What is industrial printing?
Industrial printing refers to the printing carried out on products and packaging within manufacturing and production environments. It covers a wide range of applications, from high-quality full-colour printing presses to label printers, outer case coders, and direct-to-product marking. Unlike office or home printing, industrial printing takes place in situ on production lines, supporting efficient, lean operations by reducing the need for pre-printed packaging, labels, and materials.
Why do you need an industrial printer?
Industrial coders do not put the ‘gloss on the product’, they are a functional, but vital component in the manufacturing process. Whether you are printing best before end dates, batch codes, barcodes, QR codes or variable data onto packaging, the printed codes must be of consistent high quality to comply with traceability, legislation, and industry demands.
Linx Industrial Printers
Since 1987, Linx has been a trusted industrial printer manufacturer supplying a comprehensive range of coders onto production lines to provide traceability and best before end (BBE) information, enabling customers to meet legal requirements and keep end users safe.
Linx’s industrial printers are a critical component of coding and marking on production lines and operate across the full array of production environments from food to pharmaceutical, automotive parts to plant passport marking, and everything in between. They seamlessly integrate onto your existing lines, keeping downtime to a minimum and optimise overall equipment effectiveness.
Linx’s range of industrial printers are renowned for their easy set up capabilities with intuitive user interfaces and large, colour touch screen functionality. Operators can process their work faster and more accurately even with frequent code changes giving them confidence in the equipment. Maintenance requirements are kept to a minimum allowing production managers to schedule work with the minimum of disruption.
Linx offers comprehensive, heavy duty printers through to lower cost options where budget is limited. All are backed with Linx’s extensive expertise and friendly service, so you can have complete confidence you are in safe hands and can get the job done on time, without the worry of expensive re-works, rejects or fines.
What’s available?
The Linx industrial coding range makes use of various technologies:
Continuous ink jets which are ideal for printing variable information such as best before end dates or batch codes.
Laser coders provide permanent traceability and are particularly suitable for food, beverage and pharmaceutical applications.
Large character printers can print directly onto porous substrates such as card and wood and offer a cost-effective alternative to labels and pre-printed boxes.
Thermal transfer overprinters are suitable for printing onto a wide variety of flexible packaging including film packaging, labels, plastics and other flexible materials.
Technology Guides
Continuous Ink Jet (CIJ)
Print onto almost any material, at most speeds, and in any orientation, on flat or uneven surfaces.
Piezo Ink jet
Reduce production costs by replacing labels and pre-printed packaging by printing direct to outer packaging materials.
Thermal Transfer Overprinting
Solvent-free printing on a range of substrates including plastic films, flat packaging, label stock, plastic and foil.
