Extruded material, cables, and wire printer offers
Wire printer series for 100% permanent, readable codes, on all types of cable and wire, and coding and marking for extruded plastic products
YOUR CHALLENGES
There are strict regulations for messages on products when it comes to marking on extruded material, whether you need a wire printer, or to mark on cables, pipes or tubes, or any extruded plastics. You need a reliable marking solution to ensure compliance and traceability. This is particularly challenging since the application requires:
- Codes that withstand cold and heat, prolonged fluid immersion, vulcanization, etc. do not transfer from one substrate to another. Ensuring that coding remains legible over time and use is a significant challenge.
- Technology able to mark consistently on round, flexible, and often uneven surfaces, while coping with a high variability in the composition of substrates.
- Managing many complex messages of differing lengths and languages on often very narrow substrates.
- Minimizing overall running costs and operator error to maximize productivity. You may also need to mark at very high speeds.
Fortunately, we can help.
OUR SOLUTIONS
Markem-Imaje has decades of experience working with major extrusion manufacturers to cater to the coding needs of the industry, engineering dedicated solutions for every requirement in terms of durability, legibility, and regulatory compliance.
Our extrusion sector offer encompasses cable, wire, tube, and pipe printing solutions, as well as marking on all extruded plastics. Our solutions include a range of continuous inkjet (CIJ) coders specifically built to cater for every extrusion application and need. They are designed to deliver an optimum high-speed printing performance with an advanced operating system, plus a wide range of dedicated extrusion ink offerings to address all coding quality and environmental demands of this application.
Our fiber, CO2, and UV coders deliver perfect, permanent ink-free print quality at high speeds on a variety of extrusion substrates that are designed to meet your every requirement.
Our solutions help you to reduce your total cost of ownership (TCO), increase productivity and avoid unexpected downtime.
Simply leave your e-mail address in the form to be contacted by one of our experts who can provide detailed information and can help you find the best solution for your application, whether it is a wire printer or coder for cables, pipes or different varieties of extruded products.
What our customers say about our solutions for extrusion
"CoLOS® has allowed us to be much more efficient, reducing line equipment times and making it possible to implement new solutions such as automated metrics, fewer ink types, and less waste thanks to more ecological containers and less energy consumption."
Nicola Marchesin
IT Manager at Mebra Plastik
"Markem-Image’s combined solution “has effectively halved the number of printers required for production so far, significantly reducing energy, consumable use, and associated waste."
Marco Boi
Production Manager at Cables RCT
"It was a tall order but thankfully the Markem-Imaje team was up to the challenge."
Russ Brown
Operations Director at Peak Pipe Systems
"A few months ago, we introduced a new ink (MC469) by Markem-Imaje that gives good results on most colors, avoiding having to set up several printers on one line. It’s a really effective solution."
Enrique López
Director of Planning at Cables RCT
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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. Looking for a partner to develop your product’s digital roadmap? Markem-Imaje end-to-end solutions include leading solutions for supply chain traceability and authentication through our Systech brand and an ultimate consumer engagement experience with Blue Bite.
Recognized for being a market leader in extrusion coding, Markem-Imaje continuous inkJet (CIJ) printers have been engineered to bring you all the specific features you need to code your pipes, wires, cables, and extruded plastics. We offer varied models designed according to your specific requirements from low to the most high-speed production lines. Our range includes the new 9750 E range with industry-first innovations for this segment as well as consumables to match all extrusion marking needs.
- Extrusion-dedicated printer models engineered specifically for the industry and with a customized user interface.
- High uptime and OEE.
- Optimized TCO and reduces environmental impact.
- A wide variety of specialty inks capable of withstanding the most challenging environmental conditions.
- Excels at high speeds.
Markem-Imaje 9330
CIJ printer designed for light to medium-duty production lines. The cost-efficient 9330 will cover all your basic extrusion product coding needs and is available with an extrusion-dedicated yellow semi-pigmented permanent and MEK-free ink.
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CIJ printer designed for medium-duty production lines. Our next generation 9750 range delivers clear, customizable, traceable black or colored codes, including 2D codes (QR and DotCodes).
Markem-Imaje 9750 E
CIJ printer designed for heavy-duty production lines and the most challenging environments. Specially innovated for the extrusion sector the 9750 E provides high-speed and high-contrast codes with no migration, guaranteeing resistance.
View Markem-Imaje 9750 EMarkem-Imaje 9750 E+
CIJ printer designed for the highest production needs and the most complex extrusion applications. The 9750 E+ provides additional flexibility and convenience via a revolutionary ink circuit. It provides both standard codes or pigmented contrast printing.
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CIJ printer specially designed for heavy-duty wire and optical fiber applications, this coder’s enhanced jet speed control brings consistent high-quality code legibility throughout the production run, even at high speeds. The 9570 Ew+ features a dedicated printhead designed specifically to address the stretching of printed messages.
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CIJ extrusion sector consumables
Markem-Imaje has a complete MEK-free inks portfolio designed for the extrusion sector and is within the few manufacturers to lower volatile organic compound emissions (VOCs) for MEK-free inks.
- Our consumables cut use and VOCs by up to 40-60%, depending on the mode used, and by up to 35%, even for inks with MEKs in consumable-saving mode.
- Black, white, orange, blue, green, red, yellow, and silver inks that ensure code contrast, adhesion, and resistance, regardless of substrate type (LSZH, PP, PE, PVC).
- The 9750 E Series specialty non-migrating inks meet the most challenging applications and storage conditions including resistance to high levels of heat, UV-light, automobile fluids, underwater conditions, and vulcanization.
Our SmartLase ® Fiber, CO2, and UV laser printers, the latter available in 3- or 5-watt models, provide high-quality, permanent codes on wire, cable, and other extrusion materials even in high-speed applications. With patented Intelli’Arc® scribing, paired with onboard Intelli’Cool®, our lasers deliver crisp, high-contrast codes with greater uptime and reliability than other lasers.
Benefits of Markem-Imaje laser technology:
- High uptime and OEE.
- Low TCO and reduced environmental impact.
- High coding speed.
- High-quality codes.
- Chemical-free.
- Permanent marking.
SmartLase ® C150 and C350
Laser printer for medium to high-speed lines. It sets the standard for best-in-class laser printer for extruded construction materials. Designed to deliver permanent, crisp, clear and traceable codes. Ideal for both intermittent or continuous lines.
View SmartLase® C150 and C350SmartLase ® 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.
View SmartLase® C600SmartLase ® F250
The compact SmartLase F250 20-watt delivers high speed, crisp, permanent coding on a variety of extrusion substrates and diameters and is suitable for all extrusion applications, limited only by character height and allowable print area.
View SmartLase® F250SmartLase ® UV500
Laser printer designed for high-density materials like wraps and films, our SmartLase® UV500 5-watt UV laser delivers the most precise, high-quality coding with the added benefit of minimal heat transfer.
2D codes have already become an indispensable method of connecting your products to the Internet, facilitating vast amounts of product data and customization 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 the US FDA’s FSMA 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 optimization 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 to software solutions supporting leading brands and retailers around the world to define and implement their connected product roadmap. Connect with us to talk to an expert or read more on our 2D solutions dedicated page!
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“In conjunction with our system, we ensure that we can send brand, item number, batch number, and more to our marking systems without errors. “
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Andrea Boccolini – VFFS Technical Sales Support Manager @ IMA Ilapak
“Our machines are exported around the globe: IMA IIapak has always found Markem-Imaje to be an excellent partner capable of supporting our clients in every part of the world with widespread support and prompt service in the supply of spare parts”.“
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“The Markem-Imaje solution proposed to Bioplants was interesting because we could choose the criteria we needed: Before that, we were using a labeler, so one consumable item was created every time we labeled a package. Today we use hot melt ink directly projected on the cardboard allows us to add traceability to the packages, which we did not have before.”“
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