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Siegwerk’s Laser Sensitive Printing Ink Facilitates Laser-Aided Tagging of Packaging

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By: DAVID SAVASTANO

Editor, Ink World Magazine

Information on product packaging – such as expiry date, price, batch codes, country or language specific declarations – has to meet the increasing demands concerning packaging. In the past, on white or very light-colored packaging especially, the laser code was difficult to read, sometimes only with high-end equipment. Siegwerk puts things right now with new laser sensitive printing inks. The laser-readable mark is generated through the interaction of a CO2 laser with Datalase pig...

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