Packaging has traditionally been printed to provide information about the product, such as branding, sell-by date, ingredients and nutritional content. The packaging acts as a functional barrier between the ink and the food, although care must be taken to ensure that ink components do not migrate across the barrier and contaminate the food through indirect contact.
Seeing the light: UV curable inkjet inks
Olivetti’s thermal inkjet technology
Xerox Production Inkjet System
Conventional wisdom often isn’t
Introduction to industrial inkjet printing
Is Memjet for real? Part 2
In April, I wrote that the first real Memjet-based products would be shown at IPEX the following month. Indeed, the RAPID X1 and X2 label printers, manufactured by Rapid Machinery Company of Australia, were introduced at the show, as well as the Astro Machines M1 printer from Addressing and Mailing Solutions of the UK.