Glass
Glass is not absorbent, usually has a smooth surface and is frequently processed in a curved form. Industrial inkjet printers from LEIBINGER master these challenges posed by glass and provide permanent and efficient glass marking and coding. The non-contact printout allows products to be applied on the fly and/or in wet or dusty production environments. In addition, LEIBINGER camera systems meet the highest demands of verification requirements. The LKS 5 reads and checks both fixed and variable data, text segments and barcodes.
Typical markings
- CE marking
- Expiration dates
- Barcodes
- Characters and text
- 2D codes, e.g. QR codes, DataMatrix codes, etc.
- Batch numbers/lot numbers
- Company logos
- Lottery codes/numbers
Materials
- Glass bottles/glass parts
- Glassware made from silicon dioxide/acrylic glass/Plexiglas
- Metallic glassware (amorphous metals)
- Window glassware (incl. spacers)
- Beverage and food glassware (beverages, bottles, jars, etc.)/packaging glasses
- Non-returnable bottles
- Returnable bottles/recyclable bottles
- Clear glass/brown glass/green glass
- Technical glasses (test tubes, Petri dishes, etc.)
- Solar panels/photovoltaic systems
Examples of typical applications
- Removable marking for returnable bottles/recyclable bottles (alkaline solution)
- Traceability/track and trace/identification
- Very high durability for the inks used
- Print with light contrast inks on dark backgrounds
- Use of (soft) pigmented inks (opaque inks), such as for marking brown or green beer bottles
- Use of UV-resistant inks when marking
- Use of FDA-compliant inks
- Marking in wet production environments
Typical print monitoring tasks
- Print monitoring/verification/image processing of various printouts
- Monitoring the presence of items, such as dispensed products (cards or samples)
- Reliable monitoring of inkjet fonts (printouts of small character inkjet printers)