Labeling Solutions in the US has developed a new label printer Epson TM-C3400, which uses durabrite inks that are ideal for seafood labeling.
The company selected an eight mil poly tag to addres the requirements of the seafood packaging application. The tags are certified by the BS5609 certification process, making the tag durable, and also enabling the seafood labeling tags to be printed at a better quality.
Labeling Solutions president Donald Tomkinson said the company has an opportunity in the seafood industry with a customer who needed to classify fresh-caught inventory on a daily basis, replacing manual counting which is tedious.
"Based on these requirements, we started looking for a color printer that could produce on-demand, color-code tags with 2D barcodes and text," Tomkinson said.
The company claimed that it printed 6,000 tags with 32 different classifications for the initial print job and has expanded to another 2,000 tags.
To make it easier for the workers to identify the category of seafood quickly, each tag has a 2D barcode, text and color code.
