New Videojet laser markers target high speed traceability and serialised coding demand

3 April 2014


Videojet has introduced an advanced range of CO2 laser marking systems, with the launch of its Videojet 3330 30 Watt and the Videojet 3130 10 Watt lasers.

According to the company, part of the US-based Danaher Corporation, the new 3330 and 3130 laser systems answer increasing demands for traceability marking, notably for serialised coding applications in the pharmaceutical, tobacco and cosmetics industries, as well as others.

“Delivering superior code quality across a range of marking speeds and suitable for a wide array of substrates, the 3330 and 3130 lasers mark simple and complex codes while providing easy integration for virtually any application,” the company says.

In applications where speed is the top priority, manufacturers can utilise the dot font mode in both the 3330 and 3130 to mark “up to 30% faster than vector fonts”, enabling print speeds up to 150,000 products per hour.

“With the recent passage of United States Drug Quality and Security Act, the European Union Falsified Medicines Directive, and similar legislation in Brazil and elsewhere, our customers are looking for high quality alphanumeric and datamatrix marking,” says Videojet Technologies Laser Business Unit manager Markus Vetter.

“The high resolution marking head on the 3330 and 3130, when supported with good material handling and proper line integration, can deliver consistently high quality datamatrix codes.”

For tobacco manufacturers, the 3330 and 3130 CO2 lasers are compatible with proposed industry association solutions to counter illicit trade, including the 12-digit unique alpha-numeric code format and machine-readable codes, such as a dotcode.

Videojet says the new 3330 and 3130 CO2 lasers feature “inherently low maintenance requirements and limited consumables”, with an air cooled laser source and optimised power settings reducing heat and providing high reliability by extending the life expectancy of the laser source up to 45,000 hours.

Videojet now claims to offer more than 20,000 standard configurations within its CO2 laser marking line including 21 mark window options and three laser wavelengths.

“The Videojet 3330 and 3130 laser marking systems offer the flexibility needed to deliver peak performance in a variety of challenging production environments,” says Vetter.

“The vast range of standard configurations, our substrate flexibility, and the high resolution marking heads all combine to deliver the marking performance customers need so they can achieve their production goals.”

www.videojet.com



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