Inkjet Print Head for High Speed Labelling

Markings are a very important part of automated cutting. Accurate labelling and marking for seam allowances and part positions can speed up your production just as much as the cutting process.  

An inkjet head lets you more print pattern labels and reference information, much faster than you can do with a conventional marker or pen. 

The two big advantages of inkjet print heads on automated cutters are speed and zero contact.

Marking patterns with order details can take some time with a pen but it's barely a couple of seconds with an inkjet print head. Adding all the extra information like size, date, customer name, order number etc. only takes a fraction longer than doing the minimum marking that you'd do with a pen and it saves so much time and mistakes down the line.

Zero contact marking is the other big advantage of inkjet printing. You can mark coarse, woven, porous, mesh and all sorts of other materials quickly and easily.  

Reliable and low maintenance. The HP style cartridge contains not just the ink but the inkjet nozzles. Most inks have a good balance between quick drying on the job and not drying and clogging the nozzles but if a cartridge is left in the print head over the holiday, changing the cartridge will fix the nozzles. 

With a printhead, the speed of labelling stops being an issue, so you can print all the text you need in labels and reference markings.

The range of coloured inks isn't huge but it's enough for most labelling and marking purposes.

White ink is available and while it's not as readable as dark inks, with Tangent's multi-pass option, you can get great print quality.

UV light visible ink is also an option so markings can be seen in production and be invisible on the job.

Inks have been tested in many aerospace and military applications and passed for marking sensitive materials.

Printing on coarse materials becomes easy and problem free compared with marking with a pen.