Industrial Inkjet
Wet-on-wet printing

Which coding and marking system is used to implement this printing technology?

High-resolution inkjet printers and inline print control

Innovative wet-on-wet printing is implemented with the REA Jet HR Inkjet Printer. With HP cartridge technology and a resolution of up to 600 dpi, it prints codes, texts and logos in a single work step – in direct succession, without interruption or drying time. Thanks to the use of newly developed inks, smooth or transparent surfaces such as foils, plastic or metal can be marked cleanly, environmentally friendly and solvent-free. The result is high-contrast, clearly readable, permanent and all this at high printing speeds.

Each print head produces print images with a height of up to 12.7 millimetres, and several print heads can be cascaded for images up to 50.8 millimetres high.

Hot swap function

The “hot swap function” enables cartridges to be changed during operation. As each cartridge is supplied with a new print head, the system is maintenance-free, ensuring uninterrupted product marking. Heatable print heads ensure consistently high print quality even in cold production environments.

Inline printing process

The wet-on-wet printing process can be ideally combined with the innovative REA inline OCR solution: Mounted above the conveyor belt and equipped with powerful optical text recognition (OCR) software, a camera system reads markings and codes on the passing product packaging and verifies them for accuracy. Capture and complete evaluation are completed in the shortest possible time, at just 70 milliseconds per print element. Fully integrated into the production and packaging process, it ensures that only fully and correctly labeled goods are delivered.