What do you do when you buy certain things from the market? The first thing we do is observing the products and labels for specific information. Labels are one of the used to be part of any product these days. These labels offer all essential information about the products. It is mandatory for almost all products to have labels offering certain essential information. Accordingly, a wide variety of labels are seen in the market. Hence, the demand and supply principle of the market has led to emergence of a wide variety of label printing machines. It is interesting to review the types of label printing machines available today. This article gives a quick review of a variety of label printing machines.
The necessity of type of label for different products varies significantly and it also depends on the information to be displayed on it. For example, food products need labels with manufacturing date, best use before time span, price etc. It also needs branding labels showing awesome product pictures, brand name etc. Some products need bar codes for product identification and tracking inventory. Some products need labels showing warnings, instructions of how to use etc. Thus, label printing requirements vary as per label information and products. Obviously, technology has provided a plenty of label printing devices fulfilling every specific label printing requirement. Just ask for a specific requirement and you will get printing machines designed for specific requirements.
Though, there is a huge variety of label printing machines, there are three main printing technologies used in these machines. These technologies are –
- Flexographic printing technology is a traditional technique of printing.
- Direct thermal printing implies use of heat for printing with heat sensitive media.
- Thermal transfer printing where heat melts the ribbon ink which is absorbed on the printing media.
- Barcode printers, name tags, RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) tags, price tag printers. These printing machines mainly implement direct thermal printing technique.
- A wide variety of inkjet and laser label printing machines have been developed to fulfill the market requirements. You will find black or 4 color and multicolor label printers developed for desktop as well as industrial applications.
