Clipper cuts costs with Linx printers

Fairtrade tea manufacturer Clipper Tea has installed four more printers from coding and marking specialist Linx Printing Technologies.
 
Clipper said it chose the Linx 7300 Continuous Ink Jet printers due to their low cost, ease of use, minimized downtime and extensive features including a USB backup facility. Clipper used Linx Printing Technologies’ CompleteCode leasing method, which covers all costs within one monthly payment. It brings to eight the total number of Linx printers operated by Clipper.
 
The Linx printers are being used to print ‘Best Before End’ dates and traceability codes, for internal use, onto cardboard boxes containing Clipper’s range of Fairtrade and organic tea bags. Linx Black fast-drying 1240 ink is being used and the production line operates eight hours a day, five days a week for 50 weeks of the year.
 
Linx said the 7300 is designed to avoid the hidden costs of coding through the lowest possible running costs, minimized production downtime, error-free coding and future-proofing. Among its features are dynamically adjusted service intervals to ensure customers only pay for vital maintenance, the Linx FullFlush automatic print head cleaning system, mistake-proof refills with the new SureFill system and error-free code changes with QuickSwitch software.
 
Steve Norris, engineering and maintenance manager for Clipper, said: ‘Reliability, cost and after-sales support were the biggest factors for choosing Linx again when we were reviewing our current printer needs.’