Industrial Barcode Printers

Printing clear, reliable barcodes is a critical part of product manufacturing and packaging. Barcodes provide essential data like traceability, product origin, and nutritional information. With industrial barcode printing machines, businesses can meet high coding standards across various industries. 

What is a barcode?

A industrial barcode is a machine-readable code made of black lines and white spaces that represent numbers and characters. Common barcode formats include: 

• QR Codes – Ideal for sharing detailed product information. 

• UPC (Universal Product Code) – Widely used in retail. 

• EAN (European Article Number) – Popular for international trade. 

Barcodes simplify product identification and streamline operations in manufacturing and retail. 

How are barcodes generated?

Linx barcode printing machines offer built-in interfaces to generate and print standard barcodes directly onto products. Key features include: 

• Laser Barcode Printers: Equipped with the Linx Vision interface, allowing users to create GS1-compliant barcodes with ease. 

• Inkjet Barcode Printers: Compatible with CLARiSOFT software for designing custom codes, ensuring consistent and accurate printing. 

For unique barcode needs, third-party software integration is available. 

Industrial Barcode Printing

For any application or code used, the information they carry will not be available if the quality of the print is not good. Only high-quality, clearly visible and readable codes serve their purpose. Therefore, when thinking of applying barcodes to products, it is important to take into consideration: 

• The technology used and if it is adequate to the material/substrate of the products – are you able to create visible Industrial Barcode with inkjet technology or do you need a laser? 

• The environment in which the product is manufactured and what impact it has to the code application. Are the conditions hot, cold, wet, and dusty and will that affect code application technology? 

• The longevity and durability of the code. Do you need a permanent marking solution, i.e. laser, or will your code application be durable with inkjet using suitable inks? 

Whatever the application or product, Linx has a technology and Industrial barcode printers suitable to your needs. 

Linx barcode printing machines ensure that printed barcodes are consistently clear and meet the highest coding standards. Our barcode printers were designed with the ability to print barcodes on a variety of substrates. Users can replace expensive labels and pre-printed packaging waste with barcodes applied directly to their products.

Industrial Barcode Printers

Our user-friendly interface of barcode printing machines make programming a new barcode a simple task. The colour touch screens make it easy to format and save barcodes, including the ability to scale and size on the machine for a smooth barcode printing process. Many of Linx’s barcode printers are also equipped to print QR codes and data matrix codes. 

Linx’s range of industrial barcode printing machines are designed to meet your primary and secondary packaging needs. We ensure that our barcode printing machine will work for your production space and free sampling is available upon request. Increase your productivity and minimise waste today. 

Continuous Ink Jet Coders

Linx CIJ printers are designed to be durable and provide the highest standards of coding quality. Using self-cleaning printhead technology, our CIJ printers are reliable and suitable to print on many substrates. It is the most customizable option with inks that can be applied to nearly any substrate; even food-safe inks for prints that come in direct contact with ingestible products! 

Linx CIJ coders are renowned for their flexibility, clean operation, and reliability to cope with long hours of operation.

• Reliable printers with long servicing intervals
• Visible, durable and highest-quality of codes printed
• Range of inks for specialist marking, e.g. food grade, invisible/UV coding
• Optional IP protection for harsh environments
• Suitable to print on any shape, size, texture, porosity, etc

Large Character Printers

Our Large Character Marking (LCM) printers are mostly used to print onto secondary packaging. With the ability to print clear text and graphics onto porous substrates, they are a cost-effective alternative to labels and pre-printed boxes.

Linx Large Character Printers provide high-resolution printing and are easy to set up and adjust. High adhesion ink for porous surfaces of cardboard cartons used across distribution chains to make certain the printed codes remain legible even after extensive handling.

• Ideal for barcodes printing on secondary packaging
• High-resolution codes printing even on difficult packaging substrates
• Print text, logo and graphics up to 75mm high
• Can print onto vertical substrates

Laser Coders

If you are after permanent code printing on substrates such as glass or metal, laser printers are an ideal solution for you. With no need for consumables, lasers provide a low operating cost product marking solution with permanent barcodes.

Laser marking is one of the most reliable, versatile, and cost-efficient marking methods available. Barcode coding is done using indelible marks for even the most highly regulated industries. With accuracy guaranteed, laser coders are a great option for applying barcodes at high speeds.

All types of barcodes can be printed with lasers: their wide marking area allows you to print graphics onto larger areas. Plus, barcode generation comes as standard with Linx Vision user interface built in. 

• Permanent marking capability
• Designed to use in challenging, high-speed environments 
• Excellent code quality due to precise laser beam 
• Versatile with any orientation coding capabilities
• Ideal for applying barcodes on various substrates

Inks

Linx offers a variety of inks that can be used with our CIJ printers. From non-MEK to food grade and UV inks, you will find the colour and composition best for your application. We offer a variety of inks:

• general purpose, 
• special adherence, 
• contrasting, 
• food grade 
• Coloured
• Security (UV readable)
• Process specific

Using our inks and solvents to print your barcodes means you have the highest quality adhesion and readability.

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