Printing on Plastics with Inkjet, Laser, or Thermal Transfer Printers

Industrial plastic printers to print date code, lot code, bar code, variable data on a variety of surfaces like plastic bottles, plastic pipe, corrugated plastic, PET, flexible packaging

Desired Contrast: Determine if a high contrast code or a less prominent code is more desirable for your product
Ink Adhesion: Videojet will help evaluate your product and packaging characteristics to identify the ideal solution for printing on plastic
Perform sample tests: Videojet can help determine if a technology meets your coding needs by testing for contrast, permanence and placement on your plastic containers

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Industrial Inkjet and Laser Printers for Printing on Plastics

Printing on PET Bottles

Videojet’s application expertise in PET marking spans many years, including deep knowledge of trends such as lightweighting. PET bottles are most commonly marked using Continuous Inkjet (CIJ) and laser printing solutions.

Printing on Plastic Rigid Containers

Our selection of inks for Continuous Inkjet printers provide quality marks on Polyethylene (PE) and High-density polyethylene (HDPE). With relatively low surface energy, these plastics can be challenging to mark

Expiration Code on Plastic Bottles

Pharmaceutical and medical device packaging demands the highest quality variable coding.Videojet can provide IQ/OQ validation packages and printers that facilitate adherence to 21CFR Part II technical controls to help meet your documentation needs.

Printing on Plastic Parts

With over 40 years of ink development experience, Videojet offers a range of high adhesion inks for marking on plastic and rubber parts. Colored and pigmented inks provide high contrast codes on darker surfaces for easier readability.

Printing on Plastic bags

Videojet offers versatile coding method for irregular or curved surfaces such as bread bags. Variety of specialty inks including odorless and non-MEK help deliver consistent and high quality coding

Laser Printing on PVC and Other Plastic Pipe

Laser marking solutions with large marking fields to enable high speed operation and optimized power settings to improve laser tube life

Variety of Videojet solutions available for printing on plastic depending on the desired mark effect

Continuous Ink Jet Printers

Fluid based, non-contact printing of up to fives lines of text, linear and 2D bar codes, printed on a variety of plastic packaging. Over 300 different ink formulations to aid code adhesion, durability and legibility on plastics.

Thermal Transfer Overprinters:

A digitally controlled printhead precisely melts ink from a ribbon directly onto flexible plastic films to provide high-resolution, real-time prints.

Laser Marking Solutions

A beam of infrared light focused and steered with a series of carefully controlled small mirrors to create marks where the heat of the beam interacts with the plastic packaging surface.

Videojet® 1880 +

Seamless, non-contact industrial printing for almost any substrate, including flat or curved surfaces
Reduce downtime with the Videojet MAXIMiZE™ advanced diagnostics suite
Go longer between printhead cleanings with intelligent start-stop sequence

Videojet® 3640

60W CO2 laser with widest marking field
Mark speed capability of up to 2,100 characters per second
High-speed serialisation for pharmaceutical and tobacco applications

Videojet DataFlex® 6530 & 6330

Minimal wear parts are easy to change out, improving production line uptime
Print speeds of up to 1000mm/s and throughputs up to 700 ppm.
Designed to withstand tough production line environments

What Our Customers Say

""With the six Videojet DataFlex printers in my facility, we can mark 250,000 bags with one roll of ribbon. All I have to do to change the code is tap the touch screen, create the price and then the expiration date. It takes only a minute. Using thermal transfer printing means operators have one less thing to be concerned about.""

Bob Epley, Packaging Maintenance Manager,Utz Quality Foods