Here’s an exclusive just for my blog subscribers. We just had our sales meeting where we released SP990, our new ultra-chemical resistant resin thermal transfer ribbon. What a blast! Our team had a day of hands on experiments in the lab to see firsthand how SP990 holds up to tough chemicals like xylene, toluene and brake-fluid.
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Introducing SP990 IIMAK’s Tough New Premier Resin
February 22nd, 20103 Pointers to Cash in with Flexible Packaging Ribbons
February 8th, 2010Last year, flexible packaging was the single vertical market that showed strong double digit growth in thermal transfer ribbons. That alone is a good enough reason to consider adding new ribbons to your product line! Here are a few things to consider before entering the in-line coding market: (more…)
Printing TTR in 2010
January 25th, 2010In the first two weeks of 2010, our print lab delivered 8 Application Print Tests to help customers close new business. Not surprisingly, four of them were for flexible packaging imprints – one of the fastest growing vertical markets in thermal transfer ribbons. Our lab runs three inline Markem Smartdate and Videojet Dataflex printers with continuous and intermittent processes up to 24 ips. Our customers provide the substrate, and we print with top-quality ribbons like NET FLEX, our new thermal transfer ribbon for flexible packaging, then evaluate print quality and durability. We find that smudge testing with our crockmeter is the best way to simulate the abrasion a package goes through on form, fill and seal lines. We also own more than 90 desktop and industrial thermal printers to perform just about any label test in the world. (more…)