A contract packager's life is anything but easy and predictable, so any help they can get from their technology suppliers to run their operations flexibly and cost-effectively is naturally welcomed and embraced with open arms. Which is exactly how things unfolded last year at the Universal Flexible Packaging confectioneries co-packing plant in Leicester, England, where the family-run business was so impressed with a trial run of the Linx CJ400 continuous inkjet (CIJ) printer-manufactured in the U.K. by Linx Printing Technologies-that it proceeded to purchase six Linx CJ400 models to replace the various thermal-transfer, label and drop-on-demand printers it was using before. "We simply turn them on at the beginning of a shift and turn them off at the end," says the plant's engineering supervisor Steve Potter.
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