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News Release from: Imaje UK | Subject: Imaje S4+ ink jet printers
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 16 March 2001
Ink jet printers code 500,000 units/week
St Davids Assemblies, one of the UK's largest manufacturers of kettle controls and safety cut-outs, has chosen Imaje S4+ ink jet printers to code directly onto the 500, 000 units/week.
St Davids Assemblies, part of Otter Controls and one of the UK's largest manufacturers of kettle controls and safety cut-outs, has chosen Imaje S4+ ink jet printers to code directly onto the 500, 000 units produced each week There is a wide range of products from electric kettles, through washing machines and fan heaters, to refrigerators and air conditioning units
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 11 Jan 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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Because the safety controls and cut-outs are used to minimise the risk of damage or fire in the event of misuse or malfunction, all of St Davids' production has to be coded to meet B.E.A.B.
or other national authority specification.
In addition to defining that the units must be traceable, the specification requires that the coding withstand a rigorous "rub test" to ensure that the coding will not become illegible during normal use.
It was the quality of the Imaje inks, combined with the clear printing of the S4+ onto the different materials used for the cut-outs, which impressed Works Services Manager, Alan Walters.
"We have to code every unit with a batch and serial number, a date code and a customer code in a very small area and the Imaje printers do this reliably at speed to match our automatic assembly machines.
An added benefit is the water flushing of the printheads which eliminates the fumes produced by printers which use solvent flushing." St Davids have five Imaje S4+ printers for printing yellow ink onto black components and one, older S3 for printing black onto white components.
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