Automated label printer applicator

Weber’s 3500 label printer and label applicator is for pressure-sensitive label printing and automated label application systems.

In addition to offering a broad selection of high-quality print engines featuring a range of print resolutions and label dispensing speeds, the device is now available with optional RFID print-encode engines.

The series automatically both prints and applies bar code labels to a variety of surfaces such as boxes, products, cartons and pallets as they continue along a production line or are placed ready for dispatch.

The labels can be applied to the top, side and bottom or across the corner for exact placement in the most convenient position for scanning and reading.

The units have configuration options of either blow tamp, direct tamp, swing tamp and twin-tamp label application and can be configured for corner wrap label placement using an articulated application arm.

The modular design ensures that the system can be reconfigured to address subsequent print-and-apply labelling eg, changing from front label application to side label.

New to the series of label printer applicators and standard with the 5300 series is the remote locatable unit controller, connected by a 3 m long umbilical cable and can be positioned anywhere within range to provide access and monitoring of the unit’s main functions.

The applicator has intelligent computerised control of the label unwind and rewind dimensions to ensure that they match the ribbon supply at the same rate.

Multiple printing formats can be stored in the upgraded system memory, making it easier for an operator to select a job directly from the applicator instead of downloading a computer file.

Browser-based monitoring has been included to display the full status of all operational functions and configurations by logging onto a web page that is unique to each 5300 unit. The printer can also now interface with many types of external PLCs including Allen-Bradley and Siemens.