Linx coder enables Hungary foods producer upgrade

15 October 2012


The installation of a new Linx IJ355 large character coder, from printer and coder supplier Linx Printing Technologies, is reducing costs for Hungary-based frozen food producer Mar-Ne-Váll Kft.

The Hungarian company, which makes the popular Ripp-Ropp range for central Europe, decided to switch from labelling to coding of boxes after a factory reconstruction and modernisation meant that labelling became “no longer economic”.

The Linx IJ355 machine, supplied through Linx’s Hungarian distributor partner Printec, codes up to 30 brown boxes/min with text, logos and EAN13 barcodes.

Linx says the IJ355 gives “significantly reduced downtime and savings on consumables” due to its ReFRESH ink system, robust design, and printhead protection technology.

“The patented ReFRESH system ensures premium print quality and avoids wasted ink during printhead cleaning, saving time and money ordinarily wasted on purging procedures,” Linx says.

The IJ355’s tough stainless-steel nozzle guard protects the printhead from possible damage caused by impact with the boxes on the line, while remaining close enough to the packaging to ensure a high print quality.

Mar-Ne-Váll production director Jozsef Veszelovszki says: “We are saving a lot with this modification. We studied and tested several products from many manufacturers and we found the price/value ratio is best from Linx and Printec. After three months we are satisfied with the performance and print quality.”

The Mar-Ne-Váll unit in Törökszentmiklós was established as Hungary’s first bread-crumbing plant in 1987. The plant started manufacturing popular bread-crumbed products by applying a then-unique technology and has since expanded its range under the Ripp-Ropp brand name.

Equipment from Linx Printing Technologies – a leading global supplier of continuous ink jet (CIJ) printers, case coders, laser coders, thermal transfer printers and thermal inkjet printers – is used across many different industries where product identification codes, batch numbers, dates and barcodes are required.


Linx coding applied to Ripp-Ropp frozen foods boxes



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