New Product For Thermal Transfer Printers, Ribbon Leader Guide!
After being in the industry for over 20 years, I have a new product that I am giving away. I call it the “Ribbon Leader Guide”. How many times have you had trouble threading your printer with ribbon, especially if you change ribbon before the ribbon is completely out or for some reason the ribbon breaks in the middle of a print run? It is always a challenge to get the ribbon threaded through the printer. I have come up with a rigid label tag stock with a slit that you can attach the ribbon to and feed it into the printer. Once it comes out past the print head, remove the...
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I have a customer with a Markem LP 8400 that is printing colored labels for an outdoor application. The problem they are having is this machine is 10 years old and it is obsolete. Markem is not supporting this equipment anymore. Not only are they having trouble getting parts, they are having trouble getting supplies, labels and ribbons. Over the past 14 months, I have been working on finding a solution with flexographic inks that would withstand the rigorous testing procedures and last out doors many years. The problem with flexographic inks is that they fade outside in a very...
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