FOOD & BEVERAGE FEATURE
customer to customer, so product made on the same day might carry a slightly different expiry date depending on which retailer it is destined for. With a programmable function that calculates the correct expiry date for each product/customer, the RF Lite eliminates the risk of date coding errors. Following a successful two-week trial last
November, the RF Lite with ijet TIJ printer became a permanent fixture at
P.K.Foods Glasgow Ltd, coding on average 5000 sleeves per day. Stevenson reports that the coder has already paid for itself through labour savings and sleeve waste reduction: “We were employing at least two members of staff to hand stamp all day. Now one person just spends a couple of hours a day overprinting sleeves and the other staff have been redeployed on other picking and packing tasks.” He adds: “The superior print quality has
led to a vast improvement in clarity and a reduction in sleeve waste – formerly, with the manual handling and printing, one in every 10-15 sleeves would end up smudged or damaged.” One of the advantages of TIJ versus other coding technologies such as CIJ is the lower
cost of ownership. This is largely due to the only ongoing cost is the purchase of new cartridges maintenance, and consumable-free technology.
P.K.Foods Glasgow Ltd reports that it is finding the system to be very cost effective, getting 300,000 prints per cartridge. The company is also making use of the RF Lite’s in-built ‘grey scaling’ software to optimise usage per print on jobs that don’t demand true black print density. Supermarkets are just one route to
market for
P.K.Foods Glasgow Ltd. Wholesale, direct to retail, van sales and direct to consumer are other important channels. Historically, products for these customers have all carried labels rather than sleeves, but on the basis of the success of the RF Lite,
P.K.Foods Glasgow Ltd is planning to move them to sleeves. Stevenson does not yet know whether
the current RF Lite alone with be able to cope with this increased throughput, but says: “I wouldn’t hesitate to purchase another.”
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