Videojet's Product Range Strengthened After Merger

Videojet made its first public appearance at the Total Show 2004 since its merger with Willett International.

Videojet made its first public appearance at the Total Show 2004 since its merger with Willett International.

As a result, the company believes its product profile has never been stronger and in addition to proven systems, visitors also saw several new introductions.

Videojet said is now able to provide a coding and marking system to suit virtually any application and budget.

Total was Videojet's first major show since becoming part of Danaher Corporation, a development that provides both long-term security and considerable resources for growth, said the company.

The recent acquisition by Danaher of Accusort has also brought code verification into the Group.

Videojet introduced the Videojet 43S small character ink jet printer at Total at Birmingham's NEC (UK).

The system delivers reliable, consistent operation for a wide range of printing applications.

The combination of clean start and clean stop features automates regular printhead cleaning, increasing uptime.

This printer is said to be also easy to use, with an instinctive, drop-down menu operator interface and WYSIWYG message creation and editing with a large, well-lit display and membrane touch keypad.

The second newcomer to the inkjet range is the Willett 620 modular, medium to large character printer.

The printer uses 'micro-valve' technology, typically for outer-case coding.

Precision drop placement ensures superior print quality of up to 40dpi and because the print heads build messages with a large number of small dots - not the smaller number of large dots of competitive models - fluid consumption is significantly reduced.

Printer control is via a colour touch screen graphical user interface.

That is said to make operation easy and enables languages and character sets to be changed simply, without lengthy software reconfigurations.

The Willett 620 is designed to run with many types of fluids, providing maximum flexibility with substrates and drying times.

To provide specialist support for its laser product range, Videojet has appointed Jon Pritchard as product manager.

Videojet's Focus S-Series laser has now achieved over 700 installations in a variety of applications such as food, beverage, pharmaceutical and automotive, amongst others.

The range of CO2 lasers has been recently enhanced with the introduction of the new Focus S60 high-speed steered beam laser coding system.

The Focus S60 now allows high-speed applications such as PET bottling lines to benefit from the high print quality of steered beam technology compared to older dot matrix laser based technologies.

The second addition to the Focus S-Series range is the new Graphical User Interface.

The colour touch screen now allows for simpler operation and with the ability to password protect, user activities can be logged, whilst operators' screens can be customised.

Potential operator errors, which can cost large amounts of money due to product recalls, can be kept to a minimum.

The final addition to the Focus S-Series is the ability to allow customers to conform to the 21 CFR Part 11 pharmaceutical regulations that is enforced on suppliers to the United States of America.

Principally the system has the ability to capture all user's interactions of the system by a comprehensive password protection system, the information captured can then be exported to a secure location which can be viewed by the Federal Drug's Administration (FDA) or the user at a later date.

Videojet has also introduced the DataflexT thermal transfer overprinter.

Designed for coding on flexible packaging it has a low cost of operation across a wide range of applications.

It has the ability to run in either intermittent or continuous mode, providing one-system-compatibility with all form, fill, and seal variations.

The clutchless, bi-directional ribbon drive in the DataFlexT system decreases downtime and operating cost by maintaining correct ribbon tension.

This reduces ribbon breaks and drastically improves print quality.

The user interface features a colour touch screen with graphical icon-driven controls, making it easy to learn and simple to use.

Videojet also supplies mailing systems that allow high print speeds and the rotation of text and graphics.

They have the ability to import a wide range of files and format, a large choice of fast drying inks and easy colour change.

System resolution is 600 x 600 dpi.

Displayed from the range at the Total show was the Printmail WideArray.

It has a wide print band and demonstrated on a Cheshire 7000 inkjet base with vacuum transport, the system ran a combination of 5cm and 10cm printheads to achieve print widths of 10cms, 15cms and 20cms.

Install kits also enable print widths to be extended as the need arises.

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