CoLOS® Industrial Software
Connected Packaging and Packaging Intelligence software
Our Packaging Intelligence solutions combine our proven coding and marking expertise with our experience to deliver complete turnkey solutions for achieving the maximum packaging line efficiency, trouble-free data management, and supply chain traceability all the way to the consumer’s hands. CoLOS will significantly enhance your productivity and quality control while also addressing the challenges of waste and costs in an ever-changing manufacturing environment, creating a smarter business.
Thermal Transfer Overprinting or TTO offers
A technology specially designed for flexible film packaging printing with our leading SmartDate® Series. With a typical output of 300 dpi, TTO offers very high print quality that blends in with the overall design of the pre-printed film.
SmartDate X30
Designed for low- to medium-speed production. The SmartDate ® X30 is a robust one-box solution that can easily be installed on your line or integrated by OEMs. With unmatched reliability, this is an ideal coder for flexible films.
SmartDate X45
Designed for easy integration into medium-duty equipment, the SmartDate ® X45 prints at up to 600 mm per second, allowing for 220 printed packs per minute at 300 dpi. It features a 10.1” color user interface that simplifies tracking OEE data.
SmartDate X65
Designed for direct integration into heavy-duty equipment and demanding applications, ideal for ultrafast, high-resolution flexible packaging printing at up to 455 printed packs or 1,800 mm per second. A unique ‘relative motion’ feature ensures that a code is completed after unplanned line stoppages, ensuring compliance and product traceability.
Continuous inkjet or CIJ printer offers
With more than four decades of experience in Continuous Inkjet (CIJ printer) innovation, Markem-Imaje has a full range of coders for flexible packaging printing. Our vast ink portfolio, including competitively priced MEK-free inks and reduced VOC varieties for reduced environmental impact, makes Markem-Imaje CIJ printers the most flexible and one of the most reliable on the market today. Designed for maximum uptime and ease-of-use, our CIJ range simplifies daily activities and makes your coding process seamless.
We offer a full range of proprietary inks to match your flexible packaging printing requirements, including MEK-free options. Our consumables range includes tape-resistant inks with a high level of resistance to water, cleaning agents and the pasteurization process, ideal for food packaging printing e.g. pouches. Also available, and dedicated to the confectionary sector, is a fast-drying MEK-free solution. A high-adhesion ink primed for monolayer and recyclable flexible plastics that improves performance and meets stringent compliance regulations is also available.
9750
Designed for medium to heavy-duty production lines, for digitalization and traceability with its unique 24-pin interface delivering clear, customizable, traceable black or colored codes, including 2D codes (QR and DotCodes), in a modular format which is easy-to-use.
9750 E SERIES
Designed for the most challenging FMCG coding operations, the market-first 9750 Expert Series of CIJ printers are fast and have been innovated to mark tiny surfaces, deliver enhanced 2D messages, including QR codes, and only require one type of coder for dye or pigment prints.
9330
Designed for light to medium duty production lines, the 9330 series offers versatility, cost-effectiveness and longevity, covering all your basic coding needs, with the capacity to print for more than 8,000 hours non-stop.
LCIJ offers
Our easy-to-integrate, operate, and maintain high resolution piezo Large Character Inkjet (LCIJ) printers and our non-hazardous, solvent free Touch Dry® hot melt ink that solidifies on contact and produces darker, high-quality codes. Our LCIJ printers with Touch Dry® ink are the ideal solutions for marking and coding, including GS1 compliant 1D and 2D barcodes and logos, all with lower TCO.
Markem-Imaje Touch Dry® small character inkjet consumables
5016 Touch Dry® hot melt ink developed specifically for small character applications printing on flexible film. 5016 ink is highly resistant to rubbing and pick-off providing long lasting, high-quality codes running on high-speed, high-volume production lines.
5800
Offering a lower-cost solution and employing the same instantly solid Touch Dry® ink technology for medium throughput applications, the 5800 is equipped with unique printheads that use smaller ink blocks inserted directly into the printhead and allow for the use of up to 4 different colors of ink on the same line.
5940 G
Using Touch Dry® ink technology for consistently scannable 1D and 2D compliant barcodes with maximized uptime and great throughput thanks to its larger ink supply, the 5940 G is built to be reliable even in tough industrial environments and features Intelli’Flow® technology to keep printhead jets clear.
Thermal inkjet or TIJ printer offers
The Markem-Imaje range of thermal inkjet (TIJ) printers offer high-quality compliant barcodes printed directly onto films, contact-free. They require little maintenance and excel on intermittent or low to mid-volume production lines.
1050
Offers precision print control at exceptional value-for-money producing codes from 12.7 mm to 50.8 mm high, plus the ability to print readable 1D and 2D barcodes. The printer is low-maintenance with snap-in and snap-out cartridges.
Laser offers
Our SmartLase ® fiber, UV and CO2 laser printers provide high-quality, permanent codes for flexible film packaging applications. With patented Intelli’Arc® scribing, paired with on-board Intelli’Cool®, our lasers deliver crisp, high-contrast codes with greater uptime and reliability than others.
SmartLase C150 and C350
30-watt laser printer designed for medium to high-speed intermittent or continuous lines, the SmartLase ® C150 and C350 30-watt CO2 lasers deliver permanent, crisp, clear and traceable codes on flexible packaging, at up to 150,000 products per hour.
SmartLase F250
Laser marker designed for high-speed applications, excelling on high-density plastic and metalized materials, the F250 20-watt fiber laser offers superb code quality, even with the increasing code complexity associated with 1D and 2D codes.
SmartLase C600
Laser printer for high-speed extrusion coding, even with the increasing code complexity of 1D and 2D codes. The C600 delivers superb code quality and more power, all in an easy-to-integrate and easy-to-operate industrial grade unit.
SmartLase UV500
Laser printer designed for high-speed on high-density materials including flexible films, our SmartLase® UV500 5-watt UV laser delivers the most precise, high-quality coding with the added benefit of minimal heat transfer.
2D code solutions
2D codes have already become an indispensable method of connecting your products to the Internet, facilitating vast amounts of product data and customisation possibilities. They are also simultaneously becoming essential to comply with new regulations and standards, especially concerning traceability, including for the GS1 Digital Link, Digital Product Passport and regulations. The advantages of 2D codes for boosting brand loyalty through the supply chain are unrivaled. The possibilities for promoting sustainability efforts, packaging design efficiencies, and retail process optimisation are enviable.
With the GS1 set to begin phasing out 1D barcodes in favor of 2D codes like the QR and DataMatrix from 2027, at Markem-Imaje, we have GS1 Digital Link-compliant 2D codes at the heart of our innovations from our coding hardware, vision solutions to software solutions.