Allen Coding's NGT Series of thermal transfer printers have been installed at the dried foods and snack products packer who supplies independent traders under its own brand and also provides contract packing for clients throughout the UK.
Nigel Robertshaw, technical & site manager at Country Products comments: “We have previous experience of using Allen Coding printers so it was a natural progression to look at new systems from them. As well as offering the print area specifications required, the NGT2 and NGT4 thermal transfer printers provided significant print quality and performance benefits and were able to meet all our client packaging variables. Plus both models were compatible with our older printers so there was no need to update the labelling software.”
Country Products chose two different models from Allen Coding’s NGT Series to enable it to apply data sets on both the front and rear of generic packaging film produced from polypropylene, polyester or laminate. The printers also apply vital product and nutritional details in line with the company’s commitment to meeting all new food information regulation requirements.
Allen Coding’s compact NGT2 and NGT4 printers have been mounted on a special frame at the rear of Country Products’ Gainsborough vertical form fill seal machine. The units are installed on 90 degree swivel brackets so that they can be easily turned by the operator, both to change thermal transfer ribbons and to move swiftly from one orientation to another for different client films.
New mounting bars were fitted onto existing brackets so Country Products was able to raise the height of the printers on the machine.
A wide variety of products are being handled by the vertical form fill seal machine, with packs ranging from 15g to 500g in weight. As a result, the Allen Coding NGT2 and NGT4 printers are operating at speeds up to approximately 30 packs per minute.
