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Most professional and industrial label printers let you choose between two thermal printing methods for label printing: thermal transfer and direct thermal. Which method should you choose for your business application? Here’s everything you need to know for perfect label results!
Bottle-to-bottle recycling offers significant ecological and economic benefits—but only if packaging components support a clean material stream. In this article, we explore how beverage labels, sleeves, inks and direct marking methods influence PET and glass recycling. Drawing on practical industry expertise, we present wash-off labels, recyclable sleeves, inkjet coding and label-free concepts that help beverage manufacturers improve sustainability without compromising efficiency or compliance.
Whether it’s medicine, food or cosmetics: when opening certain products, we really want to be sure that they have not been tampered with. Since February 2019, over-the-counter medicines must be tamper-proof, or tamper evident proof. It is one of the security features within serialization of the European Parliament to combat counterfeit medicines. In this post, we take you into the world of tamper evident labels, show you how labeling works and how the pharmaceutical industry is fighting drug fraud.
Food products must be clearly labeled to ensure traceability, transparency, and consumer safety. However, the most suitable technology depends on the product, packaging, and production process. Bluhm Systeme has extensive experience in food labeling and presents several solutions in this article – from inkjet printing directly on products or cartons to automated labeling of packaging and pallets.
RFID labels create the foundation for transparent and automated processes in industry and logistics. The durable transponders enable contactless identification without line of sight, capture multiple items simultaneously, and store unique EPC codes. Bluhm Systeme provides scalable solutions ranging from mobile slap-and-ship systems to fully automated print-code-and-apply processes, including customized, high-performance software.
Weber Marking Systems’ easy-to-integrate label printer and dispensers are high-tech, advanced technological solutions designed and crafted to take part in industrial environments. Our product line ranges from identifying and marking the product itself – thus primary packaging identification – to marking or labeling the product’s packaging (e.g. boxes, case shippers in the case of pharmaceuticals, envelopes in the case of e-commerce) and last but not least, the identification and label-application on pallet.
Pallets are best known as tertiary packaging in the industrial jargon and consist of many boxes put together and wrapped in plastic film – thus palletized – for simplifying large badges transportation. However, pallets are not meant just to facilitate the transportation of goods, but aim also at guaranteeing safety and traceability. For this reason, production and the whole supply chain use pallets to track, trace and identify badges. In this article, we dive into pallet-identification and pallet-labeling, putting on the spotlight traceability and safety during shipping within different sectors, warehouses, and logistics.
LPN Labelling is used in an internal track & trace system and can be applied to various processes. This gives you real-time insight into stocks, the location of goods and the status of orders. An LPN Label is a label with a reference number, or a License Plate Number (LPN). An LPN Label is a pre-printed label with a unique number, which only fits on one pallet or one box.
The product packaging (box, envelope, bag or float packaging) is labelled with an LPN Label. Information about the relevant packaging is linked to the License Plate Number, such as relevant dates, batch numbers, colour codes or hazards. When the LPN Label is scanned elsewhere in the warehouse, the person in charge knows exactly what should happen to it, where it should go, what it contains and what the dangers are.
The UKCA mark is gradually replacing the CE marking for products placed on the market in Great Britain after Brexit. This article explains which product groups are affected, what transition periods apply, and what manufacturers need to consider now. Learn how conformity assessment procedures compare to CE requirements, what special rules apply to Northern Ireland, and how to adapt your product labeling in a compliant and efficient way.
At Bluhm Weber headquarters, we develop, design, and manufacture innovative labeling solutions for a wide range of industries—such as the wood industry. After many wooden beams are cut to size, the individual boards must be labeled with barcode labels so that, among other things, the origin of the wood can be accurately identified later. The rough wood surface and the dusty production environment pose a challenge. Find out which print-apply labeling system reliably and cleanly marks these natural products despite these conditions.
Ordered today, delivered tomorrow. That is what the customer wants and what you want to deliver. With optimal and automated e-commerce logistics, you will succeed. Whether you have 50 orders per day or 1000 orders per hour, shipping optimization pays off. What are you waiting for? Start now before it’s too late!