Printers picked for reliability

Family-owned fresh produce business S&A Group in the U.K. is using Zodiac thermal-transfer overprinters to help reduce packaging costs and increase coding efficiency across its two production sites in Herefordshire and Kent.

Legible and reliable printing for produce packs.
Legible and reliable printing for produce packs.

The 18 Zodiac printers, from Interactive Coding Equipment, are integrated with tray sealers and are being used to print variable information directly onto film on heat-seal trays. They have replaced in-jet coders printing onto pre-printed labeled lids, a process that S&A found was not able to cope with the increases in the volume of produce they were experiencing.

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