEC Media’s Aluminum Asset Tags are designed with extreme durability to withstand the harshest environments for indoor AND outdoor tracking applications. You determine label content of company name, asset number, and/or bar code information. These aluminum bar code labels are constructed of anodized aluminum face stock, with a high-performance permanent pressure-sensitive adhesive and/or holes for mechanical attachment. The adhesive is designed to permanently bond to high surface energy metals and plastics, and textured and contoured surfaces. These aluminum asset tags have excellent resistance to chemicals, abrasion, solvents; and will withstand exterior exposure in the harshest environments, including extreme cold, heat and UV. Product Features • Designed [...]

This article was originally written in 2010, an interesting read now to look back on RFID tag and its adoption as a technology since then. Most label converters have passed over the opportunity to move into RFID tag production because they cannot see a way of making profits from what is, on its own, a low value commodity item. Most of the big projects in the RFID sector have involved RFID inlay manufacturers making deals directly with end users. These large-scale roll-outs have had met with mixed success. Procter & Gamble and other CPGs, for example, have said they cannot get [...]