Quick-start printers save time and ink

摘要

Poppies international, Inc., Battleboro, NC, produces a range of frozen desserts-including various cream puffs and eclairs-packaged in polypropylene plastic tubs or zipper bags in clay-coated paperboard boxes from proprietary suppliers. These products are marketed nationwide to retail and foodservice operations. The company had been using a black-ink, wax-jet printer to accommodate the identification and expiration-date coding of these products. But Poppies wanted better contrast on different colored packages. The dessert maker also was interested in reducing line downtime caused by printing/coding problems and minimizing the need to replace expensive spare parts on the printing/coding equipment.