 Article |  9 tips for buying coding/marking systems for primary
packaging  The following practices are recommended to those
specifying coding and marking equipment for primary packaging:
Print Reprint FILED IN:  Machinery  > Coding/marking  1.
Understand your distribution cycle. Understanding the
distribution cycle for your packaging is extremely important. If
you’re packing and shipping a refrigerated item, it will go
through a cold chain consisting of freezers and refrigerators.
If the ink and glue on the label isn’t designed for your
distribution cycle, it is at risk of falling off. By the nature
of your process, you may have different environments; the
challenges can be made more complex by the packaging materials
and containers themselves. 2. Know your legibility requirements
up front. Ink-jet doesn’t work for logos on a primary package.
Some types of ink-jet technologies don’t do bar codes well; use
thermal transfer for bar code applications. Specify to the
vendor the grade, printing substrate, and pri