British chocolate firm upgrades coding

UK chocolate company Montezuma has installed a Hitachi RX-S small character continuous inkjet printer to use for printing on its product packaging.

Founded in Brighton in 2000, Montezuma is a leading luxury chocolate maker in the UK, with five shops located across the south of England and its products available in more than 2,500 fine food stores around the UK.

The Chichester-based manufacturer of chocolate gifts and luxury handmade chocolate bars selected the Hitachi RX-S printer, which was supplied by Allen Coding Systems, for its ease of operation and speed, and now operates on Montezuma’s production lines at up to 60ppm, printing date codes onto gloss cardboard for a number of different products of various shapes and sizes.

It has replaced date gunning by batch, as well as the manual application of labels as the products come down the line. Dates are now printed on to the finished products before they are packed in to the outer cases.

Wesley James Cole, general operations manager at Montezuma, said: ‘Allen Coding was recommended to us and since contacting them the service has been great.

‘On the few occasions when new programs were being created for new products to be presented to the system, Allen Coding worked out any technical queries immediately while we were learning to use the new printer.

‘The RX-S has been easy to install, learn and maintain and the quality of print is always good.’

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